Photobrix mosaic software/service

[jaymzcampbell]

Hi all,

In an twist of fate for nearly two years on and off, I've been working on and just finished (well, it's never finished), more soft/beta launched, a very similar tool and service - we don't have any charges as yet - our plan is to hook into printing and other services rather than deal with sourcing bricks; we'd also keep smaller instruction generations free too, it's more custom and detailed outputs we'd perhaps have a fee for. We are quite close to adding some new features such as more control on placement algorithms (eg, disabling jittering, dithering, posterizing levels) as well as a brick matching system. We had started off solely using the commonly available colours (all our demo videos are from this limited set) but for soft launch have expanded this out to include a few more rare but available colours.

The site is up and running including some demo videos at http://photobrix.com - there's more than a few bugs which we're working out but at this point we thought we might as well finally make it 'public'. Much of the code I already have packaged up into a command line tool, here's a screenshot of the help interface, if there was the demand we'd consider looking to spend time developing a standalone piece of offline software - though with our resources (2 people) it's hard to find lots of time.

We're at an early stage but would appreciate any and all feedback.

Cheers,

Jaymz

Edited July 27, 2014 by jaymzcampbell

[Calabar]

Hi aymzcampbell and welcome in EB.

This is not a generic mosaic software topic, but the place where offsky introduces his software.

For your software, you should have a topic your own. Maybe a moderator/regolator will move your post soon and will create a new topic (don't create a new topic by yourself to avoid crossposting).

PS: choose a good title for your topic!

[jaymzcampbell]

Hi Calabar, many thanks for the heads up; apologies; I didn't want to spam your board unnecessarily :)

[Calabar]

Don't worry, it is not my board and your post is not spam... it simply was written in the wrong place!

Your software deserve a topic its own, so you can adequately introduce it and follow any issue and question.

[Superkalle]

Split the posts into a new, separate topic.

[jaymzcampbell]

Hi there! Thanks for moving the post to a new topic. Over the past week I've pushed out lots of updates including a nice brick overlay making the output look much more realistic. I've also added a bunch of options to control the output that is generated - key thing being limiting colour palettes to more common colours and limiting the sizes used per colour to known available ones. We're still hacking away on it - next stop is high quality outputs for prints and the like, improved instructions and maybe user accounts.

Edited August 2, 2014 by jaymzcampbell

[Calabar]

The service is completely provided online, right?

Is there any hardware or software requisite?

[jaymzcampbell]

Hi Calabar, yes it's all online. It is basically calling a backend tool to actually do everything which could be completely offline though I've no real plans to develop that further at the minute and am focusing on the website for it's ease of access. No, there's no requirements beyond a browser, everything is output on the page, aside from uploading a photo there's no processing on the users side, everything happens on the server in a queue. Cheers.

[Daniel304]

I see you created this in some linux environment?

Is there a rudimentary source available?

I am searching for a heuristic that could place bricks the best way..