Timeline for How are dynamic images programmed?
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| May 23, 2016 at 7:49 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackProgrammer/status/734652405544030208 | ||
| May 3, 2016 at 18:26 | vote | accept | Fabrício | ||
| May 3, 2016 at 11:21 | answer | added | esrange | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 3, 2016 at 1:32 | comment | added | user22815 | @Fabrício I rolled back your edit because it changed the question too much, both making it "too broad" and invaliding the lone answer that is both accepted and highly-upvoted. If you need to ask a different question then I recommend distilling your new question down to something that is reasonably focused, and perhaps looking at other SE sites that may be more appropriate (but please check with a site's help center and meta site before posting to ensure positive reception). | |
| May 3, 2016 at 1:30 | history | rollback | user22815 |
Rollback to Revision 3
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| May 2, 2016 at 20:33 | history | edited | Fabrício | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 2, 2016 at 20:17 | comment | added | Fabrício | @StevenBurnap Yes is really interesting. I spent some time trying to understand what was going behind the scenes, and yes it's generated on fly, as Rachel explained very well. My guess is they have a large number of images and then the back-end service combines the images according to the user selection, probably using ImageMagick. | |
| May 2, 2016 at 15:12 | history | reopened |
Rachel Bart van Ingen Schenau Corbin March user22815 svick |
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| Apr 29, 2016 at 22:43 | history | edited | user22815 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Trivial edit to reverse downvote.
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| Apr 29, 2016 at 12:33 | comment | added | gnat | this question is discussed at meta | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 22:11 | comment | added | user53141 | They are likely generating on the image on the fly, which is the interesting bit. (And not visible in the page source.) There are over 2.3 million possible images based on the combinations you pick. | |
| Apr 28, 2016 at 14:31 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Apr 27, 2016 at 23:48 | history | closed |
gnat Robert Harvey Jörg W Mittag Ixrec user22815 |
Needs details or clarity | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 20:56 | vote | accept | Fabrício | ||
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| Apr 26, 2016 at 17:34 | answer | added | Rachel | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 16:57 | comment | added | NiCk Newman |
They are just updating the img attribute to a difference image source on hover. This and this. Nothing fancy here. Inspect Element is your best friend
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| Apr 26, 2016 at 16:11 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | That's a fairly clean page, from an HTML perspective. I would imagine that you could study the page source (after pretty-printing the Javascript), and learn everything you ever wanted to know about how that page works. | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 16:04 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 26, 2016 at 16:02 | history | edited | Rachel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
trying to avoid closure, I think this is an interesting question
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| Apr 26, 2016 at 15:56 | comment | added | Rachel | No experience here, but my thoughts are it is either A) multiple versions of each "component" of the image, which then assembles them into one combined image and presents to the user, B) a photo for every single variation, or C) an image with a color overlay, like this. I would personally try to go for A. B is too much maintenance and C isn't really accurate. A combination of A and C is probably used there, as if you hover over some of the gems they are 100% identical except for color, which is not the case in nature. | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 15:42 | history | asked | Fabrício | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
