Apollo Photo Mosaic
Once Apollo was released I decided to redo my Flash based photo mosaic. Having Apollo available finally gave me the impetuous to add in some of the features I had never gotten around to adding: using your own photos, user set search criteria, and saving the final mosaic. You can download the new Apollo version here. You will also need the Apollo runtime. Enjoy.
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Mar 26, 2007 at 3:15 PM
This looks cool!
Step 2, I get an error. I selected a .jpg named Photo 2.jpg
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at Application/::setImage()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at mx.core::UIComponent/dispatchEvent()
at com.dgrigg.mosaic.dialogs::FileOpenPanel/::fileSystemList_selectHandler()
at com.dgrigg.mosaic.dialogs::FileOpenPanel/__fileSystemList_select()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at mx.core::UIComponent/dispatchEvent()
at mx.controls.fileSystemClasses::FileSystemControlHelper/itemDoubleClickHandler()
at mx.controls::FileSystemList/mx.controls:FileSystemList::itemDoubleClickHandler()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at mx.core::UIComponent/dispatchEvent()
at mx.controls.listClasses::ListBase/mx.controls.listClasses:ListBase::mouseDoubleClickHandler()
Mar 27, 2007 at 4:57 AM
Thank you so much for providing this.
I am sure that it will be very helpful for many peoples.
Mar 27, 2007 at 9:28 AM
This is pretty darn cool - but it would be nice if the output could be saved as a swf too so that I could put a swf on my page and let users see the images making up the mosaic.
Apr 05, 2007 at 12:05 PM
I have updated the build to fix up the loading bug. Should work fine now for both PC and Macs.
Jun 11, 2007 at 9:35 PM
I’m a budding graphics designer. I love making my own icons especially when it comes to shopping and wedding sites. I love flash banners made from my own pictures but found out that most merchant sites reject sites with flash. So do you think I will have other uses for this?
Jun 27, 2007 at 11:49 PM
Hi,
Is there a plug-in you can download anywhere that allows you to save/export as an swf file? If not, are there any 3rd party converters? I haven't had any luck with either. Besides that though, this is really cool. Thanks for sharing. Does anyone have a thorough breakdown of the differences in the Apollo brand vs. the Air brand? I also use Audition fairly often and was wondering if there was a specific way to incorporate Audition into an Apollo session, rather than having to do the work in the two applications seperately and then import manually. Any help would be appreciated, and thanks in advance to anyone with an answer. Also, any news on when the next upgrade will be and new features to expect? Thanks again for sharing.
Jun 28, 2007 at 9:58 AM
I'm not sure if there is a plugin that allows exporting to a swf. I'm not exactly sure what you are wanting to export but swf is an open source format. I know people have created applications that can create swfs from something other than Flash and Flex. I have never seen any AS classes publicly available to allow people to easily do that though.
No news on an update anytime soon. If there are any specific features you would like to see let me know and I may work on it in some free time.
Jul 11, 2007 at 9:06 PM
Derrick,
Thanks so much for the reply. I googled for swf apps and came across a few cool ones after reading your comment. As for the specific features, I'm still kind of new to the program in general though, so I could actually still use a thorough tutorial or beginner's guide if you have a link to something like that lying around. I'v been playing around and learning things on my own, but I'm sure there is much left for me to absorb. Thanks as well for the info on the update (or lack thereof at this time). If and when you hear of the next release, I'd be thrilled if you could share it with the rest of us on the blog. Thanks again for the help. I appreciate it greatly. Take care!
Jul 14, 2007 at 10:09 AM
What an amazing application. You deserve some serious credit, not just for making it – which I’m sure required exhaustive hours of programming – but for coming up with the idea in the first place. It never would have occurred to me (despite the fact that I stare every day at a large photomosaic of Darth Vader that hangs above my desk), but once I read your explanation it seemed such an obvious idea and an obvious process. I suppose that’s the definition of most great ideas, though: they are so obvious we wonder how we did without them before. I already have plans for putting together some amazing Christmas gifts using this program, and it’s only July. Thanks for the post and the effort.
Jul 26, 2007 at 9:42 AM
Thanks so much! amazing great mosaics apps. I was using Photo Mosaic well.
It is pleasure that uses new Apollo Photo Mosaic.
Aug 09, 2007 at 4:39 AM
Thanks for very interesting Article
Aug 10, 2007 at 2:41 AM
Apollo Photo Mosaic will create a photo mosaic based on your photos and a Flickr search. Although this is very cool I still can’t understand why it is so exclusive to Flickr.
Aug 28, 2007 at 3:38 AM
Fantastic mosaic, thanks a lot for great and helpful article.
Aug 28, 2007 at 10:40 AM
Hi there,
just tried to ran your AIR app and got the following message from Adobe runtime:
This application could not be installed or launched (AIR file C:\download\adobe-apps\PhotoMosaic\PhotoMosaic.air is invalid: This application requires a version of the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) which is no longer supported. Please contact the application author for an updated version.).
Will you be updating?
Thanks, William
Aug 29, 2007 at 9:18 AM
Hey William,
A new build is up. Thanks for the heads up. I guess when Adobe released the latest version of AIR it broke all the apps built with the Alpha version.
Sep 04, 2007 at 9:19 AM
Looks very interesting.
Cool article.
Sep 10, 2007 at 1:46 PM
Thank you for the information
Sep 11, 2007 at 9:18 AM
This tool is very helpfull for novice users
thanks again
Alex
Sep 11, 2007 at 9:45 AM
This looks great, going to give it a try in a minute! Thanks :)
Does it work with opera?
Sorry if i sound a bit thick :/
Thanks,
Drew
Sep 11, 2007 at 12:39 PM
It's great
Sep 13, 2007 at 7:03 AM
looks very useful.
thanks for sharing.
Sep 13, 2007 at 7:15 AM
Hi - I like the look of it. How is the rendering and pixelation?
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Sep 13, 2007 at 3:03 PM
looks great!
thanks for information.
Sep 14, 2007 at 4:00 PM
great site! And good informations
Sep 15, 2007 at 4:50 AM
Looks awesome!
Sep 21, 2007 at 9:16 PM
Hi there! Nice PR on this page, please give me some popularity. Thanks!
Sep 23, 2007 at 5:47 PM
Hey, thanks, that's a pretty cool tool.
Sep 27, 2007 at 2:55 PM
Thank you very much, the mosaic looks great. Im gonna try that too now
Sep 27, 2007 at 11:03 PM
very good article, i like this.
Sep 28, 2007 at 3:33 AM
Derrick,
Thanks a lot for great and helpful article.
Will download it now.
Sep 29, 2007 at 1:32 PM
Looks good! Thanks for share this. Adam.
Sep 30, 2007 at 6:45 PM
Fantastic mosaic, thanks a lot for great and helpful article.
Oct 01, 2007 at 12:49 AM
thank you
Oct 01, 2007 at 1:41 AM
This great mosaic, thanks!