If we combine this with canvas printing, we have an art business.
it's hardly a David Hockney
Even less so a Harley Davidson.
Show HN: I made a tool to generate photomosaics with your pictures
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#22Excited to check this out. Did you write your own library for this or use something like OpenSeaDragon behind-the-scenes?
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#23If we combine this with canvas printing, we have an art business.
There are a plethora of print shops with API access to set this kind of thing up. The problem these days is pricing, specifically shipping. While people may be willing to pay for the work itself, shipping canvasses or framed prints gets expensive fast. This is why so many artists and photographers who sell their photos just sell posters... they are cheap to ship and don't give people sticker shock.
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#25Nice! Almost 20 years ago I paid good money to get this done. I see that your method also uses a lot of tinting and even overlaying the original image. Would be great though if this was adjustable via sliders! Thank You for making this available local-/privacy-first & in-browser!
No worries! This is adjustable via sliders (in the bottom left area)
Thanks for the kind words!
Re: Show HN: I made a tool to generate photomosaics with your pictures
#26Excited to check this out. Did you write your own library for this or use something like OpenSeaDragon behind-the-scenes?
This is completely my own library running in the cloud. Started as a little experiment for myself and now it's blown out into this
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#27Very cool. I actually created a shareware application that rendered Photomosaics 25 years ago! Here is a link to "Mosaic Magic" from the Wayback Engine: https://web.archive.org/web/20010405175706/http://fishsoft.c... I managed to make a decent amount of spending money from that application during my University years. One interesting lesson I learnt was about enterprise pricing. I think I charged ~$20 for Mosaic Magic…
I just read up on Robert Silvers based on this. He had an interesting career. Really unfortunate he was a patent troll...
Re: Show HN: I made a tool to generate photomosaics with your pictures
#28Very cool. I actually created a shareware application that rendered Photomosaics 25 years ago! Here is a link to "Mosaic Magic" from the Wayback Engine: https://web.archive.org/web/20010405175706/http://fishsoft.c... I managed to make a decent amount of spending money from that application during my University years. One interesting lesson I learnt was about enterprise pricing. I think I charged ~$20 for Mosaic Magic…
I used Mosaic Magic back in my high school journalism class to design a yearbook cover 20+ years ago! Turned out great - it won some kind of award iirc.
Re: Show HN: I made a tool to generate photomosaics with your pictures
#29Excited to check this out. Did you write your own library for this or use something like OpenSeaDragon behind-the-scenes?
This is completely my own library running in the cloud. Started as a little experiment for myself and now it's blown out into this
I would potentially pay a licensing fee for the library if it could be used in other apps (and commercial settings).
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#30While this is nice enough, it bothers me that these don't look much like "art". If you look at real roman mosaics, they do not place points in a grid - they use a technique called "opus vermiculatum" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_vermiculatum ... snaking the tiles around so that there is a flow to it; the overall effect is much better. I think that'd be possible to automate too. I was doing something related ove…
> While this is nice enough, it bothers me that these don't look much like "art".
The author didn't invent this style. The first thing I thought of was the poster for the Truman Show. https://artofthemovies.co.uk/products/the-truman-show-1998-m... The site seems to make that happen quite well.