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Category: Weirdness
Posted on: April 14, 2006 1:00 AM, by PZ Myers
What a waste of good cephalopod images, using them to make a mosaic of yours truly. It's made using some softward called MacOSaiX, if you're interested in trying some yourself.
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Comments
Cool. Do you think somebody could do one of me made out of... ummm... abstract ideas?
Posted by: John Wilkins | April 14, 2006 1:14 AM
Curious. The first mosaic tile I clicked on was some of that cephalod porn we've discussed her before. What are the odds of that?
Posted by: Great White Wonder | April 14, 2006 3:13 AM
ummmmm...... bigdumbchimp mosaic out of pork bbq.....droool
Posted by: bigdumbchimp | April 14, 2006 7:02 AM
Very cool!
Unfortunately, I guess the program just assumes that all the pictures it finds contain cephalopods (is it getting pix from Google Images?). Somewhere on your right cheek there's a drawing of shoes and a handbag.
And you have linoleum on your forehead.
Thought you oughta know.
Posted by: Apikoros | April 14, 2006 7:34 AM
Awesome mosaic PZ!
I think a mosaic of abstract ideas would be quite appropriate for Wilkins. What a challenge!
Posted by: Torris | April 14, 2006 8:12 AM
Pretty nifty! Artist John Ellsberry does something similar the old-fashioned way, by selecting squares of stained glass.
Posted by: Carel | April 14, 2006 9:04 AM
Cephalopods are the sincerest form of flattery.
Posted by: Heliologue | April 14, 2006 9:10 AM
All of the pics are photos from flickr.com.
I found a UFO, and an meal of octopussy.
So you're made of flying saucers, uh, er, strange meals, and lots of toddlers.
Posted by: llewelly | April 14, 2006 9:22 AM
HA! One of the pictures in the mosaic is of the Octopus Project at Emo's in Austin. Yet more proof of my theory that everything awesome happens in Austin.
Posted by: Biggs | April 14, 2006 9:31 AM
Wow, those common forms of evolution are pretty pervasive. Here's a squid from the picture that looks like a pair of tetrapods:
I guess it is more correct to say that the mosaic is created with photos that are "tagged" octopus or squid. But what can you do?
Posted by: clvrmnky | April 14, 2006 10:23 AM
Hmph. My muscle memory always sorrounds URLs in angle brackets. Serves me right for not previewing. Here 'tis: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61576666@N00/104701235/
Posted by: clvrmnky | April 14, 2006 10:24 AM
PZ looks like a lubed-up squid: http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/index.html .
Posted by: Torbjörn Larsson | April 14, 2006 11:20 AM
Posted by: Dan | April 14, 2006 12:03 PM
Dr. Myers, I've never mentioned before how much you appear to resemble a former graduate committee member. Now I picture him with powerful tentacles shooting from his forehead, and all those repressed memories of committee meetings past morph into Cthulhu-esqe horror.
*shudder*
"The most parsimonious explanation for your data is that you are incompetent"
Imagine that statement (true quote, to the best of my recollection) accompanied by rapid extension of pink tentacles.
Posted by: The Brummell | April 14, 2006 12:16 PM
slightly OT: that technique of making mosaics out of smaller images is patented.
what a stupid stupid patent.
Posted by: cleek | April 14, 2006 2:58 PM
Yum, some of those tiles made me hungry for Calamari.
Posted by: CousinoMacul | April 14, 2006 3:51 PM
On PZ's left cheek is an image of stir-fried squid from Thurlow and Robson in Vancouver, so I assume the program has just pulled images off the net.
Posted by: jrochest | April 14, 2006 5:30 PM
Wow. It's like being the love child of Chuck Close and Jacques Cousteau.
Posted by: dr. bloor | April 15, 2006 9:52 AM