Dashboard contest-and mosaic-complete

russ, it is available as a direct download from the blog right now. I have had a few people mention that they would make a torrent file for me. Just waiting for one to come in.

BTW, MacOSaiX does the job pretty well. in terms of Mac mosaiac progs, mozodojo is alright, with a bit more of a mac-centric interface, but I dont like the final output quite as much...

Flickr?! Wheres the torrent file? someones gotta be seeding this by now, right?

Out of curiosity, does anyone know of a good photomosaic program for OS X?

Thanks John. Some people have been writing me asking if they would get in trouble if they made a mosaic with the screenshots. I assured them it would be ok.

#2 is a troll. While it's true that Robert Silvers does have several patents regarding photomosaics, it's not widely known if they will hold up to a legal challenge against them. It is very easy to find prior art (Kodak used photomosaics in widely-broadcast television and print ad campaigns in the early 90's) and if you take the concept in a more general sense, the general idea of how a photomosaic works goes back as far as impressionist painting or arguably even ancient ceramic or glass tile mosaics. There are probably 20-30 (maybe more) commercial photomosaic software packages on the market. I would place bets that few if any of them license patents from Robert Silvers company. Please note that I am not trying to discount Robert Silvers work or his desire to patent his methods for generating mosaics; I just believe that he has a very weak hold on the whole concept of a photo mosaic.

That Mosaic, while neat, was created by a program which infringes a US Patent. http://photomosaic.com/

/me suggests Flickr.com for sharing. But maybe that was a little too obvious.