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                                                   -- ideamonk and yuvipanda
                                                              #hackers-india

Purpose -

PyMos is a Python module that helps you generate a mosaic poster of an image
using a desired collection of thumbnails.

Dependencies -

    * argparse          met by setuptools
    * PIL 1.1.6+        manual
    * rtree             optional
    * libspatialindex   needed by rtree module

Usage -

1. As a command-line tool

    pymos [-h] [-z ZOOM] [-ts THUMBSIZE] [-f FUZZFACTOR] [-v] [-nc]
                input output collection

    Creates mosaics of a collection of images to closely match a target image

    positional arguments:
    input                 Input file
    output                Output file
    collection            Directory holding images to be mosaiced

    optional arguments:
    -h, --help            show this help message and exit
    -z ZOOM, --zoom ZOOM  Zoom Level (20)
    -ts THUMBSIZE, --thumbsize THUMBSIZE
                            Size of the thumbnails (60)
    -f FUZZFACTOR, --fuzzfactor FUZZFACTOR
                            Amount of randomness in ouput (0)
    -v, --verbose         Show verbose output
    -nc, --new-colormap   Regenerate color map

Notes:

    * Input files can be any standard image file supported by
      PIL (Python Imaging Library) 1.1.6+

    * a collection is just any folder that has many small images to build up
      the mosaic

    * ZOOM is the number of times input file is enlarged to make the output
      file. Eg if input file is 800x600, a zoom of 10 would give you 8000x6000

    * THUMBSIZE is the size of small pieces that would compose the output image.

    * A colormap is generated and stored for a collection (directory) in order
      to save time in regeneration. If you add new images to a collection, you
      can fire pymos with -nc option to generate a new colormap which would
      include the newly added images.

    * How to make a collection of images ?
      Well its upto you. We just saved some random thumnails from flickr.
      You could use twitter API as well to fetch display pics of your friends
      and make a mosaic using your followers :)

2. As a library -

    Example #1 Storing to a file

    from pymos.core import build_mosaic

    build_mosaic(
            input_path="foo.jpg",
            output_path="bar.png",
            collection_path="/tmp/apples",
            zoom=20,
            thumb_size=100,
            new_colormap=False
    )

    Example #1 Getting back an image

    from pymos.core import build_mosaic

    foo = build_mosaic(
            input_path="foo.jpg",
            output_path=None,               # notice the None here
            collection_path="/tmp/apples",
            zoom=20,
            thumb_size=100,
            new_colormap=False
    )

    foo.show()

PyMos on the web -

Projects using PyMos -

http://instasaic.com/ https://github.com/bluekite2000/bieber-mosaic

Feedback -

Did PyMos fail over something?
Do let us know.

Do you wish to report a big? a feedback perhaps?
Why don't you raise an issue on project page - http://github.com/ideamonk/PyMos/issues

Or do you wish to make changes to suit it to your needs?
Fork it baby - http://github.com/ideamonk/PyMos

Look into AUTHORS for mailing us.

Btw do checkout this script to grab some images from flickr for testing it http://gist.github.com/231856

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