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Wallcollage

Pick randomly pictures from a directory path and join them to a 2560x1440 collage

Installation

Mac OS X

Prerequisites

brew install imagemagick
brew install ghostscript
gem install bundler

Main installation

bundle config set path 'vendor'
bundle config set with 'development'
bundle install

if rmagic wont compile

brew unlink imagemagick
brew install imagemagick@6 && brew link imagemagick@6 --force

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S imagemagick ghostscript
bundle config set path 'vendor'
bundle config set with 'development'
bundle install

Usage

Command parameters

Usage: wallcollage2.rb [-qp]
    -q, --quantity    # The quantity to include in the collage.
    -p, --path        # The path to the picture folder.
    -w, --width       # The width of the collage. Defaults to 2560.
    -h, --height      # The height of the collage. Defaults to 1440.
    -r, --resolution  # Preset of resolutions.
    -d, --debug       # Activate to get some debug information.

The path cannot inlcude spaces in folder names!

Example usage

bundle exec ruby wallcollage2.rb -p /Users/Rob/Pictures/dump/ -q 19

bundle exec ruby wallcollage2.rb -p /Users/Rob/Pictures/dump/ -q 10 -r 4k

bundle exec ruby wallcollage2.rb -p /Users/Rob/Pictures/dump/ -q 10 -r mbp -d

bundle exec ruby wallcollage2.rb -p /Users/Rob/Pictures/dump/ -q 10 -w 1024 -h 768

The images will be resize to fill a sub-resolution of the whole collage. This will conclude in a collage of 2560x1440. Pick the images from the out/ directory

Supported Units

Image formats

Support for jpg and png only. Preferred picture format should be portrait style. (Best are images with width < height)