Tuesday 28 September 2004
Marcus: Photomosaics of George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Some choice, politically-motivated photos are used to create the images. (Via).
dave:
Don't want to sound like an ars*hole, but these are crap. They are not mosaics at all. They are just a load of photos shrunk down with another opaque image laid over the top. Bah! Shoddy left-wing bollocks. Bah!
Marcus:
I can see what you're saying (ie colour tones/brightness look they've been altered to suit where necessary) but that's what happens with most photomosaics. All the ones I've ever seen, anyway. It seems to be an acceptable stretch of the "photomosaic" idea.
Marcus:
Metapixel is free photomosaic-generating software that looks pretty good, and seems to have a "cheat" feature that I suspect does as I've described above.
justin:
I've with Dave on this - the first actual photomosaics were interesting, presumably with the agregate brightness of each frame being assigned a pixel shade and some clever software doing the rest. Justin says: But if they think they can juts do some crap semi-opaque image on top of another in order to trick us into thinking they are clever then why dont we just let 13 year old pregnant criminals live in Buckingham palace?
