pic: Bobcat Mosaic

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Alex Pelan

It'll be proudly displayed in our pits at Battlecry this year if anyone there wants to come and take a look.

This is assuming I don't destroy it tomorrow when I try to mount it on poster board. I'm using some over-ten-year-old poster board that's kind of beat up, but its the only thing I could find. Dry Mat Tissue will affix the mosaic to the board, but I just hope that the tissue doesn't wrinkle and that the ink doesn't burn or anything (I've never dry pressed from this printer).

The mosaic was made using about 600 images from the last three years (although primarily this year, thanks to kids having their own digital cameras to pull images from) as well as about 5000 frames of video from our competitions (which you can see mostly as the filler in the background).

The actual software used to create the mosaic is a really nice piece of freeware called AndreaMosaic. It took me quite a while to find good mosaic software (although some of the alternatives I found had features I wish AndreaMosaic had (like prioritizing certain photos)), and then it took me a while to play with all the photos and all the settings to get the mosaic to be the right size and have the right photos and most importantly, resemble the Bobcat.

I believe one of our mentors found 2 more Cd's of old photos, so maybe we'll have an even better mosaic for Battlecry.