he writes an excellent example of why "all that computer sciency stuff" is usefull in day to day programming, yet still wants to take pride in his ignorance, like this is some strange sort of fluke.
The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery
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Re: The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery
#12What's just as impressive is the full size view of the image. The background brings the ambient colour of the photo to make it more immersive. Very nice!
Nice catch ... it so subtle i didn't notice but none the less a very nice feature. Love the execution of their idea!
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#13Maybe I'm missing the point but why is this an achievement? I've seen Google images do this for years (from the backend, sends the users viewport dimensions and then automatically calculates the optimum filling). For years (Warning NSFW!) vusker.com has been doing this client-side in their thumbnail and gallery view. Plus look at the vertically stacked posts from Pinterest. It seems more a marketing ploy to get atten…
Granted, maybe pinterest is a bad example in regards to optimum page filling.
I substitute it with flickr's latest design overhaul.
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#14I would love to see chromatic as a service I can pay for, maybe sell me a wordpress plugin?
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#15Is it supposed to reload previously viewed images when the user scrolls up or down?
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#16I just implemented pretty much the same thing from scratch for my wedding gallery¹. For each row, it tries 3-10 images, sums their aspect ratios, divides the total row width by the sum to get a candidate height, then picks the height that's closest to the average of the existing rows. To make things look a bit nicer, it rejects candidate rows with the same number of images as the last row. I might release the code on…
I'm not seeing any images on Chromium. Just a blank white screen with "Matt & Sophie's wedding photos" at the top.
Congrats on the wedding though.
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#17that looks very good, but navigating with the 'back' button breaks the app. tested on FF24 / opera 15.
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#18that looks very good, but navigating with the 'back' button breaks the app. tested on FF24 / opera 15.
back button also breaks it in chrome 28 on a mac
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#19"Remember the days in college when you learned all about the big Oh!'s and re-implemented all these sort-algorithms for the hundredth time? If you are a web developer like me, chances are you never had to touch a single one of these algorithms ever again." +1
It's a good start, but when the window is shrunk, the result isn't as impressive.
Re: The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery
#20I just implemented pretty much the same thing from scratch for my wedding gallery¹. For each row, it tries 3-10 images, sums their aspect ratios, divides the total row width by the sum to get a candidate height, then picks the height that's closest to the average of the existing rows. To make things look a bit nicer, it rejects candidate rows with the same number of images as the last row. I might release the code on…
I'm not seeing any images on Chromium. Just a blank white screen with "Matt & Sophie's wedding photos" at the top. Congrats on the wedding though.
Maybe Chromium is blocking the redirection to cloudfront, where the images are hosted? I had to tell Firefox's RequestPolicy, to let these requests pass...