12 Great stuff

A while ago, I’ve spent way too much time trying to solve a similar problem. I’m just not too good at mathematics myself, so you can imagine how grateful I am for this writing!
Thanks!

posted at 11:56 am on July 13, 2006 by Harmen Janssen

13 do they have same components in ColdFusion?

it’s briliant! any ideas how 2 implement this thingy in .cfm(coldfusion)?

posted at 03:32 pm on July 13, 2006 by Sin Liew

14 Brilliant work.

You kiwis are keeping us on our toes.

I recently wrote a PHP script to automatically create thumbnails on upload and place each one centered both vertically and horizontally inside square divs. The overall effect ended up making the thumbnails look a bit like mounted slides. I may be able to combine the two and have a magazine style thumbnail layout. That would rock.

Thanks a lot for the work you’ve done, particularly trudging through the algebra and representing it all visually. I think math gets a bad reputation simply because it is so often presented in a way that appeals to a very narrow slice of learning styles.

posted at 09:29 pm on July 13, 2006 by Derek Pennycuff

15 Math

I’m glad someone else took the time to figure out the math.

posted at 09:56 pm on July 13, 2006 by Roy D

16 General Solution

After reading your article on this, I considered two generalized solutions:

n images across (all the same height, but within a specified width)
and
n images in the left column and m images in the right.

After a small amount of math, the generalized solution falls out.

If anyone is interested in this general solution, I can post it.

posted at 10:50 pm on July 13, 2006 by Alex Bentley

17 Now with links

Harvey,

Thanks for an excellent script. I love applied mathematics and automation in web pages. Rules rule!

I have incorporated the script in a slightly modified form in some of my pages. I needed to be able to link from the generated images to a page with a full size copy.

By adding a [link] parameter in the template and an extra argument to addImage() plus a few other modifications, I could fairly easily accomplish this.

You can see it in work here:
http://500th.net/index.htm?id=55&day=20060712
http://500th.net/index.htm?id=55&day=20060713

I’d be happy to share this code. It’s quite simple.

Thanks again

Martin

posted at 12:12 am on July 14, 2006 by Martin Joergensen

18 Textpattern

Hey Guys….I ported Harvey’s code into a Textpattern (little “p”) plugin real quick. You can find the forum thread here.

posted at 03:35 am on July 14, 2006 by Walker Hamilton

19 General and Linked solutions

Harvey – Great script, really useful. Martin and Alex, I’d love to see what you worked up. And Martin, those are some great pictures.

Thanks to all three of you!

posted at 03:57 pm on July 14, 2006 by Isaac N

20 Why use HTML

Excellent article.

In addition to what Harvey already mentioned, I wouldn’t be surprised if the file size of a combined image would actually be larger then the sum of the small ones. Simply getting the padding/transitions between the images looking sharp enough would necessitate using very little compression on the JPG. In most cases a sliced up image will produce better looking results with a lower overall file size.

That said there are probably going to be to be times when it is more appropriate to use the single image scheme.

posted at 07:55 pm on July 14, 2006 by Ryan Heinen