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How I Look If I Was Made of Food

written by John Chow on July 12, 2007

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According to Life Goggles, my blog has over 240 photos of food! I know I love to eat but I didn’t know I’ve taken that many food pics. There are lots of things you can do with pictures of food. Life Googles thought it would be cool to turn all my food photo into a mosaic of me enjoying my food.

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Click on the above image to see the hi-res image. The mosaic was created using Andrea Mosaic, a freeware program that lets you create your own photographic mosaics made with your own pictures.

Now watch everyone mosaic famous bloggers to get a plug. :twisted:

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Nice! I will have to try it out. I wonder how complicated such a system is to make... :shock:

Now very... With good graphics library ie. in Java it's piece of cake :wink:

John

Thank you for this link. I have always down by myself using photoshop and would take several days if not weeks to do it by hand!

Bryan

you look like mona lisa with a plate of hot dish on your hand, will you get framed up soon? :lol:

Very interesting, Old great Idea!

I definitely have to try this out. That picture of you is pretty cool looking...

The pic wouldn't load the whole way in my RSS reader, so I had to come here to check it out! Yep, looks like an egg! ;)

Did anyone else have the same problem? Probably just my crappy connection.

Hey, this is really cool. I just tried it on a picture of my son. I was having a proud Navy mom monent. I think I'll post it today.

Or not...seems the photo is too large for blogger to handle. Hmm Wordpress of Type Pad that is the question? Where shall I go next.

Food, mmmmm Today I'm going to finish off my Pizza Hut P'zone for lunch. Love those things.

Jon, you are made of food :???:

That's a lot of food, alright. Speaking of food posts, I haven't seen any since that BluFur free lunch. I kinda miss it.

That could turn into a movement in fine arts I guess!

I'm glad everyone liked it, the software is really the star (besides John of course...)

I read John Chow with RSS.

Cool pic.

BeachBum

cool picture !!

thanks for sharing

Your face has probably made some people hungry...as disturbing as that sounds.

Awesome program though!

I'm an RSS reader too...isn't everybody?

That's impressive. I've seen similar things done in the past but to do it from photo's you've posted yourself is outstanding. Congrats to the artist!

Just to reply to some posts (on my brother's behalf who made it):

Simon asked: Did you have to find each individual picture?

Yes, but it was easy with a search and then just a process of downloading them.

Swapw said: Hmm..are these images being processed by them at all or are the lighting raw like that? I’m just curious…

I'm pretty sure there's some processing going on - tinting pictures etc by the looks of it. You can tell if you look closely as some pictures are repeated and look different.

Webmaster Money said: Is that somehow automated to make that mosaic, I dont belive that you made it yourself, it is impossible… You cant have so much free time.

Nope he doesn't. AndreaMosaic is a great little programme but it still took a few attempts to get it looking good (even if the food does look like a big fried egg) and the more pictures the better. It took a little time to do but it was worth it and the results are impressive.

What do you try to eat on this picture?

Very cool. Unfortunately whenever I go out to eat now... I wonder if I should take a picture of my food and post it! haha! :razz:

WOW! how testy it was?

Wow, that looks pretty cool! Tasty too... :lol:

Steve

An evil way to gain a back link :twisted:

You think so? He's done way more evil stuff. This one almost qualifies as innocent!

An evil way of gaining a link back :twisted:

Is that somehow automated to make that mosaic, I dont belive that you made it yourself, it is impossible... You cant have so much free time.

There's plenty of really nice mosaic software out there.

AndreaPlanet is a pretty cool ap

I read the tutorial, quite easy to follow actually. You just save all your pictures, pick a matrix or main photo, and the program analyzes everything, does all the hard work for you. It's pretty sweet.

Yeah, I downloaded this a few minutes ago and had a look at it. It looks pretty straight forward.

I had trouble uploading it to a post though. I think the file became too big. :cry:

the process was really fast, the program does all the work.

Hmm..are these images being processed by them at all or are the lighting raw like that? I'm just curious...

I must say that I am very impressed with their work, pretty sweet stuff.

-Swapw :razz:

And thus John Chow the evil foodie artist is born, and the internet shall never be the same again. :grin:

... and giant pandas and baby seals shall never be safe again. A fate worse than death, I tell you. A fate WORSE THAN DEATH! :shock:

I am amazed each time I see a mosaic picture made by other pictures