He want a picture that, if you zoom up on it you see that it is made up out of icons, like Hank Aaron.
But if you view the whole image, it looks like a puzzle, or an enigma within an enigma perhaps.
I have to admit that your interpretation of the original message makes sense. However, with the picture of the Microsoft image in a finder window I’m nearly positive that what he wanted to do was create a picture which shows up in finder windows when you open a disk image or CD, for example. It is a technique often used by software developers to artistically embellish a disk image of their installation files.
In case anybody is interested, I popped out a quick little image in Photoshop, turned it into a finder icon picture using Iconizer Pro. The target folder of the icons was then dropped into a disk image and compressed. Unfortunately its still 635K but if you have a high-speed connection it will download in a few seconds. Once the disk image opens, you will have an image in a finder window if it is set to view as icons. If it is set to list or column view, you will see that in fact the image is made of 182 icons and clicking on the ‘view as icons’ button will display the picture as intended.
Its the only file right now on my iDisk…
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Cheers!