Christian Weiske [2005-02-13 18:29 UTC] IMO the functionality of this package is too specific. I can't think of more than 2 use cases for isometric images from within PHP
Ryan King [2005-02-13 20:08 UTC] I think this package could be very useful for building more advanced CAPTCHAs.
Nobody is Here [2005-02-13 20:36 UTC] Possible use cases I could think about:
- visualization of statistic data
- interactive 3d maps of exhibitions and similar things
- product visualization
- browser games
and I am sure there are more useful things to do with my package. The idea to use it for CAPTCHAs looks very promising to me.
Jesper Veggerby [2005-02-14 20:20 UTC] I can see a usage for this (as Rolf says) together with Image_Graph to create 3D plots - not to say I think it could be pretty cool!
To be able to do this I was considering if maybe it wasn't a good idea to create a image driver class (Image_Graph uses this already, but make it generic as a package for itself).
I know this is similar to the chicken and the egg stuff, but I created a proposal for such a driver:
http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=212
Rolf: would you see if this is something that makes sense for you to use as well (I can see some sense in it), 'cause making Image_Graph use the current proposal is not possible.
Nobody is Here [2005-02-14 23:18 UTC] Jesper: Just wrote a Renderer which uses your proposed Image_Driver. It works very well and I commited it to the cvs at sourceforge.
Olivier Guilyardi [2005-02-15 00:01 UTC] I did code some 3D stuff in PHP a few months ago, for some artistic-like project of mine.
Check it there :
http://samalyse.com/code/rose/rose.php
Here is the source of the image generation script :
http://samalyse.com/code/rose/rose.png.phps.html
I guess your package could have saved me some time, with for example the Image_Isometric_Object3D::rotate*() methods.
And I do see many usage for 3D representations, even for enterprise statistics. The point is that for the user to be able to have a clear view of the object, he/she needs to rotate it IMHO, as in my script (arrows near X, Y, and Z).
In this regard, will you provide some rotate*() methods at the Image_Isometric level, so that one can rotate the whole thing after many addObject()'s ?
Anyway, the examples you show quite convinced me you're doing a great and useful work :-)
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