It’s a terrible name I admit (any sugestions?), but it might make an interesting game or at least a passable distraction.
Fotile is a simple web application that takes a photo, splits it into 12 pieces and jumbles it up for you to solve. You click on two pieces (one at a time, of course) to swap them. Photographs can be specified using a URL, a path to a local file or directory (of image files) on your web server (if you are hosting your own copy of Fotile), or loaded from Flickr’s
Interesting section.
The Idea Is This
- Take one of those adorable pictures of your one year old
- Upload it to some public image hosting service (Flickr, img.ly, Posterous, TwitPic, Dropbox, etc)
- Enter the URL at the Fotile Demo and click Load It
- Hand out the URL of the page that loads to your friends and family
And if you lack adorable baby pictures, you can, as noted, enter flickr: for the source, to load a set of photographs from Flickr, for hours of endless fun. ;-)
And More Is On The Way
- Support for Flickr photo sets (so you do not have to keep entering URLs to each of your photographs)
- Support for Flickr protected/private photographs
- Support for Facebook albums
If you would rather be wasting your CPU cycles to run this app, click on the Downloads link, unzip the files into some appropriate directory on your webserver and be on your way to Fotile self-hosting.
Questions? Answers.
