What do you call large portraits where individual pixels of the portrait are actually smaller photographs? I’ve seen this only a few times recently in magazines. For example, the large portrait is of a person but each pixel of this portrait is actually a smaller photograph.
Just to clarify, its not each pixel that is a smaller photograph but a smaller region of the image. Usually, the smaller images are a small set of pictures that are randomly repeated throughout the larger image, with a color cast added to each picture to match the color information of the part of the large image.
When viewed from far, you’re seeing the general color cast of the smaller image but can’t make out the details, so it merges to form a large image.
This needs to be done by a computer so it can randomly arrange the photos and color them appropriately.
If you want more info, history, and a link to the software necessary to create photomosaics, look at the provided wikipedia link.
January 28th, 2010 at 12:21 am
thumbnails?
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January 28th, 2010 at 12:35 am
photomosaic pictures
Aren’t they neat?
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January 28th, 2010 at 1:15 am
Just to clarify, its not each pixel that is a smaller photograph but a smaller region of the image. Usually, the smaller images are a small set of pictures that are randomly repeated throughout the larger image, with a color cast added to each picture to match the color information of the part of the large image.
When viewed from far, you’re seeing the general color cast of the smaller image but can’t make out the details, so it merges to form a large image.
This needs to be done by a computer so it can randomly arrange the photos and color them appropriately.
If you want more info, history, and a link to the software necessary to create photomosaics, look at the provided wikipedia link.
References :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photomosaic