The main problem is to get a large collection of short video clips suitable for this use. To realise this each video clip must be a relatively static video. Andrea Mosaic tries to reproduce a still image where each tile is a video clip or a still image. A completely new interface came out of beta testing with version 3.3 in September, 2008. In the following years new features where added once or twice a year. The first public release was version 3.12 in 2003. The final result is a video (AVI file) where each frame is a photo-mosaic. AndreaMosaic is freeware graphic art software developed and published by Andrea Denzler and that specializes in the creation of photographic mosaic images. For what it’s worth, the 40 page PDF manual is detailed and exemplary.Īnother facet to this wonder app is its ability to “create video mosaics (Mac/Linux not supported). I enjoyed Andrea Mosaic and figure it is halfway between a terrible time waster and a magnificent experimental ‘device’! Give it a lot of time and you can expect top results. From my POV it seems you need lots of experimentation to achieve a pleasing result. Trying variations of tile duplication and spacing this is what I achieved. Try again, with ‘no duplicates.’ Not a happy result. I selected square tiles and duplication, at the suggestion of the app.Īs you can see the result is not an accurate mosaic of the original but is, I figure, an interesting image in its own right. Very pleasing! It will no doubt look very different on DPS pages due to the rescaling.Īnother image: a night shot of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. As you can see the result is far from OK with black tiles filling some spaces.Īnd again, with the same image but using the original 3056×4592 pixel image. Once again, this time selecting ‘no duplicates’. As you can see there was a fair bit of duplication to match the tonal shades in the original image but I was quite happy with the result. For repro purposes in DPS you are looking at 600×900 pixels. The actual ‘stitching’ took only another 30 seconds. Then there was some mucking around to choose the source folder … this took 80 seconds. I hit the button ‘Create Mosaic’ and the dialog box suggested I tick the box marked Tile Duplication. At this point the app showed me a demo of how the final mosaic would look. I had already had assembled a folder of 798 images of various sizes, some ranging up to 4000×3000 pixels. In the next step, I needed to choose the source folder of the tiles.
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