Designing a mosaic with nip2

I used nip2 to help design a splashback for my kitchen. This is the tiled area that runs along the wall behind the worktop.

The rest of the kitchen will be white, so it'll need a bit of colour. The tiles are Waxman Harmonie. They are cheap and come in a good range of colours. The picture above is assembled from photographs of tiles, so hopefully the colours and textures are about right.

Here's the workspace that made that picture. I drew the graphic elements first in the paintbox (designs copied from The Pacman Dossier), then positioned them on a correctly sized background. A foldr loop then swaps each pixel colour for the appropriate tile texture. FInally, the grouting is pasted on top.

Everything is live, so you can edit pixels in the graphic elements on the left and the final tile design will update. Fun!

Download a zip with all the files here.

updated 27/11/12: I made a better version of the workspace and modified the text and graphics accordingly.

update 29/1/13: Here's a photo of the almost finished kitchen showing the mosaic.

In the final design I changed the background colour to something much more neutral and made the background dots black. The tiles are mounted on concrete board screwed to the wall so if the next owner hates this kitsch thing they can easily remove it. There's a matching mosaic behind the sink. The tiling was done by Dalius, who did a great job.