The Rasterbator

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:02 am

have you come across this before?

it takes an image (has to be below 1mb) and rasturbates it like a billboard poster and enables you to print it out on A3 and A4 pieces of paper which you can then stick together to make a massive image.

I just rasturbated one of the P38 from the WWII images thread:

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/getfil ... 7177091c2b

(it will be deleted after 3 hours)

edit: you'll be needing the link http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

Post by **Foo** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:04 am

What a coincedence. I also just rasturbated.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:05 am

small world

Post by **Foo** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:07 am

I'm pleased with the results.

Post by **Bdw3** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:13 am

btw, your link redirects to their main page

Post by **Foo** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:14 am

BTW aside from the hilarously awesome name, the program is great. I'm gonna print some posters up at uni on Monday with this. Thanks!

I've downloaded the standalone version and am right now furiously rasturbating!

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:21 am

won't you need like a super high res file for that to work nicely, or are there algorithms that can expand an image without quality loss?

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:22 am

Bdw3 wrote:

btw, your link redirects to their main page

oops, i forgot to link to the actual site, but if my link does anyway, not to worry

The results weren't actually that pleasing, there wasn;t enough going on in the image, I've done one of the screencap my icon was taken from and it's great.

Post by **Foo** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:23 am

[xeno]Julios wrote:won't you need like a super high res file for that to work nicely, or are there algorithms that can expand an image without quality loss?

Try the program.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:27 am

I don't have a printer so i wouldn't be able to see the results. But I'm curious - does it employ any smoothing algorithm or some such thing to prevent pixelated blockiness?

Post by **Foo** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:27 am

the program outputs to PDF.

Try the program.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:31 am

[xeno]Julios wrote:I don't have a printer so i wouldn't be able to see the results. But I'm curious - does it employ any smoothing algorithm or some such thing to prevent pixelated blockiness?

smoothing algorithms,

try the program

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:31 am

Foo wrote:the program outputs to PDF.

Try the program.

won't run - mscoree.dll missing.

i dloaded the dll, now it's giving me a .net framework initialization error.

mebe win98 can't handle it.

anyway, do you have an answer for my question?

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:32 am

all you should need is Adobe Acrobat Reader?

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:33 am

phantasmagoria wrote:all you should need is Adobe Acrobat Reader?

hm - i downloaded the standalone program and tried running rasterbator.exe

i'm guessing there's an online interface - will check now

Post by **losCHUNK** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:34 am

[xeno]Julios wrote:
Foo wrote:the program outputs to PDF.

Try the program.
won't run - mscoree.dll missing.

i dloaded the dll, now it's giving me a .net framework initialization error.

mebe win98 can't handle it.

anyway, do you have an answer for my question?

wait, wait, wait just a cotton picking minute

win 98?!?!?!??!?!

lollerollrksingpark with an ample douse of whatthecuntingfuck?

Post by **Bdw3** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:35 am

It turns the image in to a giant ass pointilissm.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:36 am

[xeno]Julios wrote:
phantasmagoria wrote:all you should need is Adobe Acrobat Reader?
hm - i downloaded the standalone program and tried running rasterbator.exe

i'm guessing there's an online interface - will check now

Where did you get the stand alone exe? I was a little dissapointed they didnt have one.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:37 am

phantasmagoria wrote:
[xeno]Julios wrote:
phantasmagoria wrote:all you should need is Adobe Acrobat Reader?
hm - i downloaded the standalone program and tried running rasterbator.exe

i'm guessing there's an online interface - will check now
Where did you get the stand alone exe? I was a little dissapointed they didnt have one.