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Was the last one to move in this semester, so I was left with a room with 7 windows (no blinds installed). It's been rough, and has taken a toll on privacy. But I put blankets everywhere so it's all good now.
Anyways, I luckily still had some wall space to rasterbate on:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/fukz9.jpg)
I wanted one that took up the whole board but meh, it will do for now.
If you don't know, rasterbation means blowing up an image into dots (so it looks clear when standing farther away, but really it's just pixelated with dots up close). There's a program called The Rasterbator, free download, that takes any image you give it and does this for you. You then print it off sheet by sheet, and can either do the cool grid style as seen above, or put them flush with each other so it looks like a normal poster.
This was the one in my old apartment I blogged last year:
![[image loading]](http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs297.snc4/41197_1604606719186_1356677852_31669941_7068967_n.jpg)
It's a cheap way to decorate your place, I'm sure many already know about it. But here's some tips if you want to try it yourself:
- I've done all mine through regular laser printing (it's free at my university, lol). You can do it on whatever quality paper you want, but it doesn't look half bad using typical printer paper. There are much cooler ones than mine out there, but I'm lazy.
- Black and white looks good, and is a cheaper option. Also raising the contrast on your image before blowing it up helps make it stand out more.
- Choose simple pictures such as a person, face, logo, car, whatever. I don't think it looks as good with detailed pics like intricate paintings or city sky lines. And the higher resolution the better, of course.
- Cut the margins as straight as possible. Take your time taping/tacking it to the wall so everything lines up well.
- If you're putting it up in a small room like a bedroom, 3-4mm size dots are probably best. Bigger dots should be used for big pics in big rooms IMO.
It's quite addicting, but it's a lot of ink so may be less affordable if you print from home.
program link: http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
Hope this was useful to some people, I'll update this again when I figure out what to put for my last available wall space.
 
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I came in this thread expecting something else.
I was not disappointed.
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thats miss a's min in the first pic right?
j/w'ing
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On August 29 2011 12:10 sung_moon wrote:
thats miss a's min in the first pic right?
j/w'ing
that was my first thought too.
thanks for sharing. somehow I wasn't really aware of how people did this
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On August 29 2011 12:08 XXGeneration wrote:
I came in this thread
My thoughts exactly.
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Yeah that's Min.
I couldn't tell you the name of the other girl though =[
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Other girls name is Lee Ji Woo (korean race queen) . . . >.>
edit: oh and thanks for this . . . I am currently rastorbating my room
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I thought Rasterbating was when you play Rasta music and.. well... you know.
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I got trolled DX
not convinced, show pics close up of dots please.
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On August 29 2011 12:18 Turkitage wrote:My thoughts exactly.
Hahahahahaahaha. You, sir, win. Gonna try out this ma- i mean rasterbation thing tomoro in my room and see if its cool. Any suggestions for good starcraft pictures?
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Interesting, are you able to take a close up pic and show us the dots?
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the Dagon Knight4003 Posts
I very seldom feel that something deserves 5/5 on the strength of the opening pun alone, but you're elevating an artform, sir.
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you raise the contrast b4 turn picture to black and white or after?
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In uni I had this on our big wall. Opposite side was the Japanese naval flag.
I totally forgot about rasturbation and it'd be an awesome thing to put up now. Thanks for the reminder!
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Lalalaland34491 Posts
Totally doing this when I move to my new place in a week
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could you please explain a little more in detail how you put them on the wall?
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You decide the size of the poster and the size of the dots in the program, it then gives you a PDF file of all the sheets. Print this file out, and then cut the the white margins off each sheet.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/mAUU5.jpg)
I personally like double sided scotch tape so it's not visible (4 small strips per sheet). Other than that, you just have to eyeball it as you put each one up. Making sure the gap spaces are all the same is the hardest part.
On August 29 2011 21:10 NB wrote:
you raise the contrast b4 turn picture to black and white or after?
It probably doesn't matter, but I raised contrast after removing the color.
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On August 29 2011 14:17 Bippzy wrote:Show nested quote +On August 29 2011 12:18 Turkitage wrote:On August 29 2011 12:08 XXGeneration wrote:
I came in this thread My thoughts exactly. Hahahahahaahaha. You, sir, win. Gonna try out this ma- i mean rasterbation thing tomoro in my room and see if its cool. Any suggestions for good starcraft pictures?
This one perhaps?
Will try this out tomorrow, thanks for the link!
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Thanks a ton for this. I'm excited to give it a try.
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CA10828 Posts
wow this is a cool idea. i gotta try it out.
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51448 Posts
i should try this too, but i have a shitty ass printer lol
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51448 Posts
well... this is what i get for not having double-sided tape and a shitty printer.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/U8fJ7.jpg)
i feel like crying for wasting 30 minutes of my time
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You know if you roll tape into a loop it becomes double sided right?
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i think if you lined them up better it'd look great. though i see you kept the margins? i'd cut those out and make the gaps slightly wider. the blue wall will look awesome behind it =D
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51448 Posts
yeh i'll do it again when i can find someone with good laser printing. ill go buy good quality tape as well.
this was just a test run. wasted most of my black ink on my printer =[
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On August 30 2011 14:12 GTR wrote:
yeh i'll do it again when i can find someone with good laser printing. ill go buy good quality tape as well.
this was just a test run. wasted most of my black ink on my printer =[
It looks pretty good to me!
Maybe when I have my own place I'll decorate the walls with it. For now, at least, I'll have to put up with my drab walls D:
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51448 Posts
decided to fix it up by removing margins/any tape that didn't tear the paper.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/mLUh5.jpg)
blame camera flash for the still-visible tape... it's not as apparent in person!
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I think i like it better when you leave some space inbetween the peices of paper.
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how big is that gtr?
is it one A4 or like two A4 size
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On August 31 2011 04:38 deathly rat wrote:
I think i like it better when you leave some space inbetween the peices of paper.
I think so too, I want to give this a try but I definately don't want to use regular paper, and I want the pieces bigger than a regular sheet of paper.
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Oh my god I thought that was a typo in the title
Phew! Would NOT want to have another one of those threads.
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Thats pretty cool, modern art haha Will have to try it in the new apartment ^_^ Maybe blowing This up and putting it on the wall thats painted black already ^_^
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Without the gaps it just kinda looks like a ghetto poster
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