Here's a little tip for you to play with if it gets rainy in the next few weekends, and you're stuck inside.
The Rasterbator is an infamous website which allows you to blow your own picture up to 20 meters in size. The quality of the images is up to you and will depend on your paper and printer...
How does it work?
The folks there transform your pic into many, one page PDF files and send them back to you. You then print out the images and piece them together. This is how they put it:
The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size.
Simple, right? Think of all the things you could do with this. Outside of the rather limited selection of image that they have on file, think about AT'ers doing faux headboards, curtains, any type of decorative motif, like columns, or working with color to piece together a really beautiful pic of a forest scene or landscape. We'd love to host a rasterbator contest for interiors...
>> Our Original Rasterbator Post with 42 Comments
>> To get started just head over to http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
(ReEdited from 2008-06-04 - MGR)
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Finally AT does a piece on this wonderful site!!! They turn out much more classy and "adult" than you'd think!
very nice!
Its not the first time alady. Thanks to AT I've used the site for over a year now.
Infamous, why? Also why does "The Rasterbator" link back to this page?
If only the folks behind Rasterbator had a functional Mac version.
This is also incredibly easy to do in Photoshop for those that have access to it. It's called "Color Halftone". The trick is to convert it to grayscale and resize it first, but it works like a charm.
I prefer <A HREF="http://www.ronyasoft.com/products/proposter/">ProPoster</A> as it doesn't halftone the image. It's more complicated than rasterbator, but gives much more control.
I used Rasterbator (hate the name) for my Cinco de Mayo/Kentucky Derby Party a month ago. These worked great to add some tacky but fun decorations to our party. I also made a huge picture of a horse and put it up behind the bathroom door which was a fun surprise for my guests. This was a very classy party if you didn't get that.
http://picasaweb.google.com/jessicagulish/TresDeMayoFestival/photo#5199764183692676562
http://picasaweb.google.com/jessicagulish/TresDeMayoFestival/photo#5199764252412153330
check out the jockey in the background
http://picasaweb.google.com/jessicagulish/TresDeMayoFestival/photo#5199764381261172274
Happy rasterbating.
mgn...I was also wondering what they've done to become "infamous"!
i did this in my dorm room, i took a picture of the boston skyline at night, and then blew it up, and tiled it (220 pages) around two walls of my room to create a headboard!
Question for those whove used it: Do you just tape papers directly to the wall or do you have any unsual fun methods (ie framing each one, pasting them onto canvas first...)?
Rasterbator is infamous in the street art world, at least! Its the budget way to print out posters or other images for wheat-pasting and what not.
Yes kitteh, you can has cheezburger.
Hmm, I've been using this site for years. And FYI, homokaasu (the url name), is Finnish for Gay Gas.
The more you know... :P
Infamous perhaps simply for the name.
Rasterbator = having fun with your own poster (?)
lol
kiitos pikku.sukka!
as if rasterbator could get any more awkward :S
Great link. I hadn't heard of this application before.
I'm going to be Rasterbating all day long.
I use a Mac, and I'll able to use the online version without any problems.
Can't wait to see what others come up with.