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updated thu 7 jul 05

 

jlutz on wed 6 jul 05


http://www.andreaplanet.com/mosaic/starrynight/

This image is a photomosaic of the famous painting 'Starry Night'. The
image is made with over 210.000 tiny photographs and a total size of over
1.500.000.000 points in other words it is a 1.5 Gigapixel Image. Click over
the image (Zoom In) until you start to see the tiny images.


Jean Lutz
Prescott, AZ

Carl Finch on wed 6 jul 05


At 07:28 AM 7/6/2005, jlutz wrote:

>http://www.andreaplanet.com/mosaic/starrynight/
>
>This image is a photomosaic of the famous painting 'Starry Night'. The
>image is made with over 210.000 tiny photographs and a total size of over
>1.500.000.000 points in other words it is a 1.5 Gigapixel Image. Click over
>the image (Zoom In) until you start to see the tiny images.

"Photo Montage" will do this for any image (like Starry Night), using your
very own snapshots as those "tiny image" building blocks.

See it here: http://www.arcsoft.com/en/products/photomontage/

The process is automatic. You input the image to be mosaic-ed, plus a
bunch of other images for the tiles. The program does the rest.

It's been around since 1998. I did one back then--my granddaughter's
school portrait using family snapshots. In order to get a good finished
product, the "tiny images" must be really tiny (the program resizes them
for you). But then to print the result so that the tile images are
individually discernable requires going to poster-size. As I recall,
Arcsoft offered poster printing service.

--Carl
in Medford, Oregon