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Creating Photo Mosaics Using Python
A step-by-step tutorial to make your own beautiful images
Code updated December 8th 2021
- Image_Tester.py no longer necessary
- Thanks to Dan Black, Johannes la Pourte, and Jordan Maurice edits and comments
Photo mosaics are an image composed of many smaller images. The smaller images possess a similar color and brightness as a position in the original image making the original image visible from a distance similar to a Claude Monet painting. There exist many online tools (paid software) to create photo mosaics, however, I decided to implement a photo mosaic creator in python3 and share it with the community. My wife is creating a new lifestyle blog and I thought what better way to help her project than by creating a beautiful image from our wedding a little over a year ago. The source code is freely available on at the Data Dolittle GitHub. Let’s begin by setting up the environment necessary to run the scripts.
The Tools
The photo mosaic program requires Pillow and numpy to process the images and matrix manipulation respectively. Follow the instructions from the text hyperlinks above to install both packages.
