In a recent blog post on the Twitter Mosaic Web App I showed an example from a twitter app that randomly tiles your follower avatars into a grid and then tries to sell you the design on shirts, mugs, etc. This is not a true mosaic. In a true mosaic you place the tiles taking into consideration their color, in a way that forms a bigger meta picture. There is free software that will do this if you give it a folder full of tile graphics. So all I would need to do is download the follower avatars for any given user. I wrote a script to get the avatars of the followers of any twitter user. Then I fed those files to a free Desktop Mosaic creator. The graphic at the head of this article is a reduced version of the result of this experiment. Click it to see a larger, but still quite scaled down version where you can see the component avatars more clearly.
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