MacOSaiX

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.

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.