So I am taking a remote internship and have been tasked with transferring a JPG or a PDF of an image and making it interactive so users can click on their choices, then at the end it determines an answer based on the choices you chose.
I am fairly new at web design and originally thought about creating an image map of the object and figuring out a way to store the selected choices.
Is this even possible? Is the owner of the company out of her mind trying to get interns with no web design experience or guidance to complete this task? If not, what is the best method for completing something like this? Would a PDF be better. Mind you there aren't even real results for this "quiz" yet.
Here is the image they want me/us to make interactive. Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciative.
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I work at a printer where we generate thumbnails of artwork for orders and store them in a folder before printing.
I'm looking for a code library that will allow us to take a photo of a printed item and look through the library of thumbnails for the design.
Just wondered if anyone knows of a library or api that could do this?
Thanks
David
pHash is one solution.
There are others but that mainly depends on your requirements: do you only want to identify identical images, if not, what types of transformations do you want to be able to capture etc.
In general you should look for near duplicate image search.
#david-jennings there are numerous methods to look for similar images in libraries. Remember that google already does this in google images.
Your problem falls under the scope of Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), which aims at looking for images with similarities in their content. MPEG-7 is a standard established many years ago to address these issues and the research field is very active with new techniques being developed constantly.
The main idea in CBIR is to extract some kind of a signature from an image and try to match it with all previously extracted signatures of all images in your database. Which method to use depends upon the specifics of your problem... According to your initial post I suppose that probably the use of SHIFT is going to do the work for you...
You may implement such a system using OpenCV with C/C++/Java/etc., or something more "scientific" using MATLAB.
I'm looking for a tips that I can use to make the following as easy and/or re-usable as possible.
I need to recreate a paper based form in vb6, allow the user to fill in values and then be able to both print out and save the completed form.
I'm thinking of scaning the form and saving it as a jpeg.
Using this jpg as the picture in a picture box.
Overlaying it with checkboxes/textboxes etc.
Saving the values of the various controls to the database
etc.
It seems like a lot of work for just 1 form and not very re-usable.
is there a better way?
Well, if what you want is "easy" - there isn't any tool which will do everything you want automatically. There are tools to turn paper forms into PDFs - but you would still have to do the database work yourself.
As for "re-usable" - I suppose creating a simple web application will fulfill this criteria, because your users wouldn't have to install your application.
my friend is holding a charity quiz night and I was wondering if there was any software that would be good to create an application where the user can choose from two categories and then see a question from that category, then move on to the next two categories and so on.
I thought of Powerpoint or Keynotes for this but they have a very linear slideshow structure is it possible to link to different slideshow from buttons maybe like macros?
Or is there any better software out there that would be a better tool for the job? Bearing in mind it needs to be able to be shown on a projector and without internet access.
Any help would be really great as Im not sure whats the best way to go about this?
Thankyou.
You could use a series of powerpoint slides with buttons for each option. You can splice in a little bit of VBScript to have to buttons keep track of the choises a user made, so that you can present the results in the end.
However with only a trivial bit of searching you could find out that there are dozens of quiz maker applications. I'm not sure which ones are good or bad. But try this query string. To find apps like "Multiple Choise" which looks pretty much like what you are looking for.
Our site creates various crops/sizes (of an image) UPON image upload.
We want to move away from this approach, as our presentation layer/front-end morphs over time, and subsequently, the image presentation size requirements change.
What's the best, most long-term sustainable approach to do this? Guidance appreciated.
We're working with: HTML, CSS, JQuery, PHP/mySQL and Drupal.
The best approach would be to continue generating the thumbnails as you do currently but keep the original uploaded as is. Later down the time, lets say the image requirements change, it would be easier to run a script and re-generate all the images. This way we make sure that we are not doing image croping at runtime, because this can be time consuming and resource intensive.
Let me know if this helps.
Thanks
I've been admiring StackOverflow's default quilt-like profile pictures (which I notice are also on the Fail Blog) and am curious what program both are using to generate them.
But what I really want to know is: If you were to design the system to create default profile pictures, how would you do it?
I'm looking for ideas on what algorithm you'd use, as well as things like how you would related the image to the user, be it related to their username, or some portrayal of their progress (ie the image gets more complex, or larger, as they gain reputation).
FWIW, the default pictures are generated by gravatar, which is why you'll see them on more than this site.
It's called an Identicon. On Stackoverflow it Gravatar uses your IP address to generate the image.
This is an editorial, not necessarily an answer.
Those auto-generated avatars on this site come from a service (Gravatar) that focuses exclusively on providing avatars and is therefore the core of their business. For apps that aren't specifically intended to generate and display avatars, I would just go with an empty placeholder (like Facebook). It's a neat feature, but is it worth your development time when a simple placeholder would be just as effective?
A very good source of images would be flame fractals. They are rather computationally expensive, so simply sourcing them from a project like electric sheep or having them be rendered by the user's computer should be considered to offload the work.
Who wouldn't want default profile pictures like these?
alt text http://sheepserver.net/v2d6/gen/202/124809/icon.jpg alt text http://sheepserver.net/v2d6/gen/202/124805/icon.jpg alt text http://sheepserver.net/v2d6/gen/202/125373/i77.jpg alt text http://sheepserver.net/v2d6/gen/202/125431/i116.jpg
Use a Julia set or something like that and set the initial conditions to a hash of the user's email address.
I'd use a jpeg server tool (aspjpg or similar) to manipulate the image on load so it displays their badges within their profile pic.
In fact, using any tool to dynamically generate images is pretty cool. Applying some sort of 3d or flash technology to dynamically create images using random variables for eye spacing or facial structure would be pretty wicked as well.
But ya this is a weird question. hah!
I did something similar years back, I used POV-Ray to generate little 3D scenes with torusses (torii ?) and spheres. There were lots of parameters to tweak such as the position, size and colour of each object.
POV-Ray is a scriptable 3D render engine, you can find it here.
Unfortunately my images all looked too similar to each other. I love Gravatar's identicons as uses on this site. I think the symmetry helps and the shapes are unique enough that you can identify users fairly clearly.
In ruby there have a library http://github.com/swdyh/quilt to generate it!