User blog comment:Matsumotorika/Background/@comment-131168-20140429004606/@comment-131168-20140429185001

It was kind of a bummer to get such a strong negative reaction so quickly, but oh well. Let me toss up some other examples with varying settings.

1. Same style as current background minus the blue and text. It first lays down a layer of evenly spaced images to try to prevent gaps, then randomly places 100 more over them. Covers of size ~100x100.  2. Same method as #1, but with covers of ~200x200.  3. Same method as #1, but with covers of ~50x50. 4. Back to the original cover size, but this time without the 100 random ones on top--just the base layer of too-evenly-spaced covers.  5. Trying for a compromise between too-busy and too-orderly, here they're made to be mostly evenly spaced, but with a small bit of randomness so they don't look like they're on a grid.  6. Here's one with the #5 method over the base layer as seen in #4, so there's less likely to be a gap just showing white space.  7. Similar to #6, but with a (non-blue) fade on it--I guess I'm a bit worried that a bunch of covers at full color could be a distraction for the eyes.  8. Tiny covers. :)

For right now the random picker is pretty basic--it randomly picks from any single/album I have covers for, but only regular editions since it's safe to assume that always exists without checking. But even past that I think it could be neat to use specific sets of covers at different times or situations. For instance, only Berryz covers, only 2013 covers, or only Michishige-era Morning Musume covers.