Animated Mosaics

To me, the mosaic is a metaphor for how a lifetime occurs. Many small pictures are stored as memories and create content for the "bigger picture". 
The process of creating a mosaic starts with creating a library of many smaller images. The tiles used in this mosaic are from family photo albums.  Ideally one would have a selection of several thousand of these small images. In this project, I had less about 1000 images for my library. A program was used that creates a grid over the larger "source" photo, creating an array of cells. The program then chooses an image from the library of small images that best represents the content of each cell, and arranges the smaller images into the mosaic. A library containing a large number of the small images allows for a better match of an image for each cell, leading to a better interpretation of the source image with less repeated content.