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how long did this creation take???
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Writing the program took about 3 days. The render time depends a great deal on the number of pictures and the size of the pictures used. (And I'm sure my code isn't the most efficient out there.) With a 769 640x480 pictures, it takes about 4 minutes. The image quality would be improved significantly (fewer repeated pictures, better coloring) if I had more images - 2,000 or so. I'll have to scrounge around.
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Those blue dots in the upper left.... is that your desktop?
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No, that's a picture of the flag poles at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester. (see big version:
http://web.mit.edu/scolton/www/final.jpg) It got repeated because that section of the original picture was all blue so the color-matching program keeps choosing those pictures. That's something I have to work on in the code too. Right now I have it so that no picture is repeated within 5 tiles of itself, but that seems to just produce 5x5 tile repeats in the pure blue section of the picture.
Nobody has gotten the 10 point trivia question yet (Why that picture?), so it's time for another hint: Who took the picture?
(The first hint was that we would be giving a copy to one of our sponsors in particular...you may have to check our web site to solve the riddle.
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