[coco911231]

So after the obvious fap joke, we get to rasterbation part.

Rasterbating and Rasterbation is the act of turning a regular digital picture you may have taken or found online and turn it into a huge poster. Most of the time by cutting up the image digitally and printing it out piece by piece to be put back together and form a large image.

here are some tools used with Rasterbation:

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ - Takes some time and tedious if your trying to bet something spot on, but prints at full quality, no dots or any of that muck

http://arje.net/rasterbator - What I use, it takes the image and makes it out of a bunch of dots, then puts it into a pdf file, very quick so if you need to troubleshoot like say, getting the correct max dot size number, its good for that, but only prints in those tiny dots, Who needs lines anyways?

Rasterbation gallery, Post your works for them to be added to the OP

My own little bit of Rasterbation


Fingers!!!'s "Akira"

So go ahead! Rasterbate all day long, it's okay, I'm sure no priest or your ultra religious grandmother will yell at you (unless you're using their printer! )

[Doozle]

I wanted to print some record sleeves in large format, I might do this instead

[coco911231]

Doozle posted:

I wanted to print some record sleeves in large format, I might do this instead

Probably would be cheaper.

[gerbile5]

this sounds pretty fucking awesome. i should try doing a metallica poster

Edited:

this must take a shitload of ink doesnt it

[coco911231]

gerbile5 posted:

this sounds pretty fucking awesome. i should try doing a metallica poster

Edited:

this must take a shitload of ink doesnt it

i wouldnt say so, that post i made in the OP is 33x32" in black and white, i don't make em in color cause i like to conserve as much as i can

Edited:

but if you want to conserve ink, use the downloadable rasterbator in the op.

[ewitwins]

Would a mosaic still count as rasterbation?

[fruxodaily]

Hey this looks cool! I might try it some day.

[breakyourfac]

Is this hard to do? My room looks boring as fuck and this looks like a good way to spice it up a little.

[TehWhale]

This works better if you have photo paper instead of copy paper

[Tark]

This looks amazing, about how difficult is it to put together, say, a 5x8 set?

[Beezleboss]

I did one of these years ago, it was blockposters but still.

I used this picture.

[DainBramageStudios]

[_Maverick_]

DainBramageStudios posted:

your wall is ready

[MasterFen007]

I'm going to give this a go today, give me a chance to try out the wifi printing on my printer!

[Tiowa]

I used to go to the school library to print these cause I didn't want to waste my ink

[Luafox]

DainBramageStudios posted:

I want that

[coco911231]

Tark posted:

This looks amazing, about how difficult is it to put together, say, a 5x8 set?

Not "Difficult" at all, just a tad tedious if your going to be cutting off all the edges.

[feloix13]

Holy shit I always wanted to do that, but never actually knew how it was called. Thank you Op!

[Porcupine162]

I rasterbated a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger on my wall. It's huge man.

[cosmic duck]

Did one of these a few years ago. It's still in my bedroom.

[triFeral]

I got everything I need to do this, but I need a good image.

[Oicani Gonzales]

I once did this [manually] for a friend of mine.
He's got a 36x14 panorama poster on his wall.

[kevlar jens]

my walls are dangerously dull, so I might give this a shot.

[DainBramageStudios]

cosmic duck posted:

Did one of these a few years ago. It's still in my bedroom.

people who don't know half-life 2 might think you're compensating

[kidwithsword]

I actually wanted to do this with a picture of pedobear that I was going to put on the top of my school. But the entire thing is useless if satellite images of the area aren't being taken on that day.

[The Kitteh]

Whats it called when you rasterbate, then masturbate to your work?

[dgg]

The Kitteh posted:

Whats it called when you rasterbate, then masturbate to your work?

Masturbating.

If you want to describe it, then; masturbating to a rasterbation.

[hgncommand]

My friend has a picture of themselves across their wall, I might do a picture for fun.

[Errorproxy]

Generic.

[SNNS-SEAN]

I'm going to rasterbate a picture of my penis on my wall.
That'll be a good conversation starter for guests.

[Ninja Duck]

I need to try this. My walls are bland.

[triFeral]

Anyone got an extremely high-res Portal 2 picture?

[likesoursugar]

coco911231 posted:

Cool, that's banksy.

[Jukka K]

coco911231 posted:

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

The fuck? The name "homokaasu" is Finnish and means "Gay Gas" in English.

[Occlusion]

I have posters everywhere the but lines through the middle of all of these would bug the fuck out of me.

[Redskins1234]

This looks like a cool way to spice up my boring room, might buy some photo paper and give it a try.

[noiprocS]

DainBramageStudios posted:

people who don't know half-life 2 might think you're compensating

Bitches dont know about my citadel

[Roflchopper]

Tried this a year ago, could never get it to look right :(

[Leaf Runner]

my mum walked in on me rasterbating with the printer and she got angry and told me im not her son, what do I do

[dgg]

Leaf Runner posted:

my mum walked in on me rasterbating with the printer and she got angry and told me im not her son, what do I do

Rasterbate your birth certificate and show it to her.