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Can anyone explain to me what this could possibly mean?
In other news…
Canada on Rails was awesome! They might not mean much alone, but here are my slides:
Gruff Presentation at Canada on Rails
I recorded three podcasts (coming tomorrow) and have a release of Gruff ready, which includes a new composited scene graph that I think is pretty cool (will be uploaded to RubyGems tomorrow).
Partly Cloudy, Daytime
Night, Stormy
(Icons from IconBuffet)
The idea is that you can setup a directory with consistently named files, then control them in layered groups or individually. Files can be named for different times of the day, booleans (“true.png”, “false.png”), or strings (“partly_cloudy.png”, “stormy.png”). You can group them together, then specify some input values, like the time of day or the weather conditions. The engine assembles them for you into a final scene.
Possible applications are a customized weather picture, a map of traffic congestion that changes throughout the day, or an election map that changes colors as results come in.
Examples I was inspired by:
- Red Vespa—A Rails development firm in New Zealand. They have a picture with the current weather in Wellington.
- 6 Weather—A site they were inspired by.
- Seattle Traffic Congestion Map
- Chicago Traffic Congestion Map
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I’m surprised that you actually use the Bubbles Colloquy theme. I personally don’t think that fits IRC at all.
It means why and all his followers are utterly insane.
But that’s the way it should be.
For more on customized weather pictures:
Dunstan Orchard
6 Weather
I like the Dunstan Orchard idea, but it sounds like he created all 90 images manually?
I’m too lazy for that! ;)
With my system, one might have to make even more layers, but it would result in hundreds or thousands of variations of the final composited scene.
More about that next week…
For our “weather cam” we have something like less 20 image files, these are all transparent pngs of a set size that get layered and then rendered as a final outputted image, on average I think we use 6 per final image. We also added special days:http://www.flickr.com/photos/pet3/73464807/ which is just a date based array (a day/month combo) which just layers on another image before we render out.