Simulated Decorative Mosaics

Tile mosaics survive from Greek and Roman times. This paper describes a way to carry this ancient technique to the ephemeral world of computer graphics.

Here are some sample pictures that use the technique. Click on a picture to see the mosaic.

For details, see:

A Powerpoint slide show.

or the full paper, in Siggraph 2001.

Interested in making mosaic tile pictures yourself? Here's the software used to generate images in the paper.

Alejo Hausner, Department of Computer Science, University of New Hampshire

Last modified: Fri Oct 18 14:05:15 EDT 2002