# Photos composed of other photos

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-composed-of-other-photos/90618>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 30, 2001, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-composed-of-other-photos/90618 "2001-10-30T22:42:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Malice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@Malice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malice)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-composed-of-other-photos/90618/1 "2001-10-30T22:42:30Z")

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Back in the 70s you could get a poster or shirt whose pixels were ASCII symbols instead of dots.

Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of photos made up (wholly or in part) of collections of other photos as in:

[http://us.imdb.com/ImageView?u=http%3A//posters.imdb.com/Covers/24/56/74.jpg](http://us.imdb.com/ImageView?u=http%3A//posters.imdb.com/Covers/24/56/74.jpg)

I’m just curious if there is any shareware available (Mac or PC) that does this kind of effect, and if so, where?

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**Author:** ![Kevin\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kevin\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevin_H)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-composed-of-other-photos/90618/2 "2001-10-30T23:20:21Z")

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That’s called a mosaic. I don’t know of a program that does this, though…

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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-composed-of-other-photos/90618/3 "2001-10-30T23:32:34Z")

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ArcSoft’s PhotoImpression 2000 can do it.