# Photo mosaic
**URL:** https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924
**Category:** Flame Questions
**Tags:** action, batch
**Created:** [December 26, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924 "2024-12-26T13:32:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Deepakpais](https://forum.logik.tv/u/Deepakpais)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/1 "2024-12-26T13:32:02Z")
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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### Author:  [@Deepakpais](https://forum.logik.tv/u/Deepakpais)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/2 "2024-12-26T13:49:02Z")
Something like this
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### Author:  [@BrittCiampa](https://forum.logik.tv/u/BrittCiampa)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/3 "2024-12-26T14:17:10Z")
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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### Author:  [@Sinan](https://forum.logik.tv/u/Sinan)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/4 "2024-12-26T15:19:46Z")
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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### Author:  [@Deepakpais](https://forum.logik.tv/u/Deepakpais)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/5 "2024-12-26T15:36:25Z")
Thanks @Sinan and @BrittCiampa
I’m going to do this tomorrow.
Cheers
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### Author:  [@Deepakpais](https://forum.logik.tv/u/Deepakpais)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2024, 4:27am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/6 "2024-12-27T04:27:56Z")
> [@Sinan](#):
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> 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
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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### Author:  [@Sinan](https://forum.logik.tv/u/Sinan)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2024, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/7 "2024-12-27T10:20:02Z")
Hey @Deepakpais
I’m way too away from the box for the holidays. I’ll be back on the 6th.
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### Author:  [@Deepakpais](https://forum.logik.tv/u/Deepakpais)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2024, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/8 "2024-12-27T10:25:04Z")
Cool no problem @Sinan
The brief has changed.
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### Author:  [@GPM](https://forum.logik.tv/u/GPM)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/9 "2024-12-28T00:41:13Z")
Might give Replica node a shot.
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### Author:  [@philm](https://forum.logik.tv/u/philm)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/10 "2024-12-28T00:49:23Z")
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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### Author:  [@GPM](https://forum.logik.tv/u/GPM)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2024, 5:15am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/11 "2024-12-28T05:15:42Z")
Ah yeah, that’s a big limitation with replica.
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### Author:  [@allklier](https://forum.logik.tv/u/allklier)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/12 "2024-12-28T13:31:30Z")
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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### Author:  [@lewis](https://forum.logik.tv/u/lewis)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/13 "2024-12-30T13:21:31Z")
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](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 🎞
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### Author:  [@Deepakpais](https://forum.logik.tv/u/Deepakpais)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2024, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/14 "2024-12-30T13:43:49Z")
Oh this is great @lewis i forgot about this.
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### Author:  [@leowoo](https://forum.logik.tv/u/leowoo)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2026, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/15 "2026-07-12T23:33:59Z")
I needed to make a “contact sheet” of a sequence of video stills today and your Filmstrip matchbox totally saved my bacon @lewis Thank you so much!!!
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### Author:  [@Baranz](https://forum.logik.tv/u/Baranz)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2026, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/photo-mosaic/11924/16 "2026-07-13T10:37:29Z")
> [@Deepakpais](#):
>
> 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
Hey,
You might want to try using TurboMosaic: [https://www.turbomosaic.com/](https://www.turbomosaic.com/)
It allows you to gather source photos and use them to create a mosaic image.