On Thursday 29 September 2005 20:59, houghi wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 08:37:02PM +0200, Patrick Fehr wrote: > > This Theme with the animated background: is it possible to use that as a > > daylight accurate background? eg. at noon it's bright sunny, and when it > > rains, it does too... I mean like connected to some forecast like the > > firefox-plugin, can tell me the weather at my very location, even snow > > and that kind of stuff... would be cool to have like a window to the > > outside on the screen :) > > Uhm. This is defenitly not SUPER anymore. I am sure you could change your > background to whatever you want. Connect the data from any wether program > (I use wmweather) and have it manipulate your background with gimp. > > You take a background and with gimp in a script, you first do a layer of > time of day. Next with a layer you do the weathertype and so on. Then you > set that as a background. > > Interesting concept and a lot of fun (and very intensive). > With the differnt parameters, you could even create a mandlebrod immage.
Indeed, your idea is nice, but that's definitely too much work for me at the moment. But just out of curiosity: How could you do the "almost realtime" animation? eg. updated all 2 seconds but in the meantime fading from one picture to another, so you don't have to heat your cpu up to death. And how would you realise that in gimp? Can't really imagine, how you make the connection between gimp-pictures and the animated daylight accurate background. > An other way would be just to connect a webcam. Ain't it crazy that just > looking outside is not really an option for the true nerd? Well I thought about that too, but that would involve eye- or even head-movement, and I don't want to exhaust my body :) And it doesn't have to be the outside of my window, rather like some nice mountains and wide fields instead of grey city around, just the same weather as I have here. Thanks for your reply! best regards patrick --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
