Many here remember the Traveling Salesman thread which extensively I used the Voronoi Stipple program for. Well the guy updated his program and it even does color stipples outright now. The passed parameters slightly changed too (don't believe you can select either CPU or GPU anymore). Still, cool that you can now directly get a color stipple with it. Just wanted to pass the info on.

http://www.saliences.com/projects/npr/s ... pling.html

Thanks for the update, reminded me of another that I should resurrect from my achive
MetaPixel (linux) Sadly not updated at all but still works.

That reminded me I have not made a mosaic for some time.

that is cool, I like it.

One of the main reasons for my motivation of running Linux VMs wat Metapixel Rich. Same person who created Mathmap created Metapixel. Don't believe it ever got ported to the Windows platform though. I've since rebuilt my Linux VM many times and have never re-installed Metapixel but it definitely is a worthy Photomosaic generator for sure.

Please explain to beginners - as mentioned: Metapixel ?

Metapixel is a Linux based program for creating photomosaics. Below's the link MareroQ.

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/metapixel/

Given source is from 2006 - which can count more than five years ...(department further ?)..
I will try in the Ubuntu 11.04
Quite on the margins - where you find inspiration ideas for new users ?

Where do you find ideas for us ???
I do not want to coax - but your comments are always inspiring and I look forward to ... next ...

Slightly off-topic, although the same link involved. I found Mark's starfield animation maker pretty interesting.

Like I said, I've not re-installed it in years and really not in the mood to do so. However, I did the one at link below when my now aged (was new in 2008; lol) PC which actually was running XP at that time. Was actually running VMWare player and a downloaded Virtual appliance at that time.

http://www.innographx.com/forum/viewtop ... el#p110640

We want to learn on Your experience - believe in helping - Champions for beginners.
I usually just happens - we have the problem of ignorance of the language - but when we talk about GIMP - it's just the commands - may be able to understand ?

That's cool MareroQ; many here will be more then willing to help answer questions including me w.r.t. GIMP; other apps too but not all apps. I only dabbled with Metapixel (not a GIMP plugin; it's a command line stand-alone program as I recall) and found it was cool at that time, but, photo-mosaics really wasn't my cup of tea if you will. I prefer Found Object Mosaics and, of course, classical mosaics too. But FOMs keeps the quest alive for me looking for that magic (and preferred free or open source; lol) app that can create Jigsaw Image Mosaics (which are FOMs). Haven't really ran across too many that did it like the JIM guys do though.

I did not think my musing would generate any interest.

@Mareroq
I first used metapixels in a debian distro, so ubuntu users should find it in their repo. If not see
http://pkgs.org/download/metapixels
I now use PCLOS and I just took the old rpm from my backup archive and unpacked it. Four files, 2 compiled and 2 perl scripts (perl - possibly why it has never been compiled for Windows). Popped them into /usr/bin for convenience.

What can you do with it?. Best with posters viewed from a distance. Once made some portraits composed of coloured tiles of the same portrait that worked very well. A note of caution, you can make monster files with this. The only time I crashed linux was trying to open a 400+ MB png in Gimp. I could see the ram meter head north and could do nothing to prevent the inevitable total lockup.

Windows users could try AndeaMosaic http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/ which has a nice GUI.

Back to the original subject: pleased to report that the latest Voronoi Stipple still works in linux using WINE. Must get into it now that it colours.

We do this stuff all the time and it doesn't bother me anyway Rich. What better way to share cool stuff then to interactively do so. I just wish I was motivated to do these again (and indeed I may sooner or later when that binge comes around). Metapixel, at the time I tried it, did a fantastic job of overlap renderings (my example) which I though was quite unique at that time. Anyway, glad that you also got the updated voronoi stipple program running in Linux too.