The Big Picture: From little things: techno artist creates ultimate jigsaw

Saturday 13 December 1997 00:02 GMT

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Techno-art: Photomosaics - such as Flamingo (above), Jeune Homme Nu (below) based on Hippolyte Flandrin's Young Man by the Sea and commissioned portraits of Al Gore, United States Vice-President, and Bill Gates, president of computer giant Microsoft - are created by Robert Silver, president and chief executive officer of Runway Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Silver, 28, developed a software program which arranges thousands of tiny photographs to make a different single image visible from a distance, as the details from Flamingo and the bather on this page show. A number of Silver's shifting-focus, densely detailed works have been made into posters

a Rob Silvers www.photomosaic.com

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