A great place to start learning about the serverside language PHP is to read the webpage Image Processing and GD because PHP is great in so many ways regarding image creation and manipulation.
The GD methods (down to the pixel level, with the first one) we use are …
What we parameterize is …
- width of image
- height of image
- density of pixels created
- size of conglomeration of pixel (rectangular “blob”)
Today’s PHP code you can download via this pixellate.php link and try it via this live run link. We kind of like some of the images as below …
http://www.rjmprogramming.com.au/PHP/pixellate.php?height=600&width=890&size=6&zeroes=4
http://www.rjmprogramming.com.au/PHP/pixellate.php?height=600&width=890&size=8&zeroes=2
http://www.rjmprogramming.com.au/PHP/pixellate.php?height=600&width=490
Do you feel this web application has the genericity to be a “tool”? Spoiler alert … we think so.
You can see this, also, at WordPress 4.1.1’s PHP GD Image at Pixel Level Primer Tutorial.
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