Mac, now there is a thing. If it was windoze I would not touch Cnet with a bargepole, but Mac might be ok.
Going to use Andrea? I have tried it but since I use Linux, tend to go for metapixel
They both work in similar ways, convert
and colour index images into libraries of tiles. Andrea outputs jpegs and metapixel png's.
Remember that each pixel (or 2) will be replaced by a tile chosen by colour. That is what I meant by the result can be very large. I remember the only time I crashed linux was by not paying attention to the image size. Tried to open a monster size generated png, I could see the memory filling up, then the swap partition filling, then locked solid
If you want to try my collection of tiles, I have converted them from png to jpg to save space and zipped them.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/w4s3p ... _tiles.zipAs it says, 120x120 pix tiles, around 3500 in 5 folders. All different sorts of images. The zip is about 20 MB.
These are not indexed so
you will still have to run them through Andrea. There is info on the Andrea site.
Other ways of making tiles. I have some success taking a small grayscale copy of the image and recolouring to produce a set of tiles. That was how the Wilbur image was made. Each letter was run through this 'quick&dirty' bash file.
#!/bin/bash
#
# uses imagemagick to produce 2197 (13*13*13) coloured tiles for the metapixel application
# for speed / disk space prepare a greyscale tile the same size as the tile required
# this greyscale image picture.png is copied by adjusting the RGB values on each loop.
#
#
for r in $(seq 10 20 250) # steps from 10 to 250 in increments of 20
do
for g in $(seq 10 20 250)
do
for b in $(seq 10 20 250)
do
echo "picture$r$g$b.png" # this line only to show something is happening
convert picture.png +level-colors ,"rgb($r,$g,$b)" "picture$r$g$b.jpg"
done
done
done
Not much else to add, all you can do is experiment.
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