On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:06:18 +1300 Roy Britten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How many images are you trying to join? > > 12001 > > > How big are the images > > (identify -ping <images)? > > Most are 500x500px > > > How big do you want the output image? (All in > > pixels pls.) > > 101000x149000px, assuming I did the maths right. It's not a > rectangular block of images -- the composite is an irregularly-shaped > block padded by a fair amount of whitespace. Wow! With that many pixels, you won't be viewing them at any resolution that justifies the montage. I think that you could think of different approaches; Write a script that loads the images on the fly for viewing - just the ones required for the locale and zoom factor that you choose. Use Imagemagick (or other) to resample the 500x500 images down to a reasonable size to suit your viewing requirements - perhaps have several images at suitable zoom-factor resolutions - and save in a suitable compressed-image format. Combine the above two into a script. I think that I have seen a Tcl/Tk script that does something like that. The IMG extension is pretty powerful, and Tk can arrange the images. You could show the low-res overview and the user could pick the zoom area to view - etc. etc. -- Alasdair Tennant Dunedin New Zealand
