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DESCRIPTION

MacOSaiX allows you to automatically create mosaics from images. Images can be automatically discovered from the following types of sources:

  • Local folders
  • Image randomly generated from the fonts on your computer
  • Google Image Search
  • Yahoo's flickr photo-sharing service
  • iPhoto albums or keywords
  • QuickTime movies

It's as easy as... 1,2,3:

  • Choose the image you want to make a mosaic from.
  • Choose the shape and number of tiles in the mosaic.
  • Choose the sources of images to use for the tiles.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.1:

New Features:

  • Added an iTunes album artwork image source.
  • Added a Delicious Library image source.
  • flickr image sources can now search using flickr groups.
  • Google image sources can now search for news or face images.
  • Google image sources can now search the database of LIFE images.
  • Support for transparency:
    • in original images
    • in images placed in tiles
    • in images created by the Glyphs image source
    • when saving a mosaic as JPG, PNG or TIFF
  • Now showing how well the mosaic matches the original image.
  • Mosaics made with small numbers of images now look better.
  • Image sources can now report errors when finding images.
  • Images can now be repeated in adjacent tiles.
  • Mosaics can now be as small as one tile by one tile.
Performance Improvements:
  • Now taking better advantage of Macs with multiple CPUs/cores.
  • Mosaics that allow image repeats are now created much faster.
  • Images are now pulled from QuickTime movies much faster.
  • Can now save images at larger sizes.
  • Improved handling of very large images from sources.
Bugs Fixed:
  • The image usage rules (repeats, distance apart) are now always honored.
  • CMYK images are now handled correctly.
  • No longer crashing when iPhoto is not installed.
  • No longer crashing when Google becomes inaccessible.
  • No longer stopping after finding 21 Google images.
  • No longer crashing when an image source is added to a mosaic with no original image.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later.

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Developer:Frank M. Midgley
Downloads:30,033
  - Version d/l:4,104
Multimedia & Design:Image Editing
License:Free
Date:27 Jan 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
****½

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Aug 25 2008

ROBERTO BELLINA  This app crashes every time I try to open it....just after the start...loved this one years ago, but now it seem that the developer doesn't follow this project anymore...OSX 10.4.11 on powerbook  
(Version 2.0)

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Nov 22 2007

TICE  Bumps a few times in the Dock and than crashes. Mac OS X.5 Leopard 10.5.0  
(Version 2.0)

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Nov 25 2007

FRANK MIDGLEY  There is a bug in 2.0 that causes MacOSaiX to crash if iPhoto is not installed. You can either re-install iPhoto or disable the MacOSaiX iPhoto plug-in. (By choosing "Get Info" on MacOSaiX in the Finder.) The bug has already been fixed for the next release.  
(Version 2.0)

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Nov 25 2007

TICE  Great, thanks, that worked! : D  
(Version 2.0)

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Mar 12 2007
*****

LIKOS  I've been using this since the first beta. Great Application. Not only that but you have continued development.

Thank you.  
(Version 2.0a7)

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Jul 3 2006
****½

THREEDEE912  This is one great app! It's slow, but I guess you can expect that when it is working with 2000+ photos. great features, and it's still being developed! Can't wait till it's out of alpha. I even used this for the title page of the school yearbook!  
(Version 2.0a6)

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Oct 23 2005
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JAY  EXCELLENT application!! A lot of fun placing pictures from one's own photo library, the internet, and even movies (either home made or theatrically released) onto favourite photos, mosaic style. For amateur or professional use. Great stuff!  
(Version 2.0a5)

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May 3 2005
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TIMPLASTER  AMAZING. I don't know how this works, but it's great. It takes a long time, but "you can't rush art". This is an amazing app, and for free too!!

Great tutorial by the way. Seriously, this program is excellent, thank you.  
(Version 2.0a3)

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May 2 2005

LUPE  Unexpectedly quits when I close the document window without completing a project.   
(Version 2.0a3)

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Apr 30 2005
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ANONYMOUS  This program would be nice if it didn't crash after a long period of working on my powerbook, AND even better if it could cache the images it finds and remember their patterns, etc., so as to be quicker in gathering them for other images :-)  
(Version 2.0a2)

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Mar 30 2005

ANONYMOUS  Why does this program try to connect to 17.250.248.34 every time I start it up? Otherwise it is a nice program after blocking it from connecting to that IP.  
(Version 2.0a2)

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Mar 30 2005

ANONYMOUS  Just a guess: it is performing 'version checking'. But make sure and keep your tinfoil hat on, just in case!  
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Mar 13 2005
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GREGJSMITH  The latest version is much improved, especially in the speed of the UI. It still has it's bugs but it is a alpha after all. I put together a tutorial on making mosaics with MacOSaiX you might be interested in.  
(Version 2.0a2)

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