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."

Comments

Bullshit?

[Anonymous Coward]

I might be an AC, but is this article totally boring, and unoriginal, and just basically worthless? Why do dull low quality moblog photos suddenly become front page news when combined together into a mosaic with fadey edges? Is image blending really all that revolutionary?

The probabilty of a decent story being posted to the front page of Slashdot obviously must decrease as the age of Slashdot increases.

My Brain

[malia8888]

The pics in the "Cloud" reminded me of all the daily stuff that runs through my mind before I go to sleep. The only thing that was missing was a nice pic of my significant other and a shot of my incoming mail with the stack of windowed envelopes in it. :P

Re:webcollage

[makapuf]

Well the original online verison hass been written by JWZ and agregates pics from the net. you could see it here. BEWARE : uncensored images are collated from the internet. Not always work safe, thus.

Sito

[captnitro]

My girlfriend participates in something a little more structured than this, but similar. Sito has a number of projects such as (descriptions taken from Sito) -

Hygrid: "This collaborative art project has been evolving since December 1995. The idea behind this project is to create a "hyperlinked grid of visually interlocked images". Each square on the grid is a small image created by a participating artist. Each square is adjacent to another artist's square in the structure, appearing on the top, right, bottom or left side."

Gridcosm: "Gridcosm is a collaborative art project in which artists from around the world contribute images to a compounding series of graphical squares."

Those are the two most active and interesting ones. For those that enjoy recursive acronyms, you'll definitely like Gridcosm (like a recursive acronym.. FOR YOUR MIND). Some of the levels can be outright beautiful, some are crappy.

The way it works is this: after having an account, you "reserve" a piece to work on. You have a set time limit to turn your piece in before somebody else gets it. As an example -- and since she reads Slashdot, she's gonna kill my ass -- you can also view individual pieces and jump from there.

The most interesting behavior I've seen, though, is that work breeds work -- when one or a few people decide to bounce in, the entire community picks up, contributing to an almost organic growth and decline of the various levels and sub-projects.

subliminal messages

[icegoddes5]

This is obviously a subliminal ad campaign promoting:
A. Tommy Hilfiger (how else do you explain the random inclusion of the logo?)
or
B. guns and violence (who else saw images of guns, mobs, and some rather strange looking individuals?)

Re:Kinda cool but...

[darkain]

Debris Visual Art does the same things pretty much as the program mentioned... but personally, i think Debris puts out a much better visual image.

Looks like Debris

[Bagels]

This looks an awful lot like Debris, a program from the guys at Nullsoft that creates a very similar collage from random pictures pulled off of the net. I'll get a link here in a sec...

Re:That's NOT a photo mosaic!

[Anonymous Coward]

> The image is not a photo mosaic, just a random collage of pictures

Of course not. Because, according to the /. article title, it is a MOSIAC !

Would you think that CmdrTaco would post an article without researching if the term are correct ?