Welcome to the Photobrix project

I would like to welcome you in the Photobrix (Photobricks) project's home page. The main goal of this project is creation the open source application that produces fancy images from existing tile photographies.

The history of the project is not so long, but idea of the "bricked" or mosaic images creator took up residence in my head when I first saw woman portrait made up of hundreds of other tile photos several years ago. I thought it is a handmade photo, and someone spent long hours to construct it with image editor, but from the other hand it sounds killing to compile so difficult pazzle. Probably first photo mosaics were made by humans, but in this computer age people tend to use machines for solving such tasks. "Why not to write such computer program myself?": I thought.

Of course, this is not the only project dedicated to photo mosaics creation - I found many similar ones. Some of them are good and popular, others are not, but this fact does not stop me for making something better and cooler.

Why it is open source? The answer is obvious: I am not going to make money on this toy application; I want to make it public and everyone can see how it works; I want to extend open source society with my participation; I love Qt and it is open source too.

You may wonder of how it works? Ok, you can look at the code and/or read the project documentation. Of course, all feedbacks will be appreciated and your participation is welcomed.

This web site and project itself are in development phase now. Please refer to the news section of this site to know what's hot in Photobrix. I appreciate your patience.