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Clouds, The Collaborative Photo Mosiac
jaric writes "Over at peffis.com users post their cell phone photos to a shared photo blog. The creator of the open source site now has invented what he calls Clouds. It is a combination of all the posted photos into one cloud, or mosaic. The result is quite fascinating. You can see the current cloud."
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High resolution Photomontage posted on Slashdot. Now after 5 comments the site won't even load up at all. This has to be the evilist news post ever!
You can see the current cloud.
Not any more you can't. The Slashdot effect: It's like night-time, but for web servers!
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one " -Albert Einstein
You can see the current cloud.
No, no I don't think we can. Unless the current cloud looks a little something like a "Request to server timed out" window.
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1.) Thanks for the mirror. The cloud image wasn't so special, but it was nice to see it...
2.) Why on EARTH (or off it) would you use the domain "www.wetsexygirl.com" only for mirroring an image for a /. story?!?! Yeah, so I'm a horn-dog and checked out the top of the domain, and what did I find?:
No offense, but man, that is just a tease...Don't tease us with "wetsexygirl.com" unless you are going to give us a Wet, Sexy Girl or two or ten or hundred...yes I have karma to burn and this OT, so mod me down if you please...
"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
My God, it's full of crap!
That is, when it's not timing out from too many requests..
Come on, confess.
Does it look to anyone else like the kid with the shotgun is trying to kill off the baby?
What we really need is a ten day waiting period and a background check before you can buy a congressman.
There are no boobies in the mosaic, people. Nothing to see here.
That little boy is shooting that woman!
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It's like staring into the puke of a goat that broke into a photo lab...
This "cloud" thing is kinda nifty, kinda goofy. Some of the images are crappy but the technique is interesting. Maybe it's a good idea that just needs expanding. You need better images to start with, if you want a better end result.
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Somebody go find an egg timer. As a requiem, we really should record the time it takes for the Cloud to be astroturfed, spammed, p0rned, and otherwise made to resemble the online equivalent of a univeristy-district telephone pole.
Requiescat In Pace, Nebula.
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"It's like that drug trip in that movie I saw when I was on that drug trip."
./ headline?
Seriously though, what is this p.o.s? My first photoshop day? Or have the olympics inspired a world record attempt for the destruction of a perfectly good web server in the shortest time possible by linking to a high resolution image directly in a
Read Pynchon.
For those of you that haven't seen it:
http://www.edit.ne.jp/~katsu/image/cloud.jpg
This cloud looks just like an HTTP error message! Amazing!
This cloud thing is just asking to end up where you get just enough opacity on a layer to recognize a boob, but it fades into a Peugot before the nipple!
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Who would of though chaos theory at its best..
a collection of random images, arranged and displayed and it looks exactly like a 404.
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Interestingly, I've also written a photo mosaic program (currently in beta). So, curious about yours, I went and checked it out. I also checked out some of the more detailed output from your program.
So, tell me, is that your penis in some of the tile images, or someone else's?
Just checking...
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"It's craptacular"
-Lod
"The result is quite fascinating."... *click* "Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible." Hmm, it always facinates me when other peoples bank accounts are soon going to be in as much difficulty as mine is.