The Rasterbator - Create huge, rasterized images from any picture.
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#2Pretty neat- used to do this with a b&w copier when I was on the newspaper staff back in high school. We had stuff like giant pictures of David Letterman up on the wall. None of it really made sense but it was funny to us. Gonna try it with my printer.
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#3The name puts me off a little bit. I think "The Rasterizer" or something would have been better off.
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#4This is sort of confusing. Any picture you can upload to that service is already a "raster" picture (as opposed to a vector picture). I think what they mean is that they just blow up really huge?
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#5This seems like complete spam to me :/ Am I missing something here?
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#6This is sort of confusing. Any picture you can upload to that service is already a "raster" picture (as opposed to a vector picture). I think what they mean is that they just blow up really huge?
I think the important part is that it's half-toned (little dots of varying radii according to color and intensity) rather than just making each pixel into one big square. So really its a misnomer. Should be halftonabator or ditherbator, if only those rhymed with masturbate. (TEE HEE!)
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#7Guys, you got to try this. It works perfectly. Just upload a really huge photo, 'rasterize', then print it.
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#8I found this a while ago when I was looking for something to break up a map into one-page segments so I could have a giant map. Never did find an ideal solution.
Anyone know another tool like this that doesn't convert the image to half-tone? I want to use one of those blank world maps from Wikipedia to print out as a giant tiled map to assemble on the wall.
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#9Imho it produces cool results with large dot size and relatively small number of sheets, with some space between sheets. Here's one example:
http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/1267/rasterbationdt5.png
And if you do this, use some sturdy material to print on. Standard copier paper as it just looks crappy.
edit: Thinking of it, maybe canvas prints would be cool. 10in square prints, maybe 1in apart...
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#10This seems like complete spam to me :/ Am I missing something here?
How is it any spammier than any of the umpteen million other links to one-off idea websites that we get around here? Because the submitter didn't call it their "startup"?