Gallery of Rasturized Photos(The Rasturbator)

[habbywall]

So this is a gallery for all the pictures you have rasturized.
Go here:
homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
Nothing dirty I swear. Then select your picture and what size you want it to be and all.
I just did this one as a test. It only took up 12 pages, but I definitly plan on doing a bigger one as some wall decoration in my room. It is pretty cool.
It measures just under 3 feet by just under 3 feet.
This first one here is from about 6 feet off the ground:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a172/habbywall/IMG_2515.jpg
These next two are just of me holding it so you can compare it's size to me, I'm just under 6 feet.
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a172/habbywall/IMG_2518.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a172/habbywall/IMG_2520-1.jpg

[BluntRM]

Did you download their software or is that picture done off the website?

[habbywall]

I did it off there website. I think that unless you are doing a complicated picture then the website is fine. Because you can go up to 1 kb on the site.
And up to like 2500 sheets of paper, so you should only need the app if you plan on doing a bunch of rasturbating and you have a slow internet.

[Naomi]

They first did that by mainframe computer in the "Olden Days". On the wall at work in the computer room, are some ageing printouts. Been there for years. They have been printed on the continuous sheet paper ( about 20" or so wide ). The difference is that these "line printer" machines were only able to print text, so the pictures are made up of actual letters, numbers and punctuation. the choice of print character determines the darkness of that "pixel" and the choice of characters is made such that the shading is achieved by picking exactly what character is printed for each part of the picture. Some have been printed by overlaying more than one character to gain even darker shading.
These prints are about 35 or 40 years old. Most notable is a life sized picture of Raquel Welch. Ah well, programmers never change!


Going back further, near my home town of San Pablo, Philippines, is a tourist attraction called Villa Escudero. An old plantation, one of its nice features now is a restaurant, set in a stream below a 30 foot waterfall. You eat at tables with your feet in the stream. But in the on site museum is a picture, maybe 3 feet by 4, a black and white drawing of Jesus. Can't remember exactly what the picture shows, something like the feeding of the loaves and fishes, the important thing being that it is very, very detailed. But only if you go in really close, magnifying lens close, do you see that the picture has been created by minutely copying the entire bible onto the sheet, in minute text, line by line, and varying the intensity of each letter such that the end result is the full picture. One of the most astonishing artifacts I have ever seen. Years of work for someone who was very highly skilled.
I have been trying, without success to find a picture of it on the net, but photography is barred in the museum, and so finding pictures is difficult.



Nao

[Jerrick]

Edited to not take up a large space.


Aww, and no pictures of them...
:rolleyes:

[tobbogonist]

ok i am going to be the immature one and point out that rasturbator sounds like masturbator.
and also that a gallery of masturized photos may not entirlely be suitable for such a forum.

[Jerrick]

I have a few but cant get them up here cause I have no camera.

Its a fun program, but it was hard to find the right dot size, and paper size.

[dan de man]

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a172/habbywall/IMG_2520-1.jpg
omg omg omg its habby's real face

[podzol]

Is that a beagle?

[sparrowhawk]

omg omg omg its habby's real face


or...is it???


;)

[habbywall]

Yeah, it's a beagle, and it's really me.

[dan de man]

or...is it???


;)
* cue creepy x-files music and a bus loads of violinst's to come down the road*

[JJtheunicycle]

Is that a beagle?
i thought you were talking about him for a second:o

[Jerrick]

What size dots did you use for that?

I think using 4mm is the best choice. At least for all the pictures I have done.

[habbywall]

I used 7mm dots.

[UniTyler]

10mm dots of goodness.

[carsonpalooza]

here's a test one of Dan Heaton. it's a 2 by 2 and because it was to test it out I used the laser printer so it missed up certain parts but it still came out good.

[habbywall]

bump

Okay, I am thinking about doing another one. It will be my fourth, I did that first one to start this thread, then did another one at school but it got taken away.
I also did this one here at home.
I'm not sure what to do next though, I was thinking about doing this (http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/PYR/MPP0878-John-Lennon-(liber~John-Lennon-Liberty-Posters.jpg) John Lennon one.
Could you give me some advice about what I should put up on my wall?
What do you think would be meaningful to me, not what exact picture but in what type of picture range?
Here's the one I have on my wall next to my computer, sorry about the bad pic:

[habbywall]

Okay, heres another one, sorry about the bad pic again, but I am taking these with my isight cause I can't find the right batterys for my real camera.
Here's the john lennon one I just put up, sorry about having that hockey net frame in the way, I just didn't feel like moving it.
It looks much better in person too by the way.
I still need ideas for my next picture too!
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a172/habbywall/Photo34.jpg

[skrobo]

how does it work?
i have the outline thingy I did, but the size is MASSIVE

[habbywall]

What outline thingy are you talking about?

[skrobo]

What outline thingy are you talking about?
http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=299274&g2_serialNumber=2&g2_GALLERYSID=b9b696881cf553dce17948253764d58f

or this one... i think it will look better

http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/image.php?u=12272&dateline=1159032207&type=profile

[habbywall]

I think the second one will look better.
Much better, this is meant for color or black and white photos, not single black one white, you need some contrast in there for it too look good.