tedd wrote: > Now, I realize that this company did not take 15 factorial pictures > of this single piece of jewelry to present all these different > combinations but instead placed smaller images of each of the stones > at specific coordinates on the larger image of the jewelry. > > I imagine that each piece of jewelry must have the coordinates of > each setting in a database so that they can "on-the-fly" assemble the > finished product as per user's direction. > > For example, let's take the image of the basket pendant showing three > stones. Each of the stone locations would have a specific pixel > placement (i.e., x,y). As such, the database would have a field for > the image and three location fields for stones 1, 2, and 3. > > Now, we also have smaller images of 12 different stones (in heads) > that are all the same size. Thus, as the user picks the stones and > positions they want and the image is assembled "on the fly". > > Is that the way you see this?
Yes - each picture is basically a base + a number of overlays. Quickly done with e.g. libgd or some such. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (8.9°C) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
