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Re:Make photomosaics, GIFs, and murals from pictures in Pyth... by muzakthings on Thursday December 13, 2018 @05:40PM (#18676806)
Both! You can experiment with —-best-k and —randomness <1.0 and sort of get things in the middle.

Basically what this will do is assign each tile less than 100% of the time randomly and then for each that isn’t, you choose among the top best K matches on L2 distance with equal probability. Gives it a little bit of both.

Re:Make photomosaics, GIFs, and murals from pictures in Pyth... by fireattack on Thursday December 13, 2018 @06:04PM (#18676965)
I'm talking about `--opacity` - because to me the mosaic images used in the sky can't be that blue originally.
Re:Make photomosaics, GIFs, and murals from pictures in Pyth... by muzakthings on Thursday December 13, 2018 @06:22PM (#18677073)
Right. The opacity setting is superimposed after the tile assignment. Thus you can have both.

I’ve found that opacity if 0.7 is often a nice compromise.