- MacOSaiX has been discontinued
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Developer
Frank M. Midgley
MacOSaiX allows you to automatically create mosaics from images. Images can be automatically discovered from the following types of sources:
It's as easy as... 1,2,3:
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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:
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| Downloads:38,792 |
| Version Downloads:12,857 |
| Type:Multimedia Design : Image Editing |
| License:Free |
| Date:27 Jan 2009 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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MacOSaiX allows you to automatically create mosaics from images. Images can be automatically discovered from the following types of sources:
It's as easy as... 1,2,3:
- 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.
gwied reviewed on 02 Aug 2013
The STANDOUT UNIQUE FEATURE of MacOSaiX continues to be hexagonal tiles - using a 4:3 tile aspect ratio, i get a far better, more forgiving "crop" of my source images. The app does not need to create a "library" of images; you simply direct it to any folder or internet search/source for source images.
I used MacOSaiX in MacOS 10.6.8 to make a poster 5ft x 7ft poster - thousands of source images, 10s of MB output file, no problem - just took several hours to complete on a 2010 iMac. Do a couple small experiments; Set it up to run the way you want, then go to bed!
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And it’s still under development.
There is a new beta–but stable–version (2.2b2) on their website.
http://web.me.com/knarf/MacOSaiX/Download.html
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I've found two links:
http://macosaix.en.softonic.com/mac/download
http://download.cnet.com/MacOSaiX/3000-18488_4-27011.html
Don't forget to keep the archive — dmg, zip —
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joetaxpayer reviewed on 10 Oct 2011
This can be a great app. On my MacPro, (10.6.8) it crashes after 30-40% done. I have no way to tell why, new machine 12GB memory, and crash screen is Greek to me.
On my G4 MDD 1.42 running just Leo, it's now at 85% finished. No issue with speed, so long as it completes I'll be happy, and so far it looks good.
The way it functions is the way it should, i.e. choosing picture folder, and main image, etc, fix the crashing and I'd recommend as a paid app.
You want to see the crash report? I'm happy to crash it and send you a copy. This isn't a program I'd use often, but it's great to make a poster sized image for a party and that's exactly why I wanted a photomosaic app.
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I wrote to the author asking if he planned to fix the Intel core usability. As I mentioned in first update the G4 runs this just fine.
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Almegalli reviewed on 02 May 2011
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Maruko Drinking Team reviewed on 08 Aug 2010
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Likos reviewed on 12 Mar 2007
Thank you.
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Dalahast reviewed on 25 Jan 2007
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ThreeDee912 reviewed on 03 Jul 2006
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Anonymous reviewed on 23 Oct 2005
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Appleday88 rated on 15 Jan 2013
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joetaxpayer rated on 28 Oct 2011