What software libraries are available to programmatically create photomosaics?

Question

I'm looking for a library to programmatically create photomosaics of pictures of my kids... it's a toy side project.

I'm on Windows and would prefer a windows-based solution, be it Java or something else that I could run from the Java platform (even if it's .Net, that's cool, as long as I can execute it from CMD).

It needn't be free or open source

Do libraries like this exist?

Thanks!

Answer 1

@marc, check theses .Net apps Mosaictor (from CodePlex) or this PhotoMosaic Generator with C# source code included. additionally you can see this great article Understanding Photomosaics from Dr. Dobbs

Answer 2

By far the best solution I have seen is... http://openzoom.org/

It has generation tools written in PHP, Python, Ruby and maybe others.