Flickr montages

Posted by Scott Laird Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:28:45 GMT

I’ve been working on a cool new toy–a Ruby script that sucks up all of the images from a Flickr photo set and turns them into a random montage. The results are surprisingly pleasing, at least to me:

Once we’ve pushed the next Typo release out the door, I have a few ideas for cool and useful things to add to Typo, but you’ll have to wait to see what they are.

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  1. Tim Lucas said about 7 hours later:

    Nice stuff!

  2. Ted Leung said about 12 hours later:

    So are you gonna post this cool toy?

  3. Doug Alcorn said about 18 hours later:

    I think this effect is cool. You’ve done a nice job balancing visibility with the haphazard layout.

    One thing is the load time for these images is pretty slow. I’d like it if you looked at optimizing the jpg a little more.

    I’m sure you’re already aware of this, but just wanted to let you know someone else was too ;-)

  4. Scott Laird said about 20 hours later:

    It’s slow because they’re PNGs, not JPEGs right now. I’ve been trying to maintain the transparent effect, but I’m not sure that it’s worth the bandwidth costs or load times; my bandwidth yesterday was double my daily average (although that can vary a lot), around 650 MB, and today will probably be similar.

    It’s possible that I’m missing a compression setting or something, too–until a couple hours ago, RMagick was saving these at 16-bit PNGs, which really didn’t help the filesize.

  5. Scott Laird said about 20 hours later:

    Yep. I need to finish cleaning up some of the code first, though–right now, the image size is hard-coded into the source, and it gets that wrong anyway–notice the overflow on the HTML version of the site. I need to shove the code for this into a library and then put out a pair of front ends–one for Flickr and one for a directory full of images.

    I’m concentrating on Typo 2.5.7 at the moment, but I’d like to finish both projects in the next couple days.

  6. Premshree Pillai said 7 months later:

    You’re using ImageMagick I’m guessing?

  7. Kyle Heon said 10 months later:

    Noticed in the comments that you were planning on releasing this montage code. I wasn’t able to find anything on this site that showcased it’s release, wondering if you still had plans to do so.

  8. Scott Laird said 10 months later:

    Yeah, I spent a few hours on it last month, and almost released it, but something came up. I’ll see if I can get to it again in a couple days.

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