Photomosaic

As everyone can attest, it is difficult to find an image that, when shrunk, enlarged and reduced to 27 colours, is still identifiable. After much experimenting, I chose the following image of a window.

Unfortunately, I saved over my original large image with the small version:

I will try to find the large version on the internet if I finish this with time to spare.

Here is my image enlarged with 27 colours. It's size is 600 by 400.

I determined that my image only used 27 colours. I used GIMP to determine the RGB values for these 10 colours. I found images that were close to these colours and I made them square and reduced their size to 25 by 25.

Well, it is coming along. I find the coding a bit frustrating. Thanks to those who found out that a double equal sign is needed in the coding!

Thanks also to Jenn who found out that a double & is also needed in the coding!

At this point in time, my program is only working for a square image. My image is rectangular. I will keep working. Here is the image so far.

I think I might have figured out why!!

I went back and read the code and, no, I'm not sure.

Here is my code:

First I read in my 10 colours and my window image:

c1=imread("brownsqsm.png");

c2=imread("blacksqsm.png");

c3=imread("coppersqsm.png");

c4=imread("darkgrsqsm.png");

c5=imread("greysqsm.png");

c6=imread("lightpksqsm.png");

c7=imread("lightgrsq.png");

c8=imread("redsqsm.png");

c9=imread("whitesqsm.png");

c10=imread("yellowsqsm.png");

D=imread("windowc27even.png");

Then I tested the window image to determine which colour should be put in each location:











I will take a break and come back to try to get those last few rows filled in.

I had a coffee and came back to this refreshed. I remember Mike saying something about using a square image. I checked a few blogs and it seems that people used a square image for their large image. I will try to change my image. I searched for my original image, the problem is that I am not sure where I found it. I think it might by Flickr - do you know that Flickr has over 2 000 000 images of windows?? I did search for a while but to no avail. I will resize my large image to be square and see what happens.

Hmmmmm, I resized my image to by 400 by 400. I used the code and this is what resulted.