EVE General Discussion

Umm, okay, I don't mean to **** on anyones work but... this is NOT what it seems.

If you zoom in you will notice the only reason it looks like that ship is because of all the effects place on top of the pictures. You could make each of those faces a log of **** and it would still come out looking similar enough.

This kind of artwork is most impressive when the original images being used are not altered or having macro sized effects and layers placed on top of it.

Not sure what you are talking about? There's no "transparent" image placed on top of it, if so feel free to explain why some of the images are mirrored compared to their originals, surely that would not be needed if there's just a transparent image overlay.

The avatars are indeed allowed to be slightly altered in terms of colors (up to a certain %), as well as being mirrored. Beyond that I'm not sure what macro effects are.

But if you have an easier way to to create stuff like this I'm all ears to learn

/c

When I first looked I was thinking, oh he did a screen shot then [filter[[canvas] tweek, adjust, tweek, adjust, save.

Then I accidentally used the mouse wheel and realized you could zoom in and out and could see the faces when zoomed way in.

There are a lot of Sith in that Talwar.

Impressive, Chribba. Most impressive.

For those that think some graphics manipulation of some kind was used to make the picture other than the actual player images check this out.

This is Rozeta Cristofer. First row, 25th image over.

I found the image using Eve Faces

Saved the image and cropped it to size. I assume the images size and quality was reduced in the Talwar to keep the size of the finished image within a reasonable size. Though the Armageddon mosaic weighed in at 46.9MB(file size) 1.5GB(in memory) compared to the 1.4MB(file size) 18.6MB(in memory) for the Talwar.

jpg vs .png makes a big difference I see.

Must not starting looking for familiar faces...

I will not..

No.. That would take all night


NO /o\

Damn!!

That's pretty cool, spent a long time looking (all weekend actually lol), then browsed ahead in the forums and found the list of names

I hate you for basing the images off 'likes'

Awesome work Chirbs .... I made the last one you did but your faulty (it must be) software did not pick me.

I'm not Maliandra, but I had the same thought though. There is plenty of software available on the Internet which does exactly what you did. I tested a few of them (tried to generate a face out of many face pictures) and then worked with one of it. The programs would offer you a folder where you save a lot of pictures. Then it will ask you if you allow rotation, flipping, change of saturation, change of brightness etc. of the input file. Then you tell which is the "original picture" which it should assemble and you can later tell the amount of overlay, meaning the amount it should merge the original picture into the mosaic.
Since the mosaic parts are very small, one can't really tell how much, if at all, overlay you had activated. I read you used 20k input picture. Not sure how many pixels your output picture has, but from there you can tell how many pixels per input picture are shown, if you look at it in full size. At that ratio it is hard to tell if how much overlay went into it, and actually it doesn't really matter. The effect that it was made from portraits is also lost in that resolution.
True art comes (from my understanding) when you can achieve the same effect by using considerably less pictures. Let's assume you used 160 x 120 portraits, which is 19,200 portraits in total. Now decrease that to 40 x 30 portraits, which is 1,200 portraits in total.
If you look at one of the launcher points of the Talwar, you can see that it it made from roughly 5 x 7 = portraits. You could try to reduce that to 4 portraits, so that the dark part of it is the black hair or a person, and the bright part of it is the face (just as an idea).
Anyway, I appreciate your effort and artwork and I hope that you take my lines as "constructive criticism". As I already mentioned, I also work on such projects once in a while (though not EVE related), and if you are interested we can learn from each others experience and ideas.

Regards, Maru Sha.

Ok, then I can understand the message you want to promote here. :-)

It would be unfortunate if some people miss it (as already mentioned here) and not zoom in. When I first looked at it, I thought "okay a Talwar picture with an artificial moiré pattern" until I found the (+) and (-) at the bottom.