Algorithm Arrange images on screen

Question

I need to start building a image application and my customer wants to arrange the picutes in the screen like google tv does, as well as everpix. I have been looking for it for a

Answer 1

Search for photo montage and photo collage algorithms, as well as photo tiling.

An HP article called "Structured Layout for Resizable Background Art" may be helpful.

Numerous collage programs are available for purchase and some software is available in source form; e.g. see hlrnet list, software.informer list, and perhaps this resizing blurb.

The algebra for scaling photos for a collage while maintaining aspect ratios is straightforward and easily described for specific cases, but not for too-general ones.