"Live Tile" Background on Mac

What I'm looking for is a way to have a changing tile background on my laptop and desktop Mac's. What I'm imagining is similar to the "Shifting Tiles" screensaver on the Apple TV. I know I can set the backgrounds to change/rotate on a given interval, but is there a way to have it randomly display pictures in this tiled fashion?
A little clarification, I do NOT mean using the "Tile" option in the photo-view drop down with the other options like "Fit to Screen" or "Stretch to Fit". That's not what I'm talking about. The tile images have anywhere from 5-8 random photo's from iPhoto or another folder and fit together in a jigsaw manner, while changing one every couple of seconds.

there's Blackmagic's On The Air
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/on-air/
Wirecast from Telestream does live switching for webcasts
http://www.flip4mac.com/wirecast.htm
there's also LiveChannel Pro but that seems to have disappeared
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17712&vid=291843&mode=info

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Sorry, I was a little bit confused from the attached picture.
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CODE TO PASTE
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I got mine from http://www.buildmypinnedsite.com/en
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name="msapplication-TileColor"
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