I have a love/hate relationship with Slashdot. They do occasionally point me at interesting stories, some of which I shamelessly swipe for this site. But often they post stories with an editorial slant which doesn’t even border on absurd. No better example can be the story today entitled
Will CGI Collapse the Hollywood Economy?
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Daily Archives: 8/11/2002
Image Mosaics
Yesterday I set my webcam grabbing images from television. I made some modifications to the frame grabber to archive time stamped versions of each image. The net result: a big directory of image files. I got it in my head to try to use these images to make image mosaics. These are images which are made up of small subimages, but when viewed from a distance display another picture. After an hour of programming, I produced
this (highly shrunken) result. The final fullsize image is 6144×8640.
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