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Another bundle of user generated generators, nice work you guys!

Kansas City Royals

The Kansas City Royals design is a regal-looking screen at a ball game.

Yokohama Cafe

The Yokohama Cafe design by user nobirdnolife is a sheet on a restaurant or cafe table, outdoors, with a drink in the foreground.

Netbook at Meeting

The Netbook at Meeting design by user nobirdnolife is a small netbook computer on a fine office table with an owner talking to someone off-screen.

Glowing Movie

The Glowing Movie design by user elporta is a bright screen in a dark movie theater.

Blue Sky Big Board

The Blue Sky Big Board design by user nobirdnolife is a busy street with a big billboard set against a mall.

Scenic Frame

The Scenic Frame design is a framed message on a white-washed wall.

Cluttered Office

The Cluttered Office design is a guy at his desk talking on a phone while gazing vacantly into space. There is a cute little piggy on his monitor.

A Learning Child

The A Learning Child design by user michisjourdi is a child learning from a book.

Swivel Screen

The Swivel Screen design is a laptop with a tilted screen.

Sold Sign

The Sold Sign design by user Josh is a sign showing a sold property.

Art on Easel

The Art on Easel design is a work of art on display on an easel beside other paintings.

Old Book

The Old Book design is a stylized black and white book, with a custom cover.

Brick Wall Billboard

The Brick Wall Billboard design is a billboard on a brick wall beside a red door.

More generators made by users with the Generator Generator:

Movie Board

The Movie Board design is a board above a movie theater.

Caution Sign

The Caution Sign design is a sign advising caution, for a reason you specify. In small print, there is a less significant warning.

The Mirage

The The Mirage design is a sign for a hotel or restaurant called the mirage.

Blue Bus Stop

The Blue Bus Stop design is a bus stop with a blue bus pulled up alongside it.

Branded Bag

The Branded Bag design is a paper bag with your brand on the side.

Tilted Flat Screen

The Tilted Flat Screen design is a big flat screen TV, tilted a little to the side.

Yet Another TV

The Yet Another TV design by user udagawa is another old-style television. Ah, cathode ray tubes. I miss the warm glow of cathode rays on my face.

Sketch Pad

The Sketch Pad design is a drawing pad ready to hold your message.

Here’s the latest round-up of public user-created generators:

London Bus

The London Bus design is a red bus on route to the delightfully-named Hackney Wick.

Big Tent

The Big Tent design is a message on the side of a big tent in a park.

New York Taxi

The New York Taxi design is an ad on a taxi in heavy New York traffic.

Child Reading

The Child Reading design is a toddler reading a book - is it upside-down?.

Bus Stop Palms

The Bus Stop Palms design is a bus stop in a city with palm trees.

Baby Blocks

The Baby Blocks design by user michisjourdi is a baby playing with blocks.

Start Your Engine

The Start Your Engine design is a billboard looming over a nice looking car.

Tree Restaurant

The Tree Restaurant design is a restaurant in Okinawa embedded in a tree.

Another round-up of user-generated generators. As always, you can make your own with the Billboard Generator Generator. Or if you know Blender, you could try the Blender Generator Wizard.

Orange Smiley

The Orange Smiley design by user clydev is a winking orange with an attitude and a message.

Cloudy Billboard

The Cloudy Billboard design is a billboard set against a gloomy sky.

Easter Basket

The Easter Basket design is an Easter basket full of eggs, one of which is laid by you.

Bus Stop Side

The Bus Stop Side design by user clydev is a poster on the side of a bus stop, with pedestrians passing by.

Lady with Painting

The Lady with Painting design by user clydev is a woman examining a painting closely.

Professor Dog

The Professor Dog design by user clydev is a bespectacled dog giving a presentation on his laptop.

Painting Exhibit

The Painting Exhibit design by user clydev is a painting on a wall, with a guide pointing to it and explaining.

Living Room

The Living Room design by user clydev is a picture over a modern fireplace in a stylishly uncomfortable living area.

This week we hit a milestone: the site now has 100 public generators and growing. Thanks to all who’ve been making generators, and especially clydev who’s the first user to have over 10 published generators. Here’s this week’s round-up; thanks to the anonymous creators and to clydev, udagawa, alebur, and techi18.

Sign City

The Sign City design is another billboard in a panoramic shot of Times Square.

Control Signal

The Control Signal design is a traffic signal under your command.

Old style TV

The Old style TV design by user udagawa is a classic old-school television with cathode-ray tubes and knobs and dials and all the works.

Wall Painting

The Wall Painting design by user clydev is a painting being installed by two gloved men. Handle with care!

Dark Tower

The Dark Tower design is a billboard on a looming tower at night.

34th and Seventh

The 34th and Seventh design by user techi18 is a billboard behind a lamppost at an intersection.

Museum Art

The Museum Art design by user clydev is a painting inside a museum room flanked by imposing statues.

Park Billboard

The Park Billboard design is an imposing billboard beside a leafy park, somewhere oriental.

Happy Fans

The Happy Fans design by user clydev is a bunch of guys cheering at a screen.

Simple Keyboard

The Simple Keyboard design is a very low-resolution picture of a very low-complexity user interface. Assuming you know binary machine code of course.

Glowing Screen

The Glowing Screen design by user alebur is a woman looking at a glowing desktop computer in a dim room.

The user-created generators keep on coming. Thanks this week to techi18, clydev, and udagawa!

By the way, there’s a new slideshow function in the works for combining lots of generated pictures into a single presentation. You can see a hint of what is to come by clicking the “slides” action link now showing on any generator page. As always, we’d really appreciate you letting us know if you come across any glitches, or have any suggestions.

Racecar computer

The Racecar computer design by user techi18 is a bizarre race-car/PDA hybrid that looks like it would be neither very useful as a computer or as a car.

Family Viewing

The Family Viewing design by user clydev is a flatscreen TV in front of a family paying full attention.

Window World

The Window World design is a set of computers demonstrating some strange operating system.

Picture Frame

The Picture Frame design is a picture frame, tilted in perspective, for your photo.

Girl With Laptop

The Girl With Laptop design by user clydev is a girl reaching over to a laptop on a counter.

Oriental Fast Food

The Oriental Fast Food design is a billboard over a fast food establishment somewhere in the orient.

Look Up

The Look Up design is a billboard looming over the heads of pedestrians on a busy street.

Flatscreen TV

The Flatscreen TV design by user udagawa is a flatscreen TV on an electronics-filled cabinet, beside a stack of household debris.

Japanese Subway

The Japanese Subway design by user techi18 is an advertisement in a Japanese subway train.

German Office

The German Office design is a billboard on a German office building.

Billboard Buildings

The Billboard Buildings design by user techi18 is a street that is more billboard than buildings.

Cat Meets Laptop

The Cat Meets Laptop design by user clydev is a cat cosies up to a laptop. It is probably nice and warm.

Man Holding Sign

The Man Holding Sign design by user clydev is a man wearing a business suit holding up a sign. He looks determined and resolute.

Van Screen

The Van Screen design by user techi18 is a van with screens on the sides for advertisements.

Wrist Computer

The Wrist Computer design by user techi18 is an unusual looking wrist-based device with a stylus interface.

Dog Meets Laptop

The Dog Meets Laptop design by user clydev is a dog sniffs around a laptop, maybe looking for browser cookies.

Another round-up of new user-created generators. Some are classic billboards in big cities, some are less conventional (Bear Picnic, I’m looking at you). Enjoy! By the way, if you want to make your own generator, the power user page is a good place to start.

Tokyo Lights

The Tokyo Lights design is a cascade of billboards in a Japanese city.

Times Square Night

The Times Square Night design is a bright billboard on the side of Times Square, in the dark of night.

Mobile Billboard

The Mobile Billboard design is an ad on a mobile billboard truck.

Funny Poster

The Funny Poster design by user clydev is a woman looking at a poster (or the mirror) and smiling.

TV on Fridge

The TV on Fridge design by user udagawa is a TV sitting on a fridge, beside a PC. All the necessities of life.

Silver TV

The Silver TV design by user udagawa is a TV screen with a remote on a wooden counter.

Open Air Cinema

The Open Air Cinema design by user clydev is an outdoors movie screening.

Pronged Sculpture

The Pronged Sculpture design is a piece of art with an overlay.

Road of no return

The Road of no return design by user clydev is a billboard by a side of a windy, twisty road.

Couch Portrait

The Couch Portrait design is a comfy couch with space for a portrait-oriented picture behind it.

Bear Picnic

The Bear Picnic design is a bear at a picnic table, with his hairy paws on whatever you want.

We’ve made a nice and cheesy pot-of-gold animation for Saint Patrick’s day, coming up on March 17. Put a photo or text on the gold coins in a leprechaun’s stash at the end of the rainbow:

We’ve had a bit of internal disagreement about what the treasure in the pot should look like. Noemi thinks the rotating-glowing-globe looks silly. However, she admits that the number of leprechauns she’s met in her lifetime is in the single digits, so I don’t see how come she’s this big expert on pots of gold all of a sudden.

However, if you also think the coin-ball is daft, you can instead float a picture on the surface of the Chicago River, dyed green for Paddy’s day every year:

Enjoy!

User-created generators are showing up in a steady stream now, we’re happy to report. Some of our favorites:

• A street sign by JaySticLe, made with the Billboard GOG.
• A spinning button by runningdog, made with the Blender Generator Wizard.
• An iPhone screen by an anonymous user, made with the Billboard GOG.

You can browse more on the complete generator list. So as not to be lazy and leave everything to users, I made a generator too - a green-dyed river as a practice run for St. Patrick’s day. I would like to talk just a little bit about how I did it. The generator looks like this:

It is made exactly like a billboard with the Billboard GOG, with two important differences to the regular rectangular billboards most people are making:

• I wanted photos to be blended with the water, rather than on a blank background. So I unchecked the option for blanking the background. That part was easy.
• I wanted the photo to be behind the people on the bridge (and the bridge itself), and to lie within the borders of the river, which aren’t really straight. So I uploaded a “mask” I prepared in a drawing program (I use GIMP, but you can use Photoshop or anything like that).

The mask I used looked like this:

Preparing the mask took some time, but people who do photo editing regularly could probably do it much faster than I did. After the mask was uploaded, all I had to do was lay out a 3D rectangle that approximated the surface of the river. I did the geometrically correct thing, and it looked terrible. Photos of people would show with shrunken heads and vastly expanded necks, which is not very attractive. So I chose a more aesthetically pleasing (if less geometrically accurate) angle, and that worked out a lot better. It is funny how often taste and physics diverge in computer graphics…