«Let a thousand flowers bloom»

This high detailed photo mosaic of China Chairman was composed of 800 flower photos and named after the famous Mao slogan.

Mosaic details:

The mosaic was built entirely on Mac computer.

Hardware:

White MacBook with 2GHz Intel CoreDuo and 2GB RAM.

Software:

Mac OS X 10.6
Click 2 Crop for Mac to prepare 800 tile photos.
Mazaika for Mac to assemble mosaic and save it to quite a large image.

Final mosaic image

The mosaic was saved to 21,081 x 30,000 pixels tiff file. The image can be printed as 70" x 100" (180 x 250 cm) poster at 300 DPI resolution.

Photo tiles

We used 800 original flower photos as tiles images.

Every tile in the final mosaic is 400 x 400 pixels. It's 1.3" x 1.3" (3.4 x 3.4 cm) if printed at 300 DPI resolution.

This library is available to download for making your our own mosaics.

We have a small free version of the library
Download 800 tiny jpeg images 44 x 44 pixels each, 1.3 Mb zip archive.
that is good for the trial version of Mazaika and small mosaics intended to be viewed on a computer display.

For Full Version Mazaika and for mosaics printed at high resolution you may purchase high-resolution version of the library.
Buy 800 jpeg images 500 x 500 pixels each. 48.5 Mb zip archive.

Color correction

Mazaika's color correction function allows you to adjust the colors of the tiles to match to the colors of the main mosaic image

This correction is a very effective way to make a good recognizable main mosaic image and in the same time the correction works very gently and not affects or distorts tile images.

If you zoom deep into mosaic you'll see that every single flower looks quite natural. If you zoom deep into mosaic you'll see that every single flower looks very vivid and natural. These photos are not blended nor visibly superimposed with the main mosaic image. They look like normal photos, even when they were corrected.