Hi! I'm Nicolas and I'm interested in information visualization, JavaScript and web standards.
I currently work as a Data Visualization Scientist at Twitter. I wrote PhiloGL, the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit and V8-GL.
Browser Photo Mosaics
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*Update: I made a video showing the Photo Mosaic process + zoomable Canvas here:*
Today, I started working at Exalead on a photo mosaic service that could take advantage of Exalead's Search Engine. The service contains a bunch of indexed images from different sources. These images are categorized by color just like the images in our public search service, allowing us to easily find pictures by approximating colors.
I decided to run the web application into some browser logos to see what the results were. You can click the images to enlarge.
Chrome
IE
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Safari was kind of complicated because the logo has more details than the others. I also made a close up of the logo:
Which one do you like the most?