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Post your Rasterbations!

edesignuk

edesignuk

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The Rasterbator was posted here quite some time ago, and is a pretty nifty (web)application. So, let's see your Rasterbations, if you don't have any, then get busy!

I don't know why, but I'd never actually printed one up until tonight. Now I have, and I wanna see what you lot have done :D


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emw

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edesignuk said:
The Rasterbator was posted here quite some time ago, and is a pretty nifty (web)application. So, let's see your Rasterbations, if you don't have any, then get busy!

I don't know why, but I'd never actually printed one up until tonight. Now I have, and I wanna see what you lot have done :D


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Cool image. Who's it a picture of? ;) :D
 
edesignuk

edesignuk

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emw said:
Cool image. Who's it a picture of? ;) :D
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I have no idea, just something I happened upon ;) :p

Anyway, this isn't about *that*. Just wanted to give the old "let's see what you've rasterbated" another go, curious to see others. What images they've chosen, where they've put them, how large etc.
 
emw

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It's always difficult to admit to yourself that you're a moron, but this is one of those cases.

I decided that I would go ahead and rasterbate an image of my family (whoever came up with that term has a sense of humor), and it's not going so well. I made it big (in terms of pages) but then I couldn't view it all at once.

So I made it a single page. Here's what it looks like:

Family.jpg


Yikes!

If I zoom out on it, you can start to see what it's supposed to look like:

Zoomed.jpg


So my question is - what am I doing wrong? :confused:
 
stoid

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So long, and thanks for all the fish!
emw said:
It's always difficult to admit to yourself that you're a moron, but this is one of those cases.

I decided that I would go ahead and rasterbate an image of my family (whoever came up with that term has a sense of humor), and it's not going so well. I made it big (in terms of pages) but then I couldn't view it all at once.

So I made it a single page. Here's what it looks like:

Yikes!

If I zoom out on it, you can start to see what it's supposed to look like:

Zoomed.jpg


So my question is - what am I doing wrong? :confused:
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The idea of the rasterbator is that you print out all the pages and piece them back together so that you can use a small image to make an enormous display. For instance, I have a small screen cap of Darth Vader that is now on my bedroom wall 6 feet wide! I'll post a pic in a bit.
 
jsw

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emw said:
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If I zoom out on it, you can start to see what it's supposed to look like:

Zoomed.jpg


So my question is - what am I doing wrong? :confused:
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Use more pages and the smallest possible max dot size (7mm, I think). That'll do the trick!
 
emw

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jsw said:
Use more pages and the smallest possible max dot size (7mm, I think). That'll do the trick!
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I realize the idea behind printing out a lot of pages and getting a wall-sized posted. That I've done.

I just didn't post my question very well. I assumed e had made his image only one page to upload for us to see, vs. taking a picture of many pages put together. Perhaps I am mistaken, and the only way to get a reasonable image like what e posted (aside from using Keira, of course) is to photograph the complete printout once you've hung it up.

Edit: Nevermind, in taking a closer look, I can see Keira's pinned to a bulletin board.
 
decksnap

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This is a raster of the immortal Buckethead. I cut and mounted each page onto blackboard, then cut them again so I would have nice tiles to mount on the wall.
 

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mkrishnan

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apple2991 said:
Tough call. They're both pretty pretentious.
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My, you're just not a happy camper, are you? :(

I like the color. Definitely brings out the glowing eyes. :p

Oh, and since hardly anyone read my thread on the topic, this is a perfect example. I know some of you use Firefox!

Does this flash drive your firefox crazy, or do I have a setting issue? Whenever I scroll the window or even move stuff around, half the flash app fails to update, and big pieces of it go blank. Then I have to mouse around in the dark to find one of the toggle buttons that includes a refresh. I see this failure to buffer on a lot of Flash, only in Firefox. Is there a fix?
 
Mitthrawnuruodo

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mkrishnan said:
My, you're just not a happy camper, are you? :(

I like the color. Definitely brings out the glowing eyes. :p
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Just ignore apple2991, who apperently has misplaced her smilies, or manners... :p

mkrishnan said:
Oh, and since hardly anyone read my thread on the topic, this is a perfect example. I know some of you use Firefox!

Does this flash drive your firefox crazy, or do I have a setting issue? Whenever I scroll the window or even move stuff around, half the flash app fails to update, and big pieces of it go blank. Then I have to mouse around in the dark to find one of the toggle buttons that includes a refresh. I see this failure to buffer on a lot of Flash, only in Firefox. Is there a fix?
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I have Firefox, I read the other thread, and I still have no idea what you're talking about... What am I missing...? And maybe that discussion should continue back in your thread...?
 
Mitthrawnuruodo

Mitthrawnuruodo

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mkrishnan said:
Wow, okay, I'm so sorry!

Here's the raster I was working on. And then I'll leave.
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No need to appologize, or leave for that matter, I'm a sucker for cross-thread links myself, but there are rules about staying on topic, and this thread is started by one of the newest members of the mod squad... ;) (I'm sorry if that one's been used before :D)... and, so, to stay on topic:

Nice rasterbation... :)

By the way, the word rasterbation reminds somewhat strangly familiar... I just don't seem able to get a hold of it... :p
 
decksnap

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No- they don't have to be high quality- in fact, I think they have to be under 1 Mb. The one I posted was actually a fairly tiny web image. If you're doing many pages, they standard dot size should be fine, but if you're doing one that's only like 4 or 8 pages you'll want to decrease the dot size.
 
JDar

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Mitthrawnuruodo said:
Cannot deside whether I like it best in colour or b/w...
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is it possible to do the b&w but keep the colored eyes? That would look evil!
 
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