What's the Mosaic?
The mosaic was a project started by members of the forums at maccentral.com in 2002. From a simple suggestion of a community project, the idea snowballed taking in members from around the globe, exhibitions in computer conventions and an eventual charity auction for the United Cerebal Palsy Association of America. The image on the left is the most recent mosaic project.

What's with the runny edges?
The concept for the mosaic was very simple. Each person would receive a small border of the proceeding person's work with which they would try to blend their tile. Some people chose to continue the colour scheme, some to continue a particular patterns, anything which suggested itself at the time. No one except the tile assembler knew what the mosaic looked like until the final tile was in place

Can I see the previous efforts?
Mosaic 2003 and Mosaic 2002

The tile i created this year was a purely abstract piece in which I used the strip of my neighbours tile as inspiration. Signifying nothing apart from the fact that a Dublin tower, a girls' hair, some whales and a crab shaped galaxy can all work together given enough time.

The tile was constructed entirely in Photoshop 7 with a helping hand from Google™ image search.

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