There have been some great innovations that have come out of Google employees’ “20%” time. You know, the mandate from Google that they spend 20% of their time solving problems, building new features, or just changing the world for the better.
This isn’t one of them:
OK, so it probably didn’t come out of anyone’s 20% time, but I’m not sure why this was worthy of a Googler’s precious time. After all, it seems like a complex process:
Part of the appeal of this project was that it was complicated. First, in order to have enough “tiles” to make the underlying image clear, I knew we’d need a really, really large wall. Second, for you to be able to appreciate both the underlying image and the individual tiles, you’d have to be able to see the mosaic from a large distance (so the tiles blend to create the larger image), and also be able to walk right up to it to look at individual photographs. So the wall would have to be at the end of a long hallway. Third, if you can inspect individual images, then those images would have….
WAKE UP! Sorry, I think we both fell asleep reading that. 
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Frank Reed Says:
May 13th, 2010 at 10:15 am
See what happens when rich kids have too much free time
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Maxeg Says:
May 13th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
wow! great mosaic! Guinness Book possibly
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searchengineman Says:
May 17th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
There is an old piece of software available for the PC which turns your ordinary photo’s into the Google Mosaic–Same software that created the movie poster for “The Truman Show” movie. You do need a lot of processing power..which I think Google has lots of. The only time wasted was physically putting the photo’s up, instead of getting one large format print job.
nuff said.
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Ron @ Free iPad Says:
May 17th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Nice article and clip, although a bit strange