![Kate 01](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate01.png)
![Kate 02](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate02.png)
![Kate 03](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate03.png)
![Kate 04](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate04.png)
![Kate 05](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate05.png)
![Kate 06](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate06.png)
![Kate 07](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate07.png)
![Kate 08](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate08.png)
After successfully using image recognition software for the Bella series to crop the source images to make my pixel portraits using the processing computer language, I was looking for different ways to combine the images. I still wanted to retain the original pixels, and not blend them, but just swap them in different ways, or maybe combine more than 4 images at the same time.
So I collected images of Kate Moss and started experimenting with combining more than one image.
My first experiment was to use ALL the images I collected, and just pick a pixel from each image and then go to the next, and start over when I reach the end of the images. I had 75 images to work with, and if I used them all at the same time I ended up with this image, which is recognizable, but much to blurry for my taste, it misses all expression:
![Kate (fixed 74 images)](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Kate-fixed74images.png)
Another experiment, where I randomize the order of the images, so as to lose the textured grid over the previous image, resulted in this:
![Kate (random 74 images)](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Kate-random74images.png)
Which is also too blurry and loses all expression.
I experimented with a lot of settings for the number of images to use, and the number of pixels to copy in a row, to use all rows or all columns. These are some of the intermittent results that I ultimately rejected.
![](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/portret0.png)
![](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/portret0-1.png)
![](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/portret8.png)
![](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/portret6.png)
![](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/portret35.png)
![](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/portret26.png)
In the end I settled on an amount of 5 source images, and swapping horizontal rows. This created a very striking visual effect, but at the same time nicely articulated and expressive portraits. I like the sharpness they have, and the retro feel beaus the lines remind me of television lines.
![Kate 01](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate01.png)
![Kate 02](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate02.png)
![Kate 03](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate03.png)
![Kate 04](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate04.png)
![Kate 05](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate05.png)
![Kate 06](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate06.png)
![Kate 07](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate07.png)
![Kate 08](https://www.xndre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kate08.png)