Fun With Photomosaics

We’ve all seen a Photomosaic before, an image that is produced by combining many other smaller images. They’re really cool. I recently discovered a cool Mac program called MacOSaiX that makes them, and it’s really cool too.

Here’s an example…

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The program allws you to identify source photos from a local drive, a Google image search, or by using random glyphs from your font collection. In this image I used my local iPhoto library and the program used 4,411 photos to produce this mosaic which is measures as 84.1% in ‘Mosaic Quality’. And check out the detail; the trim on the shed in the background, the dogs furry tail, the shadowy patches of snow. Way cool.

It takes a bit of time, and I’m still on the quest for producing a really high-quality photomosaic. But just playing with it is fascinating… the program I mean. Give it a try.