Weโve found a new reason to tinker with deliberate image blurring on top of the usual โฆ
- hiding sensitive data on images (where we find Gimp very good to use)
- as an SVG filter as used in Gimp Guillotine Follow Up SVG Filter Tutorial
- video blurring effects (via CSS โblurโ filter) as shown at Video via Image Filter and Canvas Magnifier Tutorial โฆ and now, today, weโre interested because โฆ
- a game weโve opened up to being an Inline HTML Email Form quiz benefits from having a โblurredโ (actually bad resolution) image presented in an email
โฆ stemming from a renewed desire to exhaust our interest in โฆ
- data-URI image
- Inline HTML Email
โฆ readily admitting that Gmail Webmail (email client) is a no go, but Apple Mail is a go, so we will offer an โaโ link alternative for those email clients that do not allow data-URI images.
Our other interest was whether we could involve Google Charts directly in an Inline HTML Email. Well, it pans out โฆ โnot directlyโ โฆ but what if we make use of the great Google Page Insights webpage screenshotting โsmartsโ (that we combine with Ajax). We were wary of URLs presented to Google Page Insights that involved โ&โ (second and on) argument delimiters, but on revisiting this, pleasantly surprised by these URLs working to โฆ
- present a Google Chart after asking the user for graph drawing parameters
- those parameters allowing for a quiz emailee address to be defined, in which case โฆ
- the PHP web application, building on the previous one of Mathematics Equation Google Chart Line Chart Primer Tutorial calls Google Page Insights to receive a data-URI string as the โsrcโ parameter for an โimgโ element that shows โฆ
- in an Apple Mail (but not Gmail Webmail) email this data-URI (user defined parabola) image shows very blurry, too blurry to make out the numbers, so โฆ
- as a quiz for that emailee we can ask them to try to guess what the user placed for โฆ
y = ?x2 + (?)x + (?)
โฆ but โฆ - to avoid too much frustration, we offer a pretty helpful โHintโ link both for Gmail Webmail users (who will not see that data-URI image) and other users a tad worried by image blurriness you can see in todayโs animated GIF presentation
And so there is now a new โParabola Quizโ component to this Parabola Equation PHP (and Google Chart Line Chart interfacing) web application for you to try with the liverun that you could call parabola_lgraph
php and which changed in thisway.
Previous relevant Mathematics Equation Google Chart Line Chart Primer Tutorial is shown below.
In the recent Mathematics Equation Backtracking Game Primer Tutorial we found that there was not much to do to consider the drawing and display of a straight line by saying the a in โฆ
Y = aX2 + bX + c
โฆ is zero โฆ and this turned the parabola data our Google Chart Parabola Line Graph code was initially designed for, into code that could display a straight line. But what about other equations? Well, we think the same code should suffice for that too, though we have to rearrange a fair bit more for that idea in the code, and ask a lot of the user. They use the ^ for โpower ofโ for instance, and weโre sure weโll think of more issues with requirements on this as time goes on, but the initial extension to functionality thoughts here swirled around equations where the most complex it gets for a parabola is โto the power ofโ 2. What about equations of curves of other powers bigger than 2 and less than 1, including negative powers. Given some suitable entries by the user, this is now possible using this same one codebase utilising the Google Chart Line Chart web application interface with this liverun that you could call parabola_lgraph
php and which changed in thisway. So you can look at todayโs tutorial picture, and below weโd like to show you a Cubic Polynomial, as we found discussed at this useful link, thanks.
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