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The Rasterbator - Create huge, rasterized images from any picture.

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Re: The Rasterbator - Create huge, rasterized images from any picture.

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post #4

This 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?

Where does it say you can't upload vector images? And, really, we're dinging someone for coming up with a product name that isn't perfectly descriptive now?

Re: The Rasterbator - Create huge, rasterized images from any picture.

#12
post #5

This 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"?

This has been around for a while and isn't really spammy, people have been using it to plaster blown up art on their dorm walls

Re: The Rasterbator - Create huge, rasterized images from any picture.

#14
post #5

This 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"?

It just seems a bit trivial to me. Surely this has been done a thousand times already.

Re: The Rasterbator - Create huge, rasterized images from any picture.

#15
post #4

This 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?

Where does it say you can't upload vector images? And, really, we're dinging someone for coming up with a product name that isn't perfectly descriptive now?

Surely the name was supposed to sound like "masturbator". I don't think it can have mass appeal with that name, odd choice.

Re: The Rasterbator - Create huge, rasterized images from any picture.

#17
i did a 50 A4 sheet picture with this of grandmaster flash. i used a tiny source picture (less than vga). I took the time to trim the edges and tape all the sheets together first. this made sticking it to the wall a simpler task.

if i could have done anything differently i'd have used a printer that could do borderless printing. it looked awesome, would def recommend.

Re: The Rasterbator - Create huge, rasterized images from any picture.

#18
post #4

This 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?

Where does it say you can't upload vector images? And, really, we're dinging someone for coming up with a product name that isn't perfectly descriptive now?

I made this great new device called the "Automatic gasoline car to electric car converter." It takes your gasoline car and cleans the outside of it with soap and water! It shines when it comes out the other side!

What do you mean the name is misleading? Are you really dinging me for coming up with a product name that isn't perfectly descriptive??

Re: The Rasterbator - Create huge, rasterized images from any picture.

#19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where does it say you can't upload vector images? And, really, we're dinging someone for coming up with a product name that isn't perfectly descriptive now?

I made this great new device called the "Automatic gasoline car to electric car converter." It takes your gasoline car and cleans the outside of it with soap and water! It shines when it comes out the other side! What do you mean the name is misleading? Are you really dinging me for coming up with a product name that isn't perfectly descriptive??

You should email 37Signals about your profound disappointment at how ineffective their "Campfire" product is for making S'mores.

Re: The Rasterbator - Create huge, rasterized images from any picture.

#20
post #8

I 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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I believe some of the more recent Photoshops have that functionality

Failing that: Illustrator can open pdf, and you can scale the output to the desired dimensions and carefully segment them yourself.

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