| Whilst you are at it... https://github.com/openseadragon/openseadragon A photo mosaic demands to have photos that are high resolution. You don't want to zoom in to find blurry jpegs, it just isn't right! I have had great fun with OpenSeadragon in the past and now there is the VIPS image processing library for writing out a massive set of image tiles. Hence it is possible to work with thumbnails and then render out the thing with OpenSeadragon and VIPS. OpenSeadragon was amazing when it was a Microsoft demo a few decades ago, but time has moved on. I wonder what can be done with tilesets in HTML5 with picture tags or in SVG to present a infinitely zoomable montage. I like your suggestion and the options for rotating and clipping images with SVG methods. I always confuse mask and clip, but, in SVG, much could be done. For me, the starting point would be to do an SVG with thousands of images in it, to just watch my computer crash as I step up the resolution. Really I want to recreate OpenSeadragon in SVG... |