Resembuild is a mobile phone photo collage powered by human intelligence.

The project asks users to reconstruct an image from a series of abstract fragments, using their mobile phone camera. The image pieces are printed on numbered cards (and made available via a custom phone application), and participants are required to take a picture that resembles the one they are given, and submit it via multimedia message (MMS) to a designated e-mail address. They can either find or (re)construct the image from the world around them, and are encouraged to be as accurate (and inventive) as possible.

The final resulting collage – recreating a popular video game character – is showcased online.

It was interesting to see the elements used by the Resembuilders to recreate the image.

For this project I collaborated with Mitch Said.

Project url: http://mitchsaid.com/resembuild