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juan osborne YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	Images composed with words Jun 10th, 2010, 3:06pm   I just want to share with you my collection of images created with processing. http://www.juanosborne.com/ Any feedback will be wellcome.

Cedric God Member Offline Posts: 1838	Re: Images composed with words Reply #1 - Jun 10th, 2010, 3:21pm   wow, great. probably some of the best ones of this kind that i have seen so far. some of your rules are obvious, scale some of the words by brightness, etc... but how the hell did you manage to align them? looks really fluent. But looking at your portfolio, it seems like you are a image-word-composing-pro
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juan osborne YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	Re: Images composed with words Reply #2 - Jun 10th, 2010, 3:30pm   Thank you Cedric!, My approach to it mostly by brute force and a lot of randomness

Cedric God Member Offline Posts: 1838	Re: Images composed with words Reply #3 - Jun 10th, 2010, 3:32pm   how long does it take to create one of these images then?
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juan osborne YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13

Re: Images composed with words Reply #4 - Jun 10th, 2010, 3:38pm   Cedric wrote on Jun 10th, 2010, 3:32pm: how long does it take to create one of these images then Humm it depends... from a few minutes to hours... There is a lot of variables. I spend more time making tryouts with different combinations of word sizes and retouching the seed image. I also have a useful postproduction tool that let me play with the computed image. Take a look at http://juanosborne.com/2010/04/21/che-guevara/

GianCarlo Junior Member Offline Posts: 78 Italy	Re: Images composed with words Reply #5 - Jun 11th, 2010, 12:09am   juan osborne wrote on Jun 10th, 2010, 3:06pm: Any feedback will be wellcome. Wow. Very original. I bet the Time Magazine sooner or later will ask you to create a cover for them. Congratulations.

juan osborne YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	Re: Images composed with words Reply #6 - Jun 11th, 2010, 9:43am   Thank you very much GianCarlo!, If you have the Time telephone number send it to me!!!

Bejoscha Full Member Offline Posts: 120	Re: Images composed with words Reply #7 - Jun 16th, 2010, 4:51am   Very, very impressive. How long (in code-lines) is the processing code to do this?

juan osborne YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	Re: Images composed with words Reply #8 - Jun 16th, 2010, 9:28am   Hummm no idea... let me count it... It's about 700 lines of code... but, you know, there si a lot of comments and probably I could reduce it a lot... Thank you!

yelele_eu Junior Member Offline Posts: 68	Re: Images composed with words Reply #9 - Jun 16th, 2010, 11:38am   Really well done !

guss YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 14	Re: Images composed with words Reply #10 - Jun 16th, 2010, 2:56pm   Simply amazing! What i really don't get is how you're able to determine the flow of the image so well, are you willing to shed some light onto your secret? :>

juan osborne YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	Re: Images composed with words Reply #11 - Jun 16th, 2010, 3:03pm   It's indeed quite simply. The basic rule is the lighter the higher font... But ok, usually I spend the most of my time looking for a 'good' seed image or retouching it with an image editor. If the seed image is too flatten, in terms of color levels, the words will look flatten too. Thank for your comments!

guss YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 14	Re: Images composed with words Reply #12 - Jun 16th, 2010, 3:23pm   Well sure, the lighter color equals bigger font even i could figure out :p But the thing i don't understand is how you're determining the angle of the words because they're really following the topology of the face (on the images with faces that is) which is amazing if you ask me!

juan osborne YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	Re: Images composed with words Reply #13 - Jun 16th, 2010, 3:38pm   Well, the program just try to find the best position for each word. The words fits in the lighter areas, and these areas area fluent mostly because of the light of the portrait and the face topology. It's just a find-best-position and place-the-word endless iteration.

guss YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 14	Re: Images composed with words Reply #14 - Jun 16th, 2010, 3:48pm   Still is magic to me though. :p But i guess i just don't know enough about image analysis... yet.