Seeing some of the photos I have taken in Barcelona, I felt like I wanted to do something fun with them. I knew I wanted to create some sort of puzzle or pattern, and in the end I decided to write code that manipulated my photos and turned them into a "quilt." After turning some photos into quilts, I kept manipulating them to obtain a "pixel mosaic."
To turn the photos into quilts, I wrote code that generated random coordinates from the input image, and cropped squares (40 x 40 pixels each) out of it to create the output image. To create the pixel mosaics, I divided each quilt into squares of 16 x 16 pixels, and assigned to each the color value in the middle pixel.
Click here to see the code.Here is some example output that I got (all photos taken by me):
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