Metapixel 1.0.2 review
DownloadMetapixel is a Photomosaic Generator
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Metapixel is a Photomosaic Generator. It can generate classical photomosaics, in which the source image is viewed as a matrix of equally sized rectangles for each of which a matching image is substitued, as well as collage-style photomosaics, in which rectangular parts of the source image at arbitrary positions (i.e. not aligned to a matrix) are substituted by matching images.
Here are some key features of "Metapixel":
Metapixel generates not only classical mosaics but also collage-style photomosaics (see examples).
The matching algorithms match not only color but also form.
Metapixel is fast. It takes about 75 seconds to generate a classical photomosaic for a 2048x2432 image with constituent images of size 64x64 and a database of slightly more than 11000 images on my not-so-fast Alpha. Most of this time is spent loading and saving images.
Metapixel can generate classical mosaics which contain at most one copy of each constituent image. Alternatively, Metapixel can be instructed to honor a minimum distance between two occurrences of the same image in classical photomosaics.
Metapixel has a cheat option which overlays the photomosaic with the original image using a user-specified percentage. Small percentages yield noticable improvements but are innocent enough so as not to be noticed without close inspection.
Metapixel is a command-line program and thus scriptable.
What's New in This Release:
This version adds a few minor bugfixes and support for reading GIF and writing JPEG files.
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