Let's rasterbate!

[BobTheCow]

Do it... http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

This has been around for quite a while, but I don't think it's ever been posted on AO. It's this web site that takes any image you want, and blows it up all huge. Then you print it out and you have a big awesome poster.

It's a pretty good site, you can crop however you want and decide exactly how big you want, plus it's simple and friendly and stuff too.

http://img415.imageshack.us/img415/6442/wallwalkenresized6aa.jpg

My 36 pages of Christopher Walken are terrifyingly awesome.

Make some rasterbations of your own, let's see 'em!

[fcpchop]

Awesome. Now to find a picture worthy of being blown up.

[xmetal2001]

Hey now, Thats Christopher Walken dancing, Watch what your calling unworthy. :cool:

[FromTheBack]

College dorms <3 cool things like this...as I see you have alredy taken advantage of....Unfortunately mine is filled alredy :D ...gotta love free banners from highland games.
http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/5996/sapc0061jb.th.jpg (http://img463.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sapc0061jb.jpg)

[Eric Cartman]

That Christopher Walken one is amazing! Well done.

[Skoad]

I've done that before, but just used microsoft publisher.

I've done a couple paintball posters, if you get really good and have patience you can cut them out and line it up right and make it almost seamless. Just use the color laser printers on campus :)

[Thordic]

Eh I just tried it out and I wasn't impressed. The dots are too big and you really have to stand far away or it looks like mush.

EDIT: Nevermind, if you download the program, you can do the image using much smaller dots, and much better image quality.

[rkjunior303]

Yeah, download the stand-alone and you can push the dots down to 1mm...
I'm printing this in color, with 1mm dots.. 10 pages landscape across for my wall in my room.. it's like 65 sheets!

http://gankish.net/~rkjunior/downtownfromwater.jpg

[Glickman]

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/133/car4xf.jpg


now all i need is 60 sheets of paper... :D

[Warewolf50]

College dorms <3 cool things like this...as I see you have alredy taken advantage of....Unfortunately mine is filled alredy :D ...gotta love free banners from highland games.
http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/5996/sapc0061jb.th.jpg (http://img463.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sapc0061jb.jpg)



my friend here has that same pink floyd poster.

[SCpoloRicker]

now all i need is 60 sheets of paper... :D

*golfclap*

[Kai]

"Let's rasterbate!"


Oh I see what you did there!

[Thordic]

I'm using it to decorate the office (I do marketing for architects).

http://www.thordic.com/images/LFPO.jpg

[tae]

I thought you could do that with print options in all sorts of programs?

Very neat though.

[Thordic]

The thing with this program is you don't need a high res image to make a large format print.

That poster I made is a 200kb jpeg. You couldn't just blow up a photograph like that normally and print it, it would look horrible. The way this program works allows you to print out small files in large format without it looks like crap.

[thecavemankevin]

from college humor
http://content.collegehumor.com/items/2005/10/collegehumor.1613180.451xAUTO.jpg

you may have to look closely at the guy standing up...notice his left arm has a door handle in it

[wad04]

i've wasted a good 100 pages thanks to this thread.

thanks a lot.

[Warewolf50]

from college humor
http://content.collegehumor.com/items/2005/10/collegehumor.1613180.451xAUTO.jpg

you may have to look closely at the guy standing up...notice his left arm has a door handle in it


I really wanna try and do that to my door but i think it would be crazy hard, and i dont have acess to any color printers here, that i know of. IU only lets students use the black and white without being charged extra i think.

[ojhspyro89]

I think i might run out of black ink with the Dark Side picture... there is TONS of black.... im deciding wether to do it or not, cause 60 pages takes one LONG time to print

[Rather]

Hmm... i think im good with decorations.... I gots these when the field i worked at went under... :D


On way into room (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v730/rather34/sold042.jpg)
This one is hanging over my bed. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v730/rather34/sold041.jpg)
Will go on one wall (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v730/rather34/sold043.jpg)
And one for the other wall (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v730/rather34/sold044.jpg)

Although I might clear off one wall so i can rasterbate it. Very good find indeed. :)

[PyRo]

The computer lab guy is going to hate me tommorrow. Yay for free printing :)

[Hairball]

I made a big one of a Kleemann E55 doing a huge burnout a few months ago. It's sweet.

[behemoth]

i just killed the printer >_<

[BobTheCow]

Talk is cheap. We need PICTORAL EVIDENCE, goddamnit!!

(thanks thordic sweety)

[JesseB]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/penniesplusvelocity/DSC00131.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/penniesplusvelocity/DSC00130.jpg

[Indignant]

Threadless rules, but a sloppy execution. You need to work on straightening those out.

[BobTheCow]

I don't know what that picture's of, but I agree. Don't be afraid to spend some time putting up the pages. I spent a good hour or two of just taping and sticking, and I'm still not totally happy with some of the corners.

It's worth it in the long run to make it look perfect!

e: And I left the margins on the pages on purpose. I really liked the effect of the slight spacing between pages, plus it made it easier to make sure everything was lined up just right, because I knew I wasn't screwing up any dimensions with my trimming.

[Indignant]

http://threadless.com/product/73/Outbreak_Girl

[ojhspyro89]

Ok here ya go....

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y212/ohspyro89/ebay186.jpg

I started to run out of ink at the bottom as you can tell, but all in all i like it. Mine are kind of off, but im not perfect.

[tool]

Bob you did a pretty good job sticking that on your wall... what did you use? just plain tape? and how big did you put you're dots?

[BobTheCow]

Bob you did a pretty good job sticking that on your wall... what did you use? just plain tape? and how big did you put you're dots?
I just put little loops of scotch tape on the back of each page, then stuck the page on the wall. The dot size was the default, whatever that is, I don't remember. But on the next one I do, I'll make the DPI greater (smaller dot size). Like Thor said, it looks kind of junky up close, but from the other end of the room, I love it.

[Troen]

College dorms <3 cool things like this...as I see you have alredy taken advantage of....Unfortunately mine is filled alredy :D ...gotta love free banners from highland games.
http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/5996/sapc0061jb.th.jpg (http://img463.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sapc0061jb.jpg)
i have same floyd poster, good pic

[Troen]

Ok here ya go....

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y212/ohspyro89/ebay186.jpg

I started to run out of ink at the bottom as you can tell, but all in all i like it. Mine are kind of off, but im not perfect.
awesome. now i have to come up with a new idea. maybe the dorthy darkside

[JesseB]

Yeah I agree that is my old rasterbation... it is sadly gone now and I have this one going up as soon as I can hustle an ink cartridge or a printer from somewhere

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/penniesplusvelocity/Fear_and_loathing.jpg

oh and another image that I did for a friend I don't have pics of the actual Rasterbations cause it was about a year ago but he used this one

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/penniesplusvelocity/zoom.gif

[Deltree]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/iamphil/IMG_2913.jpg

[CoFFeY[NiTrO]]

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c395/jcoffey09/poster.jpg


i love how mine turned out, except i have a horrible camera.