Introduction
Commuter is a command line tool that creates photo mosaics from an image, i.e. a mosaic where every tile of the image is itself a smaller picture.
There are now two versions of Commuter. Commuter 1 is the original version as featured in NTK and works on Windows or UNIX-like platforms. Commuter 2 offers some improvements, particularly in the way Commuter interacts with ImageMagick but only runs on UNIX-like platforms.
Example output
I took a picture of myself (from a quite a while ago now) and resized it to 90x72. I then created a mosaic using my photo collection as the library (tile size of 50x50 pixels), resulting in picture of 4500x3600 pixels. The shrunk down version shows what the picture looks like 'from a distance', and the close-up shows some tiles.
