Picking wallpaper is difficult, so it's time to bring the power of the internet to bear and crowdsource it instead!
Submit your tile into tiles as a 64x64 pixel PNG image and this script will hopefully slurp them up and turn them into an abominable mess of a wallpaper.
Your tile must be named XX-YY.jpg or XX-YY.png, my desktop is 1920x1080 pixels, and the X and Y coordinates are zero indexed, which gives you the range:
- x = 0 to 29
- y = 0 to 15
So: 01-02.png or 29-15.png are valid.
Have fun! For updates follow me on:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/gadgetoid
- Discord: https://discord.gg/8wRN4WB
- Patron: https://patreon.com/gadgetoid
I don't want too many rules, but put forth this simple code of etiquette:
- Unless it violates the etiquette, I've got to merge your PR
- Smut images are unimaginative, you're better than that
- Racist/hateful images are also unimaginative, seriously, why do I need to even say this?
- Trampling on other people's tiles is kinda mean, but if they're hogging the whole darn wallpaper they kinda deserve it
- Don't PR against the build.py unless you have a bugfix/improvement, I'm not dumb enough to automate it right out of git!
What if every image had an accompanying data file that dictated its x/y position/rotation, etc? Could we make this a crazy graffiti wall of transparent PNGs?
Most of the magic happens in the build.py script, where you can set your own wallpaper and tile size. This script outputs wallpaper.png
On Windows 10 I use WallpaperChanger.exe to change the wallpaper from the command-line. You can find it here: https://github.com/philhansen/WallpaperChanger
EG:
./WallpaperChanger.exe wallpaper.png
I originally planned for this project to be an insane GoFundMe where I fund the purchase of a shiny new monitor (both mine are 8+ years old) by rewarding every donator with a 64x64 slice of my wallpaper forever.
This was a bad fit for GoFundMe though, and my antics feel a little out of place alongside the genuine impassioned pleas for help.
Also GoFundMe doesn't really do rewards, and had no framework in place for me to keep track of donators and make sure they got their slot.
So, this is the result; a git-based system for giving users control over 64x64 chunks of my wallpaper.
In fact you can clone and modify this script to crowdsource X by Y chunks of any size wallpaper or image via Git.
I still need your support, though, and I want to dedicate more of my time to random acts of coding kindness and insanity. If you appreciate all the useful (and silly) stuff that I do then toss me a dollar on Patreon, it's super appreciated: