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At our last day at work before Christmas — oh yeah, I got a job by the way — we decided to have a go at some comics after seeing some crazy comics
at Pandyland.

The rules? A maximum of 4 panels, and use some base imaging software. That’s it! Here are the efforts:





Yes, I’m aware mine bears more than a little similarity to Cyanide and Happiness, but that’s because I have very little imagination and graphics skills…

Today I stumbled upon this vectorising tool, called textorizer, that converts images into SVG format. You can specify your own text and size, as well as playing around with the edge-finding sensitivity.

Here’s the result on the logo used on my RSS feeds:



Obviously it works less well for full-depth images, but messing around with the threshold helps. Have fun!

Whilst browsing the Facebook Developers’ Directory, I happened upon a product called Photomosaic (thankfully not guilty of CamelCase). The product offered to create a mosaic of a profile picture using friends’ profile pictures. Being rather frustrated to find that it didn’t work, I set out to find a program to do it for me, and found AndreaMosaic (who are guilty of CamelCase).

This is the result, a mosaic of 3600 images from my pictures collection:



Anyone who wants to down the full-size image may do so, but be warned that it’s over 25MB!