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iconizer

A free generative art piece — play it in your browser, no install. Turn photos into photomosaics of tiny icons.

by @zntznt · zntznt/iconizer on GitHubLANG TypeScriptHOSTED ON ZNTZNT.COMUPDATED 31 Aug 2026

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Upload a picture and an SVG icon. Iconizer renders the picture as a photomosaic where every grid cell is a tinted, scaled copy of your icon. Tune the grid, the colours, and the motion; export the result as a crisp SVG, a PNG, or an animated GIF.

The whole thing runs in a Y2K / Windows-98 fake desktop, with draggable .exe windows, a Start menu, a scrolling webring, and an animated moiré backdrop drawn live with p5.js.

…and it samples the picture into a grid, then stamps a coloured copy of your icon into each cell.

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