Mar 12 2008Star Wars Last Supper Painting Is Made From Like Trillions of Captures From The Movies
This 262-megapixel (24,168 x 10,864) mosaic is made out of 69,550 screen captures from the Star Wars series. The piece was made by Avinash Arora using some mosaic software and a tweaked algorithm. As you can see it's stunning. It was printed out at 3'x6' because the printer Avinash went to was unable to open the 712-megapixel version (3GB compressed, 40GB uncompressed) he wanted to use to make a 5' x 11' print. Over two weeks in the making, Avanish spent 30+ hours adding finishing touches in the end. Congratulations, it looks great. You could probably sell these to Star Wars fanatics for a good chunk of change. It's certainly better than my Last Supper was. Which, incidentally, didn't agree with me and came back up in the middle of the night.
A ton more pictures, including some closeups, after the jump.
Skywalker Last Supper Painting Made With 69,550 Star Wars Frames [gizmodo]
Reader Comments
1. SlowMonkey - March 12, 2008 1:55 PM
It is not often that the sequel is better than the original but this is a shining example of just that. Give me a signed copy and Jabba no boddah.
2. cc - March 12, 2008 1:55 PM
bad ass
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3. denacem - March 12, 2008 2:26 PM
that's actually not even hard to do. just use a mosaic tool like andreamosaic..
4. Skeps - March 12, 2008 4:27 PM
I believe this may be a level of geek that was previously unknown to mankind. Congratulations on setting the bar.
5. guate6 - March 12, 2008 5:02 PM
Oh neat. I didn't know mosaics like this even required software...I always thought it was highly talented people...oh well, now I know...in that case, I can probably even make my own set of mosaics now with software!
It is neat though.
6. Rob - March 12, 2008 5:50 PM
I wonder what they're eating.
Space food?
Am I reading too much into this?
7. saint - March 12, 2008 9:55 PM
Technically, Vader should be the christ-like figure portrayed here.
8. dandan - March 13, 2008 12:23 PM
I want one soooooooo much. Much better then the original.
9. Andrea - March 16, 2008 9:30 PM
Is this impressive? They used to have posters made of little images like this for sale at Spencer's Gifts.
10. e.m. - March 31, 2008 4:12 AM
I think the sheer number of pictures used in this makes it impressive. forty gigabytes of photos in one image? I don't even have that many total, much less forming another image.
And, to read entirely to far into this (I took a religious studies class on mythological constructs) I don't think Vader would be the Christ figure. He didn't suffer for anyone else's sins, just his own. So, according to Catholic dogma, he would be humanity, and Luke came, and suffered to redeem him. But Lucas was just using Joseph Campbell's theories and the archetype's he proposed that extend far beyond the narrow scope of Christianity which is why it does not fit exactly.
Wow, I really, really spent too much effort on that.
11. Valerie - May 7, 2008 8:18 AM
I AM SUCH A STARS WARS FAN AND THIS IS AWESOME!!! I SOOOOO WANT ONE!
12. Valerie - May 7, 2008 8:19 AM
I AM SUCH A STARS WARS FAN AND THIS IS AWESOME!!! I SOOOOO WANT ONE!