Just having some fun now.

ref: http://www.gz4.it/gdiblasi/pubblicazioni/mosaic.php (scroll all the way down to the java routines; he makes the jar file available too so you can save and run locally which I do).

Love the way you added the people Lyle.
Are those the same crop circle peeps you use?

Here is mine

Same image where I got the other guys, but these are different (bigger; even so, I had to uprez them to make the size relation almost believable; lol). di Blazi's mosaic programs are quite addictive but he places size constrants. Just wish I knew how to java and edit jar files. I would take the contraints out. I know he uses a special GIMP language for java (jGimp) in order to create his Jar files but I'm not really that familiar with it.

By the way, in order to get the consistent raised result, I used a solid white as the source image and depended heavily on an external path file for the bricks to follow the path. I used G'MIC's Shape Average to colorize the bricks.

Some more experiments. This time I used Rob's Mosaic Helper to create the edge mask and also used G'MIC's morpholgy preset to clean them up some.

i like both !

Pretty good effect Lyle.

Thanks for the comments. Just got back (bought a new mouse; sad that my last lazer lasted little over a year; the button went wack and finally got tired of fiddling with it; new mouse supposedly has a battery life of over a year; we shall see) and still trying to get comfortable with my new mouse.