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EchoCanyon · September 17, 2009 2:40AM

Babe Ruth Mosaic

Beck6 · September 17, 2009 2:48AM

That is amazing. How do you even think to do something like that?

Nathaniel1960 · September 17, 2009 3:06AM

There is a similar mosaic hanging at the ESPN Zone in Manhattan with vintage cards....it was fun to scan. All Yankees if I remember, including a 65 Mick.

slantycouch · September 17, 2009 3:17AM

I'm not going to lie, that's pretty damn cool.

Edit: holy hell - $4699!

TomTim · September 17, 2009 3:37AM

There are computer programs that will take a collection of images (like the micro cards) and recreate a target image (like the Babe picture). It looks cool, but I don't think he just eyeballed it. I thought about creating posters like this, but there were too many trademark issues. I'm guessing that one of the reasons these things cost so much is because he's working with CMG. My office is decorated with 8x10 size pictures of a 33 Goudey Ruth created from other 33 Goudeys, a T206 Wagner created from T206s, and a 52 Mantle created from other 52 Topps. I created all of these with free pictures I found on the web and a free computer program. He took it one step further and used actual cards.

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slantycouch · September 17, 2009 3:49AM

<< <i>There are computer programs that will take a collection of images (like the micro cards) and recreate a target image (like the Babe picture). It looks cool, but I don't think he just eyeballed it. I thought about creating posters like this, but there were too many trademark issues. I'm guessing that one of the reasons these things cost so much is because he's working with CMG. My office is decorated with 8x10 size pictures of a 33 Goudey Ruth created from other 33 Goudeys, a T206 Wagner created from T206s, and a 52 Mantle created from other 52 Topps. I created all of these with free pictures I found on the web and a free computer program. He took it one step further and used actual cards.

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You're absolutely right. There are a bunch of free programs that will do that, and you can even specify the directory of images from which it will create it, and also limit the number of duplicates, etc. It would take a long time and lots of effort, but wouldn't be that hard to recreate this.

Edited for grammar.

alifaxwa2 · September 17, 2009 4:06AM

<< <i>There are computer programs that will take a collection of images (like the micro cards) and recreate a target image (like the Babe picture). It looks cool, but I don't think he just eyeballed it. I thought about creating posters like this, but there were too many trademark issues. I'm guessing that one of the reasons these things cost so much is because he's working with CMG. My office is decorated with 8x10 size pictures of a 33 Goudey Ruth created from other 33 Goudeys, a T206 Wagner created from T206s, and a 52 Mantle created from other 52 Topps. I created all of these with free pictures I found on the web and a free computer program. He took it one step further and used actual cards.

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any suggestions of software that can do it with images I provide?

slantycouch · September 17, 2009 4:18AM

It's not the most powerful, but it's one of the easiest: http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/

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