Photo mosaic

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Hi everyone,
Seasons Greetings to everyone.
Would anyone know how to create a photo mosaic in flame other than a manual way?
I need to create something out of 100 odd images.

Thanks for any info in advance

Happy Holidays
Deepak

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Something like this

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Put your images all in an array like that, be smart with chained together cascading axis work, and then take the image you want formed by the mosaic, comp it overtop the background you’ve made with all your tony images, and set that to overlay blend mode.

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Make sure your source images are exactly the same resolution. Take them all into action.
Create 10 axis/surface nodes. Make the first axis the parent of axis2, axis2 the parent of axis3… and mimic link axis1 to all other axes. Now when you move axis1 on x they will open out like cards. Adjust the offset. Now you have the first row.

Duplicate this 9 times and add one main Y adjust axis for all rows, parent and mimic link the same way for vertical rows.

Now you have a 10x10 grid of images

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Thanks @Sinan and @BrittCiampa
I’m going to do this tomorrow.

Cheers

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Hi @Sinan im getting stuck here, i’m doing something wrong.

Would it be possible to share a setup if you have the time?

Thanks in advance

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Hey @Deepakpais
I’m way too away from the box for the holidays. I’ll be back on the 6th.

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Cool no problem @Sinan
The brief has changed.

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Might give Replica node a shot.

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It would be a great way except for the texture mapping.
You can’t easily create a unique texture per replicated object.
Same with particles.
It’s like a concept of a plan of a motion graphics tool.

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Ah yeah, that’s a big limitation with replica.

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Does it have to be in Flame?

Seems like this kind of stuff is a lot easier in AfterEffects or C4D if you have access to either.

Ideally you’ll find a way of just arranging everything in a bin into a grid.

I remember a project where I had to have various images flying around a person, and C4D has a way of pulling in images in a folder. Also they have various cloner modifiers.

Might also find something in Blender, just not familiar with it.

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Just in case someone searches for this in the future another way to make a grid of images is to edit all your stills together into one clip then use Ls_Filmstrip like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkS_wXSheME

You’d turn “All frames same” off then render the whole clip from the begining and keep just the last frame - I’ve used it to make contact sheets of hundreds of shots which is painful to do otherwise :film_strip:

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Oh this is great @lewis i forgot about this.