Mosaic

What

Displays pictures made of other pictures.

A video explains it better than a thousand words:

video.webm

Installing

poetry shell
poetry install

Using

./mosaic.py A_FOLDER_WITH_PICTURES

Detailed usage

usage: mosaic.py [-h] [-t TILES] [-p PIXELS_LIMIT] [-d DURATION] [-n] folder

Photos mosaic visualization

positional arguments:
  folder                folder containing photos

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -t TILES, --tiles TILES
                        number of tiles in each mosaic
  -p PIXELS_LIMIT, --pixels-limit PIXELS_LIMIT
                        maximum number of pixels for each texture (defaults to 640x480)
  -d DURATION, --duration DURATION
                        zooming out duration in seconds
  -n, --no-reuse        a tile can only be used once in a photo (this requires that tiles² <= #photos in folder