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Old 02-06-2006, 12:27 PM
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Default Blow Up Huge Pics of Your Ride For Free!!!

This may be old news, but with a little work you can cover a wall with a pic of your ride (or anything else). The best thing is that its free!! Don't forget to share your efforts with us.

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
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Ya... I had a few of these up. Kinda fun actually. Printed them on the nice color laser printer at work...



This was in my living room at my apartment.
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thats pretty cool,

if i had 81 peices of paper and an unlimited amount of ink i would do it.

maybe when i go home ill do it on the family computer lol
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yea that is pretty cool...i might do one of jessica alba or sumptin lol
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Ya... just know when you print these, they do take up a lot of ink. So do it on someone else's printer...
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Ohhh and I have a great wall to work with!!! 8'x24'

I work with 3D animation, so I can make a really REALLY high res.......something.. Don't know what I want to do yet but to wrap around the corners of my apt would be really cool.
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thanks for the link. time to waste some ink
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This is awesome. I am having it do my tC right now. Can't wait to see how it turns out.
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Sweet man! Good find.
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Originally Posted by Fujiz_xb
thanks for the link. time to waste some ink
I find it best to do a very small one (4 sheets?) first as a test. A straight edge, exato knife, masking tape and some rubber cement and you're in business! Remember, because of the dots, the further away from it the better it looks. And yes, it sucks up ink like crazy so have an adequate supply....preffably someone else's!! Have fun!!
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somewhere on google theres a program called PictureClip its free and it works much better. Instead of dots it chops the picture into peices with no dots. An 800x624 image is filling my wall with almost no burring up close


Good riddinance rasterbator
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I kind of like the dots though... it adds a bit of style.
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wow thats pretty slick. i'm doing a pic of my ride for ishts and giggles. good thing my gf got new ink cartridges for her printer, lol
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Heh... we just relcaimed a color printer from somewhere at work... guess I'll have to "test" it a couple times.
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Very cool indeed. I like the dots as well. It gives it that arts-y feel to it. You can also reduce the size of the dots to 1cm on the stand alone version that you download so the dots aren't as apparent. here is what I did:

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Here is a pic I did of my tC. The picture is made up of 48 pieces of paper. My hand still hurts though from all of the cutting to get rid of the borders.



Edit: Replaced pic of it laid out on the floor with a pic of it hanging on my wall.
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thats so awesome, i wish i could afford to use the paper/ink.
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Originally Posted by davedavetC
thats so awesome, i wish i could afford to use the paper/ink.
Haha, that is the good thing about having a fast laser printer at work.
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we did this to my boss' face in work.....

made a 3 x 3 printout and hung it in his office,
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lol but i would have to go colored paper too and thats a lot of ink...
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