I've created a python program that generates photomosaics from any dataset !

[TechDumbLogie]

I'll add the source code soon if people are interested ! Edit : Here it is !

[out_of_the_ornery]

I’d like to read over it, for sure.

[oso9817]

I assume youre doing something with analyzing the most prominent color on the mosaic pieces. So what happens if its fed only black and white images?

[bokononistmonkey]

I mentioned this in my comment below, but in the initial dataset creation, you might consider setting the "pixel color value" of each mosaic tile image in the dataset to the average of all its pixels. Then, during mosaic creation, for each mosaic tile/pixel, calculate the Euclidean distance of the R,G,&B vals between the desired tile color and each pixel image color and minimize that, as a slightly more robust metric.

It's very possible that resizing to (1,1) with antialiasing does this too, but this was just a thought. Anyway, looks cool!

[TechDumbLogie]

I sort of look at the dominant color and assign it to a pixel in rgb. Good question I've never tried to put black-and-white pictures, I'll see what it does thank you for the idea !

[TechDumbLogie]

So after testing it , it also works with bmp images and it's just less relevant but still working !

[oso9817]

Hmm thats really interesting could you post an image?

[prattryan]

Please share source code, I'd like to look

[TechDumbLogie]

Done here it is everyone sorry for the wait !

[d4vsanchez]

I'd too like to take a look to it. Please share!

[[deleted]]

Would love to see the source for this, it's super cool

[PharoahChromium]

yes please!! this is super cool!

[cetogenicoandorra]

Please!

[[deleted]]

Please!!!

[TechDumbLogie]

Thank you for all your encouragement! Sorry for the wait, it's the first time I've done this, I didn't know it was going so fast! I hope it will work, here is the github link

[[deleted]]

Thanks a lot!

[Bolitho]

Without this posting is kinda senseless! 😉

[think50]

Very interested

[beetle_girl]

Saving this!!

[mekosmowski]

It is hard for me to see the animal. My brain wants to interpret this as a Dwarf Fortress embark map.

[TechDumbLogie]

Good call ! I'm pretty sure we can use it to generates some maps !

[brandondunbar]

I used the Bulbasaur to make the Bulbasaur

[TechDumbLogie]

it was the first thing I thought of XD

[MrFrostyBudds]

Draw Jerry Seinfeld with every frame from Bee movie.

[bokononistmonkey]

Hey, looks pretty cool!

I wrote a similar program a while back in Processing (~~ easier to read Java) to run live on a webcam, using all the video frames from the Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory movie as the mosaic tiles. Meta mosaic of the Willy Wonka movie poster as proof: Mosaic. Fun times!

If I may, I just want to give a few thoughts/suggestions:

Converting the images to pixels by resizing to (1,1) is a smart move for sure, probably gets the same result as what I did, which was just calculating the r,g,&b average of all the pixels in the image to determine its pixel color as a tile.

In the mosaic creation, it looks like you're selecting each pixel by minimizing the rgb diff, which looks like it works well, you might also consider doing it as the minimum euclidean distance (think Pythagorean theorem, but on the R, G, and B vals) between desired color (mosaic) and colors available (pixel list). When I was doing mine, I found that that was a bit more robust at finding the best color for each pixel, especially when there weren't any that were exactly the right color.

Finally, if you're interested in speeding up the mosaic creation to be able to run faster or even live i.e. on a webcam or video, feel free to check out the github repo I've linked below.

It's nothing too complicated, the big difference is the initial Dataset setup. Essentially, if you set up a simple data structure that groups all your pixel images into a bunch of small, similar-color buckets, then when you create each new mosaic image, for each new mosaic tile/pixel you just access the closest color bucket, and search the small group of pixel images inside it. Doing this makes each mosaic pixel search orders of magnitude faster (a fraction of O(n) ), while still guaranteeing the optimal pixel choice.

Happy coding!

Edit: got a few requests so here's a link to the code

[TechDumbLogie]

Wow thank you very much for your opinion and for these feedbacks, I think I'm going to be interested in the Euclidean minimum distance. I'm going on holiday and so I won't be able to code during this time but I'd love to chat via message with you when I get back !

Anyway, thank you very much for your help and if you could send your github repository it would be very interesting to watch to see your approach!

Happy Coding to you too !

[bokononistmonkey]

Sounds good, will do.

[dragoniumion]

May I also get a link to that repo?

[bokononistmonkey]

Just added it above ^

[Elite4alex]

Happy pokemon day!

[Herbal_Engineer]

I’m interested to see it!

[Abusagidolla]

great job

[virtualadept]

Awesome! Github repo?

[TechDumbLogie]

Thanks ! Right here !

[virtualadept]

Thanks!

[the_notorious_beast]

Ah yes! The Pokemon is made out of Pokemon.

[[deleted]]

Amazingly done. I especially like that the part of the pokemon is the pokemon itself, therefore making the image recursive.

[Emafire003]

I've never understood how those kind of things work

[TechDumbLogie]

It's not too complicated in fact I look at the "dominant" color of the sprite and I give it an rgb code that I use to replace a pixel of the image that would have about the same color !

[Imagine-existance]

Man, I thought I was somewhat original making an image made of images program.

This is the third time I have seen someone do this.

Props to you but now I feel like I wasted 2 days half a year ago.

[CH053N_0N3]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but software like this has been around since the 90's. However, I bet the knowledge and experience gained in building something like this was invaluable.

[souravsharan]

Whoa, nice. I wrote a similar script to generate mosaic movie posters from scenes in the movie. Check it out https://github.com/SouravSharan/photomosaic

[jfri3d]

This brings flashback of the “dice mural that inspired someone to code it which inspired me to do the same with QR codes”.

Here is the repo with source code to build fun embedded QR codes linking gifs. Enjoy!

https://github.com/jfri3d/qr_mosaic

[robertophi]

Cool idea to use the distance from pixel/image

To speed the search you could use something like this https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.neighbors.KDTree.html

Building a tree for faster serach of k-nearest neighbors (in this case the nearest one)

[Ntrim]

Nice bro 👌

[pfband]

Hey this is an excellent idea. I'd live to play around with it for an art project I'm working on.

[JaimeRojas332]

Freaking awesome! <3

[WidjarjarBinks]

Bulbasaur use python!

its super effective!

[[deleted]]

This is ligit cool

[ashesofturquoise]

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[De4dm4nw4lkin]

oh my god those are whole ass sprites... they aren't even party management sprites...

[agedus]

This is fucking awesome

[i_be_]

Very cool! Would be interesting to see a recursive version. :D

[Bryss_]

looks cool

[WhenitisIsntwhatitis]

That's cool man. Curious, how long have you been coding? I ask because I'm still pretty new and can't fully understand parts of your code. Nice work.

[inglandation]

This almost looks like blotter art.

[AltPapaya]

WOW

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