A big, big time Star Wars fan spent two weeks creating a mosaic version of Eric Dechamps‘ Star Wars themed last supper painting — and he created it completely from frames of the movies.

Avinash Arora created the image from 69,000 images, or what he said amounted to one of every 20 frames from the entire series.

… There are mosaic maker programs out there, and that’s how I started. I used a program that does it for you, didn’t like the way it was turning out, and couldn’t process large files. I “hacked” the program and wrote in my own algorithm, which is a slightly modified version of theirs and requires a really…REALLY powerful computer to compute. Since mine’s just above average it took a long time for the initial composition. Then about 6 compositions later I started working on it manually. By rough estimation, i’d say I replaced about 1200-1500 images manually (cut/crop, etc.) and it improved the image DRASTICALLY. For this reason there are likely to be doubles, but I tried to avoid it.

Arora said that he touched up the colors too to make it look better.

At the end he wound up with a 2GB image that would have measured 5 feet by 11 feet, but the printer’s computer wasn’t powerful enough to open the file. He said he also saw the genius of grommets, but only after his poster was complete.

I didn’t get grommets put in on the first one, and now I’m regretting it… how the fuck do I hang up a 6 foot long 3 pound poster???

For a link to a larger version or more about the process go to Arora’s site; which also provided the images.