(teeny tiny pictures)

[da]

Yesterday, some friends and I were talking about photo-montages, and we started figuring out how to make them. It turns out not to be very tough, at least if you cheat and don't use the clever ideas we came up with yesterday.


Bird's eye view:



Close-up:


I won't link to the big file, because it's f'ing ginormous, and this is only a proof-of-concept.


So I need to use a larger collection of more photos; and I also need to properly deal with colour-matching the photos to the pixels they replace. (One of the ways I'm cheating is by tinting the little photos as I go).

I'm surprised at how well this works, though.

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[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Of course, that idea is patented. :-)

The interesting mathematical question is whether it's easy to do the picking of pixel replacers efficiently. We can talk about this by phone if you like.

But that's very cute. (Of course, it does help that roverthedog is very cute...)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

For pixel replacers, we were planning to map each source-image into a 3-d space for dominant colour, then use those as the palette for the big image. Possibly disallowing reusing images and starting at the brightest colours in the big image.

Though the easiest is RGB colour, it'd be nice to go into a better colourspace.

Eric is currently working on subdividing the photos into 5x5 regions and getting the dominant colo(u)r for each region, and doing some sort of best-fit match to the original.

Any suggestions are welcome. :)