20-05-2005 15:21

miketwalker

Re: pic: Another Photo-mosaic

That mosaic is mimicking the very, very high-speed shot of a bullet piercing through an apple. I don't know WHY you chose to make that for a sponsor since I don't know too much about your team. Maybe because you guys attended the New York Regional and wanted to convey going to the "Big" apple and it being a "mosaic" of diversity? Lol. I know, that's lame.. .but it's an attempt.

20-05-2005 15:35

tiffany34990

Re: pic: Another Photo-mosaic

this is pretty intresting...

how long did this creation take???

well great job!!

20-05-2005 17:02

Ian Curtis

Re: pic: Another Photo-mosaic

Hmm. Looks like a guy with a video camera to me. And you're giving it to one of their sponsors becuase one of your sponsors makes video cameras... (if I'm even close I'll be very suprised)

w00t 300th post

20-05-2005 17:02

[527]phil

Re: pic: Another Photo-mosaic

Yup thats the famous pic of a .308 round used in demonstrations showing the effect of a .308 to the head.

20-05-2005 17:43

Michael Auchter

Re: pic: Another Photo-mosaic

You are using that picture because three ueber-cool MIT students decided to make a bolt gun, and capture images of the bolt going through objects. Really ingenious, the triggering system they used...

http://web.mit.edu/Damonv/Public/Doombolt/

20-05-2005 19:20

geeknerd99

Re: pic: Another Photo-mosaic

Those blue dots in the upper left.... is that your desktop?

20-05-2005 19:50

ZZII 527

Re: pic: Another Photo-mosaic

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.


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. )

20-05-2005 20:50

melitami

Re: pic: Another Photo-mosaic

Because I <3 Google:

The picture (http://www.eyestorm.com/works/Doc_Edgerton_9644.aspx) was taken by Doc Edgerton, who was a distinguished MIT professor (bio here: http://www.edgerton.org/biography.html), and one of your sponsors is the MIT Edgerton Center.

Very, very cool, I must say!

20-05-2005 23:10

spears312

Re: pic: Another Photo-mosaic

That's a cool pic. Kind of took me a min or two to realize what it was of (wasn't expecting it to be a apple being shot).

21-05-2005 00:01

ZZII 527

Re: pic: Another Photo-mosaic

Ten points to melitami! I figure we can get a nice big poster-sized one and a frame...should look good in the Edgerton Center office.

21-05-2005 08:39

[527]phil

Re: pic: Another Photo-mosaic

I think it's just a complicated way of making apple sauce

04-06-2005 19:59

ZZII 527

Re: pic: Another Photo-mosaic

After much cleaning up, I have the final renders of the bullet-through-apple mosaic:

normal, small:
http://web.mit.edu/scolton/www/edgerton1024.jpg


normal, big:
http://web.mit.edu/scolton/www/edgerton.jpg

color cheat, small:
http://web.mit.edu/scolton/www/edgertoncolor1024.jpg


color cheat, big:
http://web.mit.edu/scolton/www/edgertoncolor.jpg