{"id":38796816,"date":"2004-12-03T15:48:55","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T15:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2004\/12\/fun-with-photom.html"},"modified":"2013-04-11T03:22:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T03:22:06","slug":"200412fun-with-photom-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2004\/12\/03\/200412fun-with-photom-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Photomosaics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all seen a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Photomosaic\">Photomosaic<\/a> before, an image that is produced by combining many other smaller images.  They&#8217;re really cool.  I recently discovered a cool Mac program called <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/knarf\/MacOSaiX\/\">MacOSaiX<\/a> that makes them, and it&#8217;s really cool too.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/images\/colleen_cody_mosaic_match.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/images\/colleen_cody_mosaic_match.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>(click for larger version)<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/images\/colleen_cody_mosaic_match.jpg\">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 &#8216;Mosaic Quality&#8217;.  And check out the detail; the trim on the shed in the background, the dogs furry tail, the shadowy patches of snow.  Way cool.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/images\/colleen_cody_mosaic_match.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It takes a bit of time, and I&#8217;m still on the quest for producing a really high-quality photomosaic.  But just playing with it is fascinating&#8230; the program I mean.  Give it a try.<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all seen a Photomosaic before, an image that is produced by combining many other smaller images. They&#8217;re really cool. I recently discovered a cool Mac program called MacOSaiX that makes them, and it&#8217;s really cool too. Here&#8217;s an example&#8230; (c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,44,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38796816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversions","category-photos","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMP6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38796816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354629,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796816\/revisions\/173354629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38796816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38796816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38796816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}