Not sure if you folks had seen these... (All of my
Amalgamations on Flickr).
They were from a few years ago. I used imagemagick convert initially to handle the blending (because I could do much larger image sets faster than trying to adjust opacity on a per-image basis in GIMP).
To verify the results against Salavons initial work years and years ago, here is my result of the Playboy centerfolds (All of the 1970's):
![Image](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HwKSjJsjGAM/UBwtix1ifEI/AAAAAAAACf8/Vg4YxyIaZ7w/s600/1970-rotated-blended-auto-contrast.png)
Which I then began extending to other things, like all of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition covers:
![Image](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ewfuZs3aQEQ/UBw5iy_-VNI/AAAAAAAACiI/N8AgvWGLldY/s1600/SI-Swimsuit-Covers.png)
I then moved on to photographer Martin Schoeller's close up portraits:
![Image](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MwoN2HVgbfM/UCKtb2NlwoI/AAAAAAAAClM/X-6pbRAdrgs/s1600/montage_blends_2048.jpg)
My two favorites were George Walken/Christopher Clooney:
![Image](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wzdleKFP-vk/UCLCKa981QI/AAAAAAAACm0/Dag3cwd7RKY/s640/out.jpg)
And all the "Dreamy" men in the list:
![Image](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pjD1Yz3MQ6k/UCLEO9ED_MI/AAAAAAAACns/juTJ3LY87mc/s640/dreamy.jpg)
From there I basically started looking at much longer averaging sets, and settled into music videos. I would dump all of the frames of the music video and use a custom script for G'MIC to mean average all of the images (well over 5000-6000 images per video):
http://blog.patdavid.net/2013/09/mean-a ... ideos.html![Image](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FPU1SIxaTPw/UjodTyvcbaI/AAAAAAAAMCk/eX0qnY4A2Ig/s600/Gotye+-+Somebody+That+I+Used+to+Know.png)
![Image](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-By_v0mepzuo/UjofCt6F-qI/AAAAAAAAMCw/uZwf8KSpyHY/s600/Robin+Thicke+-+Blurred+Lines.png)
![Image](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S9TFLVki870/UjokkqI9KwI/AAAAAAAAMDY/4exFSlbIC78/s600/Pink+-+True+Love.png)
A little while back I had a look at the
average movie covers from Netflix that were suggested to me by their algorithms:
![Image](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TnxdmDpQ4bo/U6BcVq6xB8I/AAAAAAAAQoI/I3PapM5WQls/s1600/Netflix.png)
Apparently, doing puny music videos wasn't quite enough for me. Here's where I'm currently focusing some efforts:
![Image](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8899-0PxZZk/VeRrPEep6II/AAAAAAAAWek/1e9WsSKVRXU/s600/mean_3499.png)
![Image](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WJL5IEQ3Aq0/VeRrPAnZuNI/AAAAAAAAWeo/1z-y-mNbAnY/s600/mean_3915.png)
![Image](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3V4xRRN_mzo/VeRrPJaBUPI/AAAAAAAAWes/ogEZHPZtWeg/s600/mean_4005.png)
![Image](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lGtj0P_SZjU/VeRrP2nE_XI/AAAAAAAAWew/-tjSbZ72sso/s600/mean_4105.png)
![Image](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-obie3qn0n_E/VeRrQDYJGEI/AAAAAAAAWe0/3IxZM8guaOY/s600/mean_4577.png)
![Image](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AmAzfNTLoXg/VeRroX6TZyI/AAAAAAAAWfM/tiZ1dup3aJg/s600/mean_27201.png)
A couple of my original posts from back in 2012 for reference (if anyone wants to follow along):
http://blog.patdavid.net/2012/08/imagem ... files.htmlhttp://blog.patdavid.net/2012/08/more-a ... eller.html