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Make Huge, High-Quality Photo Mosaics in Linux
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 3:30 AM on December 12, 2007
The fsckin w/ linux blog points Linux users to a really cool tool that creates detailed (and extremely huge) photo mosaics out of your own pictures. All that's required is a folder full of pictures, a free command line tool named metapixel and, well, enough memory to process and open the output picture if you just copy and past the blog's instructions (try knocking the "=-scale=X" value down a bit). We've shown you web sites and Windows programs that get similar results, but metapixel puts out results that are ready for your local print shop. Using the linked guide requires a free download of metapixel, which is available in some Linux repositories or as a download.
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Tank
Posted 12:17 PM 11/12/07
the application in the windows article is no longer available. :(
"We regret to inform you that we are no longer supporting or distributing Centarsia, due to the threat of legal action by Robert Silvers, the holder of a patent related to the technology that we used in Centarsia. We do not necessarily believe that the patent is applicable in this case but we have neither the time, interest, or money to pursue a legal "hashing out", so we are complying with the cease and desist request."
Tank
Tim
Posted 7:26 PM 11/12/07
@Tank
Check out AndreaMosaic for Windows. The learning curve is not *too* difficult, but it takes some planning to get a good result.
Tim
ecobore
Posted 7:03 PM 11/12/07
Does anybody know of a current mac program to do these mosaics? The very old one I have will no longer run... Thanks
ecobore
fildawg
Posted 9:37 AM 12/12/07
@ecobore: Try MacOSaiX: [homepage.mac.com]
fildawg
fildawg
Posted 9:28 AM 12/12/07
I use a mac program called MacOSaiX - [homepage.mac.com]
fildawg
PCheese
Posted 5:25 AM 12/12/07
Ecobore - Try MacOSaiX.
PCheese