Wosaic
Ever wondered what you could do with all the hundreds of digital pictures that you've accumulated? Why not make a mosaic?
Wosaic is an open source project that allows you to recreate an existing image by using many smaller images, as shown above. It was started as a project for CS 242 - Programming Studio at UIUC, and will be continuing on to Engineering Open House in the Spring of 2008.
Wosaic is not the only program of its kind. Several other solutions already exist, however Wosaic aims to be free, easy to use, fast, and accessible. These qualities are yet to be found in any single existing solution. We're also aiming to make use of interesting sources for images. Currently, we support Flickr, Facebook, and local sources, but we hope to expand this to possibly include images from Picassa, and hopefully other sources as well.
Features
- Easily create a mosaic out of an image on your disk
- Utilizes Flickr, Facebook, and local directories for images
- Supports concurrency to provide fast results
- Shows progress by constructing the mosaic right before your eyes!
- Programmed in Java
- It is FREE and released under the GNU GPL v2.
News
- (3/12/2008) - We've released 1.0 beta version of Wosaic! This release represents a major rewrite in the code for the GUI and general control flow. While this won't be immediately apparent at first glance, this means major efficiency gains and better stability. All users are encouraged to upgrade. For details, please see the ReleaseNotes. Binaries are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
- (3/9/2008) - Wosaic was presented at the UIUC Engineering Open House this weekend, and was a major success! Thanks to everyone for coming out-- we made over 100 mosaics for people visiting our booth. Also, Wosaic won 3rd place for non-technical exhibits. For details, click here.
- (2/17/2008) - Wosaic 0.1 Beta 1 has been officially released! See the Featured Downloads for source code as well as Windows, Linux, and Mac binaries and installers. There is also javadoc documentation available in the downloads section. The featured wiki pages README, Install, and Compile contain detailed instructions about setting up Wosaic, if you run into any problems in installation. As always, we welcome comments on any of our wiki pages, as well as on our discussion forum
Support
YourKit is kindly supporting open source projects with its full-featured Java Profiler. YourKit, LLC is creator of innovative and intelligent tools for profiling Java and .NET applications. Take a look at YourKit's leading software products: YourKit Java Profiler and YourKit .NET Profiler.
