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1. Cool. Seeing this made my daughter quite happy :-)

   Comment by James Snell — Sunday, August 12, 2007 @ 1:10 pm

2. Next up is a release of the tight, 30-line python script you use to generate these, yes?

   Not like it would be difficult code to write, given a good Flickr library, it just seems like the next step.

   Comment by Peter Burns — Sunday, August 12, 2007 @ 2:31 pm

3. sudo aptitude install imagemagick

   In a directory of any-shaped originals (highly destructive, make a backup first!):

   mogrify -verbose -resize x360 -resize '480x<' -resize 50% -gravity center -crop 240x180+0+0 +repage *

   And to create the poster:

   montage * -geometry 240x180x0x0 -tile 18x36 ../output-4320x6480.jpg

   or

   montage * -geometry 240x180x0x0 -tile 27x24 ../output-6480x4320.jpg

   or

   montage * -resize 120x90 -geometry 120x90x0x0 -tile 6x108 -quality 50 ../output-720x9720.jpg

   I did whip up a stupid Python script to randomly rename the pictures so I could get different posters. montage doesn’t have a randomize flag.

   Comment by Mark — Sunday, August 12, 2007 @ 3:36 pm

4. Butterfly 384 and 385 are mine :-)

   Hmm, that doesn’t sound right, now does it? Let me rephrase, I saw butterfly 384 and 385 — nah, still not right. I saw two lovely butterflies, whose names I do not know, in Kew Gardens one lovely afternoon, and they kindly allowed me to take their portraits.

   Cheers,
   Jonas

   Comment by Jonas — Sunday, August 12, 2007 @ 8:17 pm

5. Ah, that’s some impressive ImageMagick-foo.

   I think I know how I’m going to fill a vacant space on the wall of my new apartment. Now the question is only which colors will go with the room.

   Oh, where to put the three or four pages of attributions.

   Comment by Peter Burns — Monday, August 13, 2007 @ 2:01 am

6. > I did whip up a stupid Python script to randomly rename the pictures so I could get different posters.

   for f in * ; do yes n | mv -i "$f" "$RANDOM.${f##*.}" ; done

   Comment by Aristotle Pagaltzis — Monday, August 13, 2007 @ 3:15 am

7. Approx 0.6% of the people are allergic to butterflies, this post might scare the hell out of one who unfortunately stumbles in here.

   Better put on a sign that reads ‘Viewer Discretion Advised’ at the top. -D

   Comment by Economics — Thursday, August 16, 2007 @ 2:51 am

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