How to create amazing photomosaics with Metapixel

metapixel is an application to create photomosaic From an image, in these images the main image is obtained from the combination of thumbnails of other images, which are organized into a mosaic.

Generally the package is found in most of the distros. If not, we can download it directly from the page of your creador. In Debian / Ubuntu its installation would be as follows:

sudo apt-get install metapixel

It is good to generate a folder to store our thumbnail library. In our home we create a .metapixel folder.

mkdir .metapixel

Now, we must indicate the directory path of our images that will make up our thumbnail library to make our future mosaics. For this we use the following command:

metapixel-prepare -r folder_with_the_images / .metapixel

It is understood that -r is to make it recursive and folder_with_the_imagenes / corresponds to the path where the images are.

Example :

metapixel -prepare -r / home / msdk / My_images / .metapixel

Depending on the number of images and the speed of the jar computer will be the time of this process. In the case of finding files that are not images, the program will throw some warnings, but it will not stop. Once finished we can build our photomosaics with the following command:

metapixel --metapixel source_image_file.jpg output_tile.jpg -l / path / to / library / thumbnails --cheat = 30 --width = 35 --height = 35 --metric = wavelet

They should research the options, but most of them are pretty obvious. For the rest use man or directly Saint Google to answer questions.

Example :

metapixel --metapixel default_header.jpg default_mosaico.jpg -l .metapixel / --cheat = 30 --width = 35 --height = 35 --metric = wavelet

The result would be something like this.