A
Arvin Portlock
I'm trying to replicate something in javascript which
is generally done using some realtime image-manipulation
tools and cgi. I want to overlay an arbitrarily-sized
rectangle onto a thumbnail image. You can see an example
of the effect using cgi here:
http://tinyurl.com/4mapk
I found a couple of examples at FAQTs of using clipping
to overlay opaque rectangles, but my rectangles need to
be completely transparent but with a one- or two-pixel
wide red border, just like you see in the example image.
Of course another technique might be to copy that small
rectangular portion of the image onto itself, with a red
border around it--I don't know how to do that either.
I've seen some pretty impressive sites some time ago that
did interesting things with translucent rectangles overlayed
on top of an image, but I can't seem to find them anymore
no moatter how much I scour the web.
Can anybody give me some tips on how to proceed, or sites
that do what I want which I can dissect, or even some
working code?
Thanks everybody!
Arvin
my mail address:
flipomatic 'at' eudoramail 'dot' com
is generally done using some realtime image-manipulation
tools and cgi. I want to overlay an arbitrarily-sized
rectangle onto a thumbnail image. You can see an example
of the effect using cgi here:
http://tinyurl.com/4mapk
I found a couple of examples at FAQTs of using clipping
to overlay opaque rectangles, but my rectangles need to
be completely transparent but with a one- or two-pixel
wide red border, just like you see in the example image.
Of course another technique might be to copy that small
rectangular portion of the image onto itself, with a red
border around it--I don't know how to do that either.
I've seen some pretty impressive sites some time ago that
did interesting things with translucent rectangles overlayed
on top of an image, but I can't seem to find them anymore
no moatter how much I scour the web.
Can anybody give me some tips on how to proceed, or sites
that do what I want which I can dissect, or even some
working code?
Thanks everybody!
Arvin
my mail address:
flipomatic 'at' eudoramail 'dot' com