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

Mosaic 2002>>

The tile i created this year was an adaptation of something i had sketched before. I was given the honour of starting the process in one of the four corners so i had no tile with which to match. The tile itself is meant to represent a community focusing their efforts to produce a unified piece.

The tile was created entirely in Photoshop 6 with some help from the Knoll Lens Flare Plug-In. Each of the tiles were delivered as a 300dpi file to be matched to the subsequent tile.

[Download Quicktime Movie of the Tile Construction - 5.1mb]