10,000 iPhone App Icon Mosaic

[MacRumors]

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iPhone developer TapTapTap put together (http://www.taptaptap.com/blog/10000/) this photo mosaic to mark the 10,000 app milestone in the App Store.

A higher quality and full size mosaic is available on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tap-tap-tap/3074199062/).

Article Link: 10,000 iPhone App Icon Mosaic (http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2008/12/01/10000-iphone-app-icon-mosaic/)

[~Shard~]

Wow, someone has too much time on their hands! Mind you, with technology these days it may not have been that time consuming. ;) Nonetheless, quite impressive!

[Small White Car]

I love the full-sized one. I've never even seen 95% of these icons before.

[PlaceofDis]

probably done similarly to the way xUKHCx's MR avatar mosaic was made, but still awesome.

[puckhead193]

wow that's cool...now if only i had an iphone :rolleyes:

[happydude]

pretty cool

[xUKHCx]

probably done similarly to the way xUKHCx's MR avatar mosaic was made, but still awesome.

I was thinking the same thing :D

If someone wants to do something similar I can recommed MacOSaiX (http://homepage.mac.com/knarf/MacOSaiX/) or MozoDoJo (http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/mozodojo_en.php).

They are quite fun and relatively easy to make.

[chr1s60]

Nice idea. It is pretty cool to look at all the different icons in the full size picture.

[creator2456]

Now I want to see a flash version where clicking on the icons enlarges them and provides info on it and a link to the store.

[Yvan256]

Now I want to see a flash version where clicking on the icons enlarges them and provides info on it and a link to the store.

You really don't need Flash to do that.

[creator2456]

You really don't need Flash to do that.

True, just working in flash at the moment so it came out as I typed.

[ucfgrad93]

I love the full sized one, it looks awesome!

[overcast]

Neat, but they should of used the original iPhone icons and not ones from the app store that are unrecognizable.

[nakile]

Am the only one who sees Apple using something like this in a TV ad?

[~Shard~]

Am the only one who sees Apple using something like this in a TV ad?

Has Apple ever advertised the App Store specifically though? I can only recall brief mention of it in a couple iPhone commercials. Regardless, it would be reminicient of the iTMS ads from a few years back.

[atlandrew]

They are missing quite a few apps (4 that I wrote)...and use the same ones over and over.

Can anyone else find: iCanSketchIt, Triple Card Poker, Beer Finder, or Hi Lo?

:)

--Drew

[Delirium39]

They are missing quite a few apps (4 that I wrote)...and use the same ones over and over.

I don't see mine either, and I see a lot of duplicates.

[funnyent]

thats awesome!

[return7]

pretty neat

[mikeinternet]

Wonder where they got access to all the icons. Hate to think of someone manual copying these from a site or something.

And, I second that they should have used the original icons.

[alphaod]

I see a few I recognize.

[arn]

Wonder where they got access to all the icons. Hate to think of someone manual copying these from a site or something.

AppShopper.com supplied the icons.

arn

[Anonymous Freak]

The big problems must have been the fact that you just couldn't do it if you included each and every app exactly once.

There might not be enough black-background apps for the phone; too many red apps to realistically do a red icon, etc, etc. They'd have to fudge the 'source' picture quite a bit, I imagine, to get one that works with the exact 10k icons. (The background likely wouldn't be white, it would be a funny mish-mash; since I doubt there are *THAT* many mostly-white icons.

[PocketGamer]

And my app is one of them!

I feel like I've achieved something - sad but true. :)

[Maxington]

Sweet sauce. That looks fun.

[iphonewiz]

Wow that took a lot of work! Good job!

[andreab35]

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Wow... This is extremely cool! I'm amazed of this project put together!
Nice work TapTap!

[sushi]

DL'ed the large version.

Very nice. :)

[Kevster89]

I was thinking the same thing :D

If someone wants to do something similar I can recommed MacOSaiX (http://homepage.mac.com/knarf/MacOSaiX/) or MozoDoJo (http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/mozodojo_en.php).

They are quite fun and relatively easy to make.

Thanks for posting those 2 links. Cool programs!

[Eastny80]

Nicce!