Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 11/16/05 08:43

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:15:49 +0000, Mimic <dev@null.com> wrote:

>Toby Inkster wrote:
>> Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
>>
>>
>>>http://www.backwater-productions.net/alt.2600/
>>
>>
>> I must admit I quite like this. There's nothing there which is technically
>> difficult, but pulling it altogether into a cohesive whole must have taken
>> quite a bit of effort, and it certainly seems a very original idea.
>>
>> I did something with "liquid backgrounds" about 9 months ago but it's
>> nowhere near the same level of complexity -- whatsmore it uses a
>> pre-generated set of resized images. I would imagine that generating them
>> on the fly as you do would put quite a bit of CPU load on your server.
>>
>> Mine is: http://examples.tobyinkster.co.uk/grad/grad
>>
>> [X-posts snipped as my server doesn't like x-posting to too many groups.]
>>
>
>I have done some work with it also, in the past. Where the images are
>generated on the fly, but then cached, so the most common window sizes
>are catered for without having to rebuild the image each time. Works
>well, there was just one javascript bug I never got aroudn to fixing,
>nothing drastic and you wouldnt know its there. But I do :P

Yeah Mimic's done all SORTS of stuff...that interestingly enough no
one has ever ~ACTUALLY~ seen...but uh...he claims he's done it...of
course, so do a lot of people. ^_^

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Onideus Mad Hatter
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http://www.backwater-productions.net

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