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.
Twitter doesn’t much care for the load I place on their servers when I suck out avatar collections, and hence I am unable to release the script or its URL for the public. But if you would like me to make you a mosaic like mine, of your own avatar, and built with the avatars of your followers, leave a comment and we’ll work out something. Or if you would like to run the script on your own server and risk being banned, I’m happy to share it.
Wow, that’s fantastic!
hey frd .. u r on twitter ?
i also joined few weeks back … but m not much into tweets n all 😀 … sometimes active on weekends 😉
This effect would be nice on a vibrant outdoor scene with blue sky and green grass. It creates an abstract master feel. Are there any software in the adobe family that can create that effect ?
anyway thanks for the article
I used Andrea Mosaic (freeware), fed it my collection of twitter avatars (the hard part was getting the twitter servers to give them up for me) and the base picture I use as my twitter avatar. A higher res picture with more brilliant colors would probably work better. 🙂
Yea…Its a nice work, TwiterMosiac… this is way too much fun for a day!!!
Amazing, share more.
Hello!
I am @roneyb from Twitcastc.com.br (the first podcast about Twitter on South America as far as I know).
Would you share your script with us?
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