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Photomosaic Portraits
Robert Silvers Manufacturer: Studio ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover  History & Criticism
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Famous faces seen as never before, from the creator and sole practitioner of the hottest new digital age art formRobert Silvers's photomosaics have awed and enthralled hundreds of thousands, not only in his books but also on magazine covers, movie posters, games, and puzzles. His specially commissioned photomosaic portraits appear everywhere from the collections of Al Gore, Bill Gates, and the Library of Congress to MasterCard's award-winning print and TV advertising. Photomosaic Portraits includes Michael Jordan assembled from miniatures of the twentieth century's top athletes and Richard Nixon composed from photos of his enemies (including himself). Rich with humor and meaning, every one will spark party conversation or rapt hours of solitary contemplation.
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Simply Astonishing.........2000-12-07
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Photomosaics
Manufacturer: Owl Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions
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Beautiful and intricate.......2000-07-25
Do you need a book for your coffee table?.......2000-05-27
New art for everyone's home - spend hours relaxing.......1999-11-03
Cool, cool, cool. I'm so envious of the people involved!.......1998-04-01
A Photomosaic is, as the name suggests, a mosaic of photos. Hundreds or thousands of images reduced in size and placed on a grid so as to create an impression of a larger, overall image. The 'tiles' used are selected for their color, shapes and shading within the image so as to most truthfully represent the relevant section of the larger image. What's more, the descriptive content of the 'tiles' is usually relevant to the larger image. Some of the best examples of this are the widescreen stills used from George Lucas's Star Wars in generating larger images of Darth Vader, and Yoda, and civil war photographs used to create an image of Abraham Lincoln.
The book contains 96 pages with 28 full page photomosaics, and in addition often has enlarged sections of each image to show the smaller image content. Interspersed with the images are thought provoking quotes relating to the pictures, and an all too short introduction briefly describes how photomosaics came about. (Not technical enough in my opinion). The images are created in a 6 color printing process for exceptional quality results
This is is one of those ideas where I think to myself - 'I wish I'd been involved in this'. As the artist/creator Robert Silvers says - 'This is for lovers of pictures'. One of my main interests in computing is the generation of images by use of computers, whether it be popular methods such as fractals, ray-tracing or any other form of computer art. Even the 3D Eye auto-stereogram pictures are computer generated. (I assumed the dig on the back cover in respect of the fact that everyone can see photomosaics, was in reference to these auto-stereograms!)
This concept of using pictures to create pictures seems simple on the surface and sounds like another easy money maker for someone along the line. Maybe it is, but the technology behind creating such pictures is leading edge and was performed by Rob Silvers as part of his Masters at MIT Media Lab. The amount of work involved in collating tens of thousands of images from all sorts of sources, and then analyzing each image as to color and shading content, underlying shapes within the image, and descriptive content of the images is immense. All sorts of tricks were used to speed up and improve the quality of the photomosaics produced.
If I were to have this as a coffee-table book at a party, I would need one per visiting guest, and I would get a quiet thirty seconds whilst people got the gist of the book and then it would be the talk of the evening. (Maybe that's an indication of my guests rather than the book!)
I would dearly have loved to have been involved at that exciting development stage of the (patent pending) technology, but sadly this book is likely to be as near to being involved as I ever get. Mind you it is hard, in any case, not to get involved with this fascinating book. I shall be putting an order in for my 1999 calender as soon as it comes out.
This review comes from somebody who does NOT live in Boston, unlike many other reviewers!!
Excellent.......1997-11-13
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FOTOMOSAICOS A LA MEXICANA.(desarrollo de programa computacional para creación de mosaicos formados con imágenes fotográficas)(TT: Mexican-style photomosaics.)(TA: ... Breve): An article from: Contenido
Guillermo C. Aguilera Manufacturer: Editorial Contenido, S.A. de C.V. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008IFF6S Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Contenido, published by Editorial Contenido, S.A. de C.V. on June 1, 2001. The length of the article is 839 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.|
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Photomosaics
Robert Silvers Manufacturer: Owl Book/Henry Holt ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000NUMIR0 |
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Robert Silvers Photomosaics
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PR Newswire : Miss Teen USA and E! Makeover Maven Leon Hall on Hand to Unveil Photomosaic Billboard of New Mr. Pringles; P&G Donates One Dollar Per Photo to Youth Empowerment Organization SHiNE.
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Controlled photomosaic of the MTM 05142 quadrangle, Gordii Dorsum Region of Mars (SuDoc I 19.91:I-2425)
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Controlled photomosaic of the MTM -10127 quadrangle, Arsia Mons Region of Mars (SuDoc I 19.91:I-2172)
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Controlled photomosaic of the MTM 15127 quadrangle, Olympus Mons Region of Mars (SuDoc I 19.91:I-2228)
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