There have been some great innovations that have come out of Google employees’ “20%” time. You know, the mandate from Google that they spend 20% of their time solving problems, building new features, or just changing the world for the better.

This isn’t one of them:

OK, so it probably didn’t come out of anyone’s 20% time, but I’m not sure why this was worthy of a Googler’s precious time. After all, it seems like a complex process:

Part of the appeal of this project was that it was complicated. First, in order to have enough “tiles” to make the underlying image clear, I knew we’d need a really, really large wall. Second, for you to be able to appreciate both the underlying image and the individual tiles, you’d have to be able to see the mosaic from a large distance (so the tiles blend to create the larger image), and also be able to walk right up to it to look at individual photographs. So the wall would have to be at the end of a long hallway. Third, if you can inspect individual images, then those images would have….

WAKE UP! Sorry, I think we both fell asleep reading that.