mwichary OP , vor 4 Monaten

Of course got wind in my sails right after I complained!

I want a canvas print of all the photos that people sent me of my book.

I thought I’d try something new (LaTeX) although of course I already made a strange concoction where most of the .tex file is generated by node.js.

mwichary OP , vor 3 Monaten

Starting to feel good about this! Had to figure out pixel orientation in photos (portrait photos in cameras are still laid out horizontally, with just a flag to rotate them in software), and also programmatically lay it out tens of thousands of times to find the most optimal configuration.

This is a screenshot of a 680MB PDF where each image is in the original resolution.

385 great photos! Will wait a few more weeks.

mwichary OP , vor 3 Monaten

396 photos! I think I will order the print when I get to 400. It might also help narrow the spaces in a few rows.

(I changed the aspect ratio from square to portrait because I think it feels a bit more refined.)

mwichary OP , vor 3 Monaten

Oh, I forgot I could grab two pics from @zhenpixels’s beautifully photographed essay of the book’s preview, published back over a year ago! I think this was the first time someone who wasn’t me took deliberate photos of the book in any way.

This preview post is still so great: https://arun.is/blog/shift-happens-preview/

So, 398!

mwichary OP , vor 2 Monaten

411 photos locked in, and the canvas file has been submitted to the printer! I’ll post the final result here.

Loved seeing my little machine wargame for an hour trying to find the ideal layout with the smallest amount of extra gaps/rivers.

mwichary OP , vor einem Monat

On my wall now! I feel very proud of this.

TechConnectify , vor einem Monat

@mwichary This is wonderful!