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• Creating a reflection

  9 juin 2010, par Mikko Koppanen — Imagick, PHP stuff

  Here is a simple example of creating a reflection of an image. The reflection is created by flipping the image and overlaying a gradient on it. Then both, the original image and the reflection is overlayed on a canvas.

  This example is created for Imagick 2.1.x but with a little tuning it should work with earlier versions.

  php

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  1. < ?php
  2.  
  3. /* Read the image */
  4. $im = new Imagick( "strawberry.png" ) ;
  5.  
  6. /* Thumbnail the image */
  7. $im->thumbnailImage( 200, null ) ;
  8.  
  9. /* Create a border for the image */
  10. $im->borderImage( "white", 5, 5 ) ;
  11.  
  12. /* Clone the image and flip it */
  13. $reflection = $im->clone() ;
  14. $reflection->flipImage() ;
  15.  
  16. /* Create gradient. It will be overlayd on the reflection */
  17. $gradient = new Imagick() ;
  18.  
  19. /* Gradient needs to be large enough for the image
  20. and the borders */
  21. $gradient->newPseudoImage( $reflection->getImageWidth() + 10,
  22.               $reflection->getImageHeight() + 10,
  23.               "gradient:transparent-black"
  24.             ) ;
  25.  
  26. /* Composite the gradient on the reflection */
  27. $reflection->compositeImage( $gradient, imagick: :COMPOSITE_OVER, 0, 0 ) ;
  28.  
  29. /* Add some opacity */
  30. $reflection->setImageOpacity( 0.3 ) ;
  31.  
  32. /* Create empty canvas */
  33. $canvas = new Imagick() ;
  34.  
  35. /* Canvas needs to be large enough to hold the both images */
  36. $width = $im->getImageWidth() + 40 ;
  37. $height = ( $im->getImageHeight() * 2 ) + 30 ;
  38. $canvas->newImage( $width, $height, "black", "png" ) ;
  39.  
  40. /* Composite the original image and the reflection on the canvas */
  41. $canvas->compositeImage( $im, imagick: :COMPOSITE_OVER, 20, 10 ) ;
  42. $canvas->compositeImage( $reflection, imagick: :COMPOSITE_OVER,
  43.             20, $im->getImageHeight() + 10 ) ;
  44.  
  45. /* Output the image*/
  46. header( "Content-Type : image/png" ) ;
  47. echo $canvas ;
  48.  
  49.  ?>

  The source image :

  

  And the result :

  

  P.S. Please send me some new images which I can use in these examples

• Official RealVideo Specifications

  29 juillet 2010, par Multimedia Mike — General

  A little birdie tipped me off to a publicly-accessible URL on the Helix community site (does anyone actually use Helix ?) that contains a bunch of specifications for RealVideo 8 and 9. I have been sifting through the documents to see exactly what they contain as the different files seem to be higher revisions of the same documents. Here is the title, date, and version of each PDF document :

  • RNDecoderPerformanceARM.pdf : Decoder Performance on StrongARM and XScale ; May 12, 2003 ; Version 1.1
  • rv89_decoder_summary.pdf : RealVideo 8/9 Combo Decoder Summary ; October 23, 2002 ; Version 1.0
  • rv9_dec_external_spec_v14.pdf : RealVideo 9 External Specification ; November 7, 2003 ; Version 1.4
  • rv8_dec_external_spec_v20.pdf : RealVideo 8 External Specification ; September 19, 2002 ; Version 2.0
  • RV8DecoderExternalSpecificationv201.pdf : RealVideo 8 External Specification ; October 20, 2006 ; Version 2.01
  • RV8DecoderExternalSpecificationv202.pdf : RealVideo 8 External Specification ; April 23, 2007 ; Version 2.02
  • RV8DecoderExternalSpecificationv203.pdf : RealVideo 8 External Specification ; July 20, 2007 ; Version 2.03
  • RV8DecoderExternalSpecificationv21.pdf : RealVideo 8 External Specification ; September 11, 2007 ; Version 2.1
  • RV9DecoderExternalSpecificationv15.pdf ; RealVideo 9 External Specification ; January 26, 2002 ; Version 1.5
  • RV9DecoderExternalSpecificationv16.pdf ; RealVideo 9 External Specification ; August 17, 2005 ; Version 1.6
  • RV9DecoderExternalSpecificationv18.pdf ; RealVideo 9 External Specification ; September 11, 2007 ; Version 1.8

  Additionally, there is an Excel spreadsheet entitled realvideo-faq.xls that appears to contain some general tech support advice for using Real’s official code. There are also 3 ZIP archives which contain profiling information about the official source code (post processing and entropy decoding top the charts which is no big surprise).

  I guess the latest version of each document (the ones dated September 11, 2007) are worth mirroring. Unfortunately, those latest document versions use a terrible font.

• Bye Bye FATE Machine

  4 septembre 2010, par Multimedia Mike — FATE Server

  This is the computer that performed the lion’s share of FATE cycles for the past 1.5 years before Mans put a new continuous integration system into service. I’ve now decided to let the machine go. I can’t get over how odd this feels since this thing is technically the best machine I own.

  
  
  

  It’s a small form factor Shuttle PC (SD37P2 v2) ; Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz ; 2 GB RAM ; 400 GB SATA HD ; equipped with the only consistently functional optical drive in my house (uh oh). I used it as my primary desktop from March 2007 – November 2008, at which point I repurposed it for FATE cycles.

  As mentioned, the craziest part is that this is technically the best computer in my house. My new EeePC 1201PN isn’t at quite the same level ; my old EeePC can’t touch it, of course ; the Mac Mini has a little more RAM but doesn’t stack up in nearly all other areas. But the Shuttle just isn’t seeing that much use since the usurpation. I had it running automated backup duty for multimedia.cx but that’s easy enough to move to another, lower-powered system.

  Maybe the prognosticators are correct and the PC industry has matured to the point where raw computing power simply doesn’t matter anymore. I fancy myself as someone who knows how to put CPU power to work but even I don’t know what to do with the computing capacity I purchased over 3 years ago.

  Where will the Shuttle go ? A good home, I trust– I know a family that just arrived in the country and could use a computer.