Mosaic.Net: A Simple C# Solution for Creating Mosaic Images

Ehsan Yazdanparast
Geek Culture
Published in
8 min readNov 24, 2021

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An open-source C#/.NET project I developed to create mosaic and collage images.

Table of Contents:
· Introduction
· Tools and Technologies
· Step 1: Initialization
· Step 2: Read Input Images into Memory
· Step 3: Create Mosaic Image
· Summary of the Process
· Example Mosaic: 100 Cryptoassets Mosaices
· Final Thoughts

The complete source code for this project can be found in my Github profile.

Introduction

A photographic mosaic or simply Photomosaic, is a picture that has been divided into tiles of equal sizes, each of which is replaced with another picture that matches the original photo.

An example of a photomosaic is the thumbnail photo of this story. In that photomosaic, the original picture is the Mona Lisa painting (the masterpiece from Leonardo Da Vinci) and the tiles are the logos of 500 cryptoassets!

In this story, I am going to share a simple approach for building simple collage or mosaic pictures using C# and .NET.

Full Disclosure: Mona Lisa Mosaic of this story was created by an online Mosaic Builder. In this story, I am going to cover the basics of building simple mosaic images. This post is for demonstration purposes and the project is open-source for any external

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Ehsan Yazdanparast
Geek Culture

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