>http://www.pergo.com/PergoDesign/US/US_Room_View/1,1033,USA,00.html >Any clues as to a company that would do that? The Pergo one seems to be a Flash app.
This is a bit out of my realm of understanding of graphics, but it seems rather than storing one image of each choice permutation, they created one stock image and then depending on the selection, the corresponding layer within on top of the image is shown. For your example perhaps visualize creating one stock image for both the round & square table tops. For the round table top, you would make 10 images of the round table tops, 1 in each finish each sitting on top of each other overlayed on the stock image. Then create 5 images of the different leg types again overlayed on each other on top of the stock image. Then as a user selects choices you only "reveal" the selected layer. Instead of storing 1000 images of all the permuatations you only have 1 stock image of each tabletop + # of finishes for that table top + # of legs. Then your configurator app starts with some default values for which table finish & legs are to be shown for a table top type. It could probably be done as a thin client app with Javascript, Dynamic HTML & cookies to store state and the users choices but the browser quirks^H^H^H^H^H^Hcompatibilty would drive the deveoper nuts. Having it done in Flash might be more sane. What's the opinion of the guys at Blast? - SL -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
