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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. Kinda cool but... by rwven · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...It almost looks like someone spent an hour making a website and 20 minutes in photoshop and went live with it. Sorta neat lookin' but hardly decent /. material...(IMHO of course)

  2. Congrats by ttsalo · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This perhaps the ugliest digital image ever created.

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  3. Re:Huh? by cheesekeeper · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I also am missing the point here. Is this generated with some really cool function-based language? Is it being done on a beowulf cluster of Sony-Ericssons? I see about 30 photos slapped together with some alpha channels... ummm... GREAT! Now, I'm going to go read the white pages cover to cover, because it's more interesting.

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  4. doesn't look like.... by Moonlapse · · Score: 2, Insightful

    there are many photos in that mosaic

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  5. You have entirely too much free time on your hands by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    then again, I'm posting on slashdot.org...nevermind

  6. Quality? by bobthemuse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Looking at these pictures, they all look like they were taken with a 2+ megapixel camera. I've seen pics from a dozen camera phones, none of them were this good. What's the real source of these pictures?

  7. It's a mosaic? by tuxguy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It might be nice if the cloud had more pcitures in it. As it is, it's not much of a mosaic. According to Dictionary.com, a Mosaic is:
    # A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

    I don't think it's much of a mosaic, as it doesn't form a large picture. I just don't get it.

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  8. That's NOT a photo mosaic! by schani · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The image is not a photo mosaic, just a random collage of pictures. These are photo mosaics. (I'm the author of that program.)

    bye
    Mark