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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."
This site looks like a meltdown waiting to happen...
Current cloud temporary mirror. Be aware that this won't update hourly as the site one does...
Mirror: 5light.com/cloud.jpg
/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/webcollage - comes with xscreensaver. Written in perl, easy enough to give it new methids to find photos.
Nick Waterman, Sr Tech Director, #include <stddisclaimer>
The point is that the cloud image isn't assembled by a person acting senselessly in Photoshop, but by an automated program that is most definitely acting senselessly each hour.
Cool, and it takes a bit of graphics processing to make it happen... but still kinda pointless.
The correct term would propably be collage.
Actually, it's mostly to keep hits down so I don't get slashdotted myself.
The average business user can't justify clicking on a link for wetsexygirl.com, even if it really IS a mirror for slashdot (which they're not supposed to visit during work, anyway).
If I posted with a "legitimate" site name then anyone in the universe could click and I'd be looking at a many-gig bill.
Eventually there will be some wet, sexy girls there, but since my current hosting provide (Pair networks) doesn't allow pr0n, it'll have to be whenever I change hosts (at least another year).
Also, it's just nice to be able to mess with y'all. Same thing here for Total Cost of 0wnership, but it's a temporary mirror, so that stuff is already gone.
You should check out another site that is very similar. tiles.ice.org (there was a /. story about it a couple years back but unsurprisingly it ground the server into little bits - time to give it another shot!).
The Tribute to Salvador Dali, Tribute to Van Gogh, and Tribute to M.C. Escher came out particularly well.
(disclaimer: I created the website, but that shouldn't take away from the art that others have done on it)