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 Obama Portrait Made of Over 12,000 Gumballs for Ripley's Believe it or Not Published: Feb 16, 09 Views: 1,704 We’ve seen celebrity portraits made of jelly beans, and even out of ABC (already been chewed) gum, but now Obama has been forever immortalized in a multi-colored gum ball mosaic. Thanks to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, you can now look at a delicious Obama portrait made of 12,784 gumballs —that’s worth a lot of quarters! “When Ripley’s Believe It or Not! asked artist Franz Spohn if he could create a portrait of Barack Obama from thousands of gumballs, the artist, along with a bunch of kids from Ohio said, ‘Yes, we can!’” the Ripley’s Newsroom says. Now that’s a sticky idea! Check out some more chewable celebrity mosaics below.  How did they do it? The portrait contains 12,784 gumballs. Using computer technology, Spohn uses the gumballs as pixels, or points of color. He creates the design on a computer and then makes a map showing where each color of gumball goes. Volunteers follow the map and place the appropriately colored gumballs into clear plastic tubes. The 90 tubes are then mounted next to each other to form the unique portrait.
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