I ran into a link to The Rasterbator a month or two ago and was curious as to how it’d turn out. Essentially it takes an image file you submit and creates a rasterized version of it, essentially a picture with only a white background and black circles of various diameter on a set grid. The “darker” the the part of the image, the larger diameter the black circle is.

I, of course, choose to do a portrait of myself [link dead], namely one that I took while in El Paso for the Sun Bowl.

The software on the site allowed me to crop the part of the image I wanted and then let me choose how many sheet of paper to print it on. I choose 2×2 since my printer was running out of toner.

It then processes your image and returns a pdf file of the output. In case you are curious, here’s the pdf output [link dead].

So I printed it and hung it on the wall. The final result:

I decided it looked pretty good, so I made one of Dave too: