Photomosaic

In the field of photographic imaging, a photomosaic is a picture (usually a photograph) that has been divided into (usually equal sized rectangular) sections, each of which is replaced with either a solid colour, or another image of appropriate average colour. When viewed at low magnifications, the individual pixels appear as the primary image, while close examination reveals that the image is in fact made up of many hundreds or thousands of smaller images. Photomosaics are almost always produced using computers.

The word is formed from photo+mosaic.

External links

• Metapixel is a photomosaic generator released under the GPL (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/metapixel/)
• Examples of photomosaics (http://metapixel.nix.at/metapixel/examples.html)

to do it yourself you can use freeware/postcardware programs like:

• centarsia (http://www.alhena-design.com/centarsia/)
• andreamosaic (http://andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/)

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