[lug] Creating a cute graphic on webpage

[John Vonachen]

I recently wrote a web service that takes a PHP snippet, generates POV
scripts and runs them through POVRay, headless.  That way you can generate
ray-trace images for web sites.

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Michael J. Hammel <
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 19:01 -0400, Gordon Golding wrote:
> > I am working with a remote sensing cluster.  Rather than just show
> > numbers, I want to come up with an informational graphic.
>
> Lots of options, some already mentioned.  CSS is a nice clean one but
> you'll still have to write the code that outputs the CSS and a web page
> that uses it.  Still, not a bad solution.
>
> Others:
>
> 1. FusionCharts: Flash based graphs.  http://www.fusioncharts.com/free/
> There are Drupal modules to support this:
> flashnode
> fusioncharts
> I've used this for a social engineering web site prototype project.  At
> least the charts looked nice.
>
> 2. Java: JFreeChart: http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/
> I never liked embedding Java in a web page.  But I found the API easy to
> use in a standalone Java application I wrote.
>
> 3. PHP: PChart: http://pchart.sourceforge.net/
> I think we looked at this when doing that social engineering project.
> Not sure why we didn't pick it.  Maybe because at the time it may not
> have had a Drupal module available.  But I could be wrong.
>
> 4. C, Perl: ImageMagick: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
> If you just want to code it to generate images, this may be the way to
> go.
>
> 5. PHP: PHP-GD (using GD Library): Just google for "PHP GD"
>
> 6. HTML5 - no idea if this would work, but something tells me you can do
> some interesting things here: http://diveintohtml5.org/canvas.html
>
> You can also script this in GIMP but you gotta know Python or Script-Fu
> (Scheme), neither of which I know.
>
> Personally, I think I like the CSS option.  If you're clever, you can
> generate some interesting stuff with CSS.  See the Zen Garden for
> examples: http://www.csszengarden.com/
>
> --
> Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>
>
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