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Clouds, The Collaborative Photo Mosiac

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-art-or-something dept.

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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  1. Re:Huh? by LostCluster · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing like taking a small image-based site and exposing it to a slashdotting, huh?

  2. The current cloud by MacGod · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can see the current cloud.

    Not any more you can't. The Slashdot effect: It's like night-time, but for web servers!

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  3. Currently... by H0NGK0NGPH00EY · · Score: 3, Funny

    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. Re:Currently... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      What you're missing:

      Geek with glasses. Geek with a rifle. Shot-up beer can. Retarded baby. Geek on lay-down bicycle. Motorcycle x2. Average Starbucks customers at a motorcycle rally pretending to be Hells Angels. Sewer grate. Flaming server.

  4. 2 things... by interactive_civilian · · Score: 4, Funny
    OT, but...

    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?:

    Temporary mirror for http://peffis.com/cloud.jpg
    Cloud
    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...

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  5. Yeeeeee! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My God, it's full of crap!

    That is, when it's not timing out from too many requests..

  6. Slashdotter spotting by AvantLegion · · Score: 4, Funny
    OK guys, which of you is the dork in the top left corner?

    Come on, confess.

  7. Move along by iamdrscience · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are no boobies in the mosaic, people. Nothing to see here.

    1. Re:Move along by PatrickThomson · · Score: 3, Funny

      Informative? Good God, what kinda moderators do we have, slashdot read - oh, never mind.

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  8. Quick! Alert the cops... by telstar · · Score: 4, Funny

    That little boy is shooting that woman!

  9. 15 minutes of fame by PMuse · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  10. Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    For those of you that haven't seen it:

    http://www.edit.ne.jp/~katsu/image/cloud.jpg

  11. OH THE HUMANITY by PornMaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  12. Nothing new here by Mateito · · Score: 4, Funny
    This site has been putting submitters photos into clouds for years.

    We remember you, Whiskers

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    1. Re:Nothing new here by bhima · · Score: 3, Funny

      Wow, That's amazing after browsing the internet for so many years, I can still be stuned... at how lame some people can be.

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  13. /.'ing dose it again... by sjwt · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  14. Re:That's NOT a photo mosaic! by Dracolytch · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...
    ~D

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  15. In the words of Bart Simpson... by LodCrappo · · Score: 3, Funny

    "It's craptacular"

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