Photographic Mosaic

A Photographic Mosaic is a picture is form of a photograph that can be divided into rectangular sections of proportionate size and each of it is replaced by another photograph of appropriate average color. Such progression is also termed as Photomosaic that is portmanteau of photo and mosaic. The process is trademarked by Runaway Technology, Inc. In the field of photographic imaging, such an invention is tremendous and distinctive.

More precisely Photographic Mosaic involves the vision of an image (in a photograph) at a lower magnification, and the individual pixels appear to be the primary image and on close analysis reveals to be made up of many hundreds of smaller images. It can be shorted as a computer created type of montage.

The term photomosaic can also be referred as the compound photographs created by stitching a series of adjacent pictures of a scene. Such process is common among space scientists of Soviet Union in the late 1950s and was quite constructive while their space satellite missions to the moon.

Photographic Mosaic can be found in two forms:

Video mosaic

Impressionist mosaic

Originally, the trademark of Photographic Mosaic was filed by Robert Silvers, a Graduate student of MIT on September 3, 1996 that eventually got registered on August 12 2003. Much later on January 2, 1997, Silvers, an U.S. based company also applied for the patent on the production of Photomosaics.