This is a solution for an assignment to "amplify the background." My dull-witted senses told me that the best way to amplify would be to make more, so the applet adds to the image by grabbing similarly colored squares from the image and placing them around the outer edges.
Thereare all sorts of convoluted and complex methods that could be used for this, but I wanted something basic and I found the individual squares and tiles more interesting.
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