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Journal - General Spiel
This part of the journal contains entries relating to computers in some manner or fashion, though not entries of a technical nature (they go in the technical section). Things like notes on small site tweaks can be found here and maybe the odd link or two.
better (well different) anti-alias method 3rd Aug 2003
I was running up a tubular line graph function to add to the set of datagraphs and decided to try a gaussian blur on non background pixels. The process is rather heavy, though does make the output image look loads better.
Ergo I have decided to add it to the other graphing functions pretty soon. Am also going to recode them as class calls to make the packaging of a full set a lot easier.
Can also (I think) improve the speed of the doughnut algorythm by about four or five fold - will let you know how that pans out.
doughnut graph finally complete 1st Aug 2003
The algorythm for a doughnut graph has been completed.
Just needs a few comments in the distro file and a showcase page.
Sorted the glitch in the perspective with a dodgy code-around and then tweaked another value to make it look a tad more real.
The Doughnut Graph function has finally been completed to a level of satisfaction and can be downloaded from the linked page.
fun with volatiles 25th Jul 2003
I updated an old javascript routine to be more cross browser accessible and decided to try running it from a PHP, MySQL and GD based backend.
The result is a facilty that can take an uploaded image, cut it into pieces (tiles), add a basic edge effect and save a compiled html page. Accessing the html page then runs the javascript routine which scrambles all the tiles and allows the surfer to slowly unscramble the puzzle by clicking on the seperate tiles (clicking two different tiles will swap their places in the display). A completion event just informs the surfer of the amount of time that they took solving the puzzle.
The Volatiles page can be found here.
component colourizer 24th Jul 2003
Needed a slight break from attacking the ImageCopyMerge function yesterday so added an old project to the scriptix-more section.
Component Colourizer uses a greyscale base image and allows the seperate components to be assigned a shading colour through the use of a radio button array. More a proof of concept than a viable project, it should provide a few moments fun.
adjusted download counter 22nd Jul 2003
After seeing the images in 'world news - daily images' I thought perhaps that the thumbnail class had been corrupted and was causing the problem.
Downloaded it to check the code was ok (it was as far as I could see - confirmed with an MD5 checksum return) and automatically added one to the download count - w00t w00t.
Decided I didn't really need a count of how many times I myself have downloaded the file (3 times btw - for testing) so manually adjusted the database. The download counter now shows how many times people other than myself have downloaded the file, which is currently 99 times.
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