Shoutbox

Im working on a website called a million smiles.

The basic idea is that you upload an image and it is stored on the server, then people can upload another image, and a collage of that image is created from images other people have submitted.

What do you think.

So far I have finished one of the two hardest bits - a script to work out the average colour of an image.

I think its a nice idea, I'll love it to see it finished.

Good idea. Would love 2 see it. Inform us when its complete

It sounds pretty cool to me, I can't wait to see the final product, it sounds really tinteresting tbh ...

[edit]but as you told me, it edits the last person image, surely that image has already been edited to the persons mosaic previous to that, it would make no sence, because it would just be putting a picture a picture, and would get messed up, with lots of different parts of peoples faces? am I correct?

the output image would look like this...

http://www.whimsy.freeserve.co.uk/goldpix/mosaic-esteban-zia.jpg

thats cool, i'm intrigued to learn more about such a project, I can't see how its very possible without months of coding...

Looks great, so... you take the average color of every picture that is uploaded. Then you get the average color of a segment in a new uploaded picture, and put there an image with the same average color. You that with all "segments" in picture, and that's the result? Good Idea.

at the moment it isnt too hard.

the easy parts are the basic every day things like creating an upload script, and storing in databases.

The hard bits are working out the average colour of the image uploaded (done) and working out the average colour of 20x20 tiles, then finding a match from the database.

Also this will need a lot of server resources, so i will need to find some way of generating finance for a server. And then once ive done that, I need to find a way of generating money to keep the server alive.

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Originally posted by saralk
Also this will need a lot of server resources, so i will need to find some way of generating finance for a server. And then once ive done that, I need to find a way of generating money to keep the server alive.

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You should try... I don't know.. to sell 20x20 advertisments. Well you place  20x20 banners in the database, that match some color, that way.. when a new image is generated, there will be publicity in the collage....

Sounds like you'll have to divide the base image into blocks and apply your "average color" script to each one, because if you "duplicated" the base image pixel-by-pixel, the output image would have to be huge in order to see the detail of each of the small images that create the mosiac.

And how will you find which images already on the server are the closest match to the color you need?

And what if the base image has a large area of the same color? Will the same small image be used for the whole area?

Will the output be a single image with all the small images imagecopy()ed into it?

IMO, the average color script doesn't sound like "one of the two hardest bits"