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Re: Tiler: Build Images with Images

#12
This looks so cool! The results are great.

The '@'-symbol derived Github logo and the paperclip pie are fantastic. This could easily be used to create high quality logos or t-shirt designs.

Kudos to the author(s).

Re: Tiler: Build Images with Images

#16

Doesn't someone have a patent on this? I vaguely remember this at one point.

I remember the same, IIRC it was US6137498A that was referred to. That one seems to describe a pretty specific process for the generation so I don't know how generally it applies.

Wikipedia appears to also list a few other patents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_mosaic#Trademark_...

Re: Tiler: Build Images with Images

#18

Looks cool. Can someone give an overview of how it works.

OP might be the same person. But, the original creator posted a short explanation here https://www.reddit.com/r/GraphicsProgramming/comments/d10kcl...

I am not the author. Found it via reddit. The same link you posted.

Re: Tiler: Build Images with Images

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From the ‘About,’ I thought that it would use various images of different colors.

It does?

As far as I can see, it uses the same image, painting it different colors. I think it would be cooler to mix various images but with the scaling. There are plenty of ‘mosaic’ tools like that, however they mostly use images of the same size, essentially as uniform pixels.
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