Archive for the ‘Photos’
Our Photos
I have just created another wiki for photos which will be totally private – only students in this class will be able to join it. We will then be able to use it to post some interesting photos of activities we have been involved in during the year.
It goes without saying that we will not be identifying individual students in the photos but will just give a general description of what is happening.
BTW Have you actually visited our updated wiki/s yet? You will need to next term as this is where all our work, rubrics, newsletters, science fair information etc is going to be stored.
Mutapic
I’ve just discovered another interesting site! What can you create with this?
Mutapic is a real creative tool. It generates ideas.
The traditional way to create artwork is to start with an idea, sketch it, then render it. The idea comes from the brain, the sketch is drawn on paper and the rendering is done with any appropriate technique: painting, sculpting, etc.When you use a computer to create artwork you still need an idea, a sketch and a render. Computer are mostly used for rendering, a technically challenging process. Computers are not used too often to generate ideas because of their obvious dumbness and poor sense of taste. Mutapic is not any smarter than your average software but it does have some taste. Mutapic generates and infinite number of original images using rules, recipes and elements that are graphically interesting. Mutapic is used for the complete creative process. Mutapic proposes ideas, makes sketches and allows you to refine your sketches until you get a final render.
Mutapic helps you to create artwork. It is a tool for designers, artists and craftsmen. It can be used to create logos, patterns, decorative elements, and just for fun!
When you use Mutapic you combine two pictures to create a third one. Those two input pictures come from a picture library on the Mutapic server. In vector format, the pictures are small, 3kb in average, allowing high quality graphics with a small file size and fast download. The two input pictures are combined locally on your machine using computer generated randomness and filters. You pick filters and the machine computes random variations. Mutapic generates 16 different pictures automatically. The pictures are ‘mutants’ because they all are variations on a single theme.
Mutapic is an online application. You do not need to install anything to use it. Mutapic should run in any browser using Flash (Java script should be on).
Montage-a-Google
About Montage-a-google
Montage-a-google is a simple web-based app that uses Google’s image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. Not only an interesting way of browsing the net, it can also be used to create desktop pictures or
even posters (see examples below – more coming soon).
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/gfx/montage-a-google.jpg
This app requires version 8 of the Flash player or higher to run, you can get the latest version here.
Like this? Try Guess-the-google, the image guessing game based on the same platform.
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Create Huge Images
Rasterbator is a new tool which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture (max file size is 1Mb). You upload your image, select your size, and the result is a multi-page pdf file. You can then assemble the file in the correct order.
I fooled around with this yesterday and took a photo of a colleague. When I looked at it, it just looked like a bunch of huge dots. I figured I would print out the first “row” of photos (consisted of 4 sheets of paper — the whole file was a 4 x 4 square). I taped the sheets together, hung it in their office, and asked if they knew what it was. Knew right away and when you step back from the photo, you can see
the image very clearly. Close up it still looks like dots but it is very cool. Now, I am waiting for the right image to use for this. It was very easy to do. I read more on this tool and found out you can play
around with the dot size to make it a finer image.
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