Patches

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About Patches

Like its complement group, Long Line, Patches will collect square photo tiles to create a large mosaic. Individual tiles will have two or more homogenous patches.


Put your mosaics in the showcase! Go to Tiled Up.

Here's the rules:

1. Be hip, be square
Pictures have to be cropped to a square.

2. Have one boundary
Every picture needs to have one and just one patch boundary running through it. The patches separated by the line should be homogenous in appearance and have clear contrast. The boundary should not have substance. If it does, submit the tile to Long Line instead.

3. Connect some square side centers
The boundary can have any shape within the tile, split, run back into itself, etc. But it needs to connect to at least one side of the square. These connections have to be made in the center of the respective sides. For continuity reasons it also can't be at an angle smaller than 45 degrees relative to the side it intersects. The more orthogonal the intersection, the better.

4. Tag it
The picture should be tagged with the "patchtile" tag. In addition there needs to be a "PT" tag coding the sides the boundary connects to in the picture. The sides are numbered, starting from the top in clockwise direction, 1-2-3-4 coding top-right-bottom-left, respectively. A picture connecting the left to the bottom and right would be tagged with "PT234"

5. Be real
The picture can show any real object or objects that contain or create an impression of a line. No computer generated images.

6. License it
The pictures should be licensed with a creative commons license that allows derivative work, so that a mosaic from the images can be made.

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