While laughing at the Huckabee's pathetic
moneybomb attempt, I came across a very nice looking
image collage on his site:
For those who have images turned off - it's a time-line of his life with photos and stuff going from bottom (childhood) up to the current campaign. The image was then programmatically sliced into small tiles, with a new tile being revealed per a unit of donations coming in. Within the image are clickable labels for related links. Some of those pics are actually animations (not seen in screenshot above) cycling between several photos showing a similar theme. My first thought was "well done". My second thought was "we can do better", as long as we can find some good graphics designers to take charge of this project.
I'm not into stealing ideas just to repeat them, so if we do this I say we should make it better in a number of ways - bigger, more photos, multiple photos per placeholder to be cycled through randomly, better image joining and animation effects, etc. Ron Paul certainly had a more
interesting life to celebrate in this sort of
collage - grew up on a dairy farm during the Great Depression, married his high school sweetheart, was a star college athlete, worked his way through med school, saved lives during his military service, delivered thousands of babies, became a pillar of his community, had a philosophical awakening, ran for congress, became a lone voice of principle, ran as a Libertarian in 1988, and so on, culminating with one of the most unique grassroots (and netroots) campaigns in the history of American politics!
If someone here can do the image work, the programming (both client and server side) work would be pretty easy. Maybe we can work with the
TeaParty07.com and
RonPaulGraphs.com people to deploy it on their sites.
(Technical notes: Their tiles seem to be 18x18 pixel GIF's, with 25 tiles per row. Since thousands of tiles are involved, putting them together into larger image(s)
via server-side scripts would be most efficient, though putting them together via JavaScript
in the Web browser could allow for some cool effects. They did some animation with multi-tile Flash, but multi-tile animated GIF's, which are easier to generate programmatically, would work as well.)
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