A Ruby implementation of some of the tips and tools found in the book Flickr Hacks by Paul Bausch and Jim Bumgardner.
- Hack 44 - Find the Dominant Color of an Image
- Image::Mosaic
- Image::FlickrSet
- Hack 49 - Make a Photo Mosaic
I've been a big fan of Bumgardner (a.k.a krazydad) and his work (viewable here). After emailing him asking how I could create my own mosaics, he told me he used the scripts that could be found in his book. The (mostly Perl) examples are downloadable from O'Reilly here.
As I am getting my feet wet with Ruby, I decided to buy a copy of the book from an online used bookstore and port the hacks to a more modern language.