naelvis/mosaic

Create mosaic guide given an input image and the number of tiles

mosaic

Create mosaic guide given an input image and the number of tiles

Script

I wrote this script with the following problem in mind: I wanted to make a mosaic, for which I thought of using Idee's tiles; but before buying the tiles, I needed to have an idea of how many tiles I would need for each colour.

Luckily there are detailed pictures of each kind of tile on Idee's website, so I could write a script that:

1. Takes in input an image;
2. Divides it in squares of equal dimension (tiles);
3. Fills each tile with the average colour of its content;
4. Finds for each tile the most similar tile from Idee.

Read more here.

Example

On the left the source image, on the right the image tiled with Idee's tiles:

The script also produces a version where every colour gets a different letter:

Other than providing the number of tiles for each colour:

Letter	Count
A	31
B	5
E	16
F	7
G	4
H	2
J	142
M	20
N	58
O	7
P	3
Q	213
R	81
S	561
T	526
U	42
V	782

This is me with the result: