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Re: Re: Re: A little fun with merlyn

by wombat (Curate)
on Aug 13, 2003 at 15:53 UTC ( [id://283589]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: A little fun with merlyn
in thread A little fun with merlyn

Not that anyone will read this after all this time... I see a way in which transparancy could really fark up an OCR. Using cascading style sheets, layer multiple transparent images directly on top of one another, so that the signal is broken across two or more files. If that's not enough, then you can add plain HTML text as well behind it.

So you have to find multiple images, which can be placed anywhere (dynamically) in the body segment, and also add in some text that you have to parse out with a tokenizer. :-)

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Re: Re: Re: Re: A little fun with merlyn
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Mar 19, 2004 at 19:44 UTC
    What would be really impressive is if you had a set (maybe, oh, 153 of them) which were 9x17 with one point on each one filled in. Then, pick which ones you need and randomly layer them one on the other. You might hit some (silly) maximum in terms of the number of layers you can have, but it shouldn't be that bad. (In addition, you wouldn't have to stick to 1-dot pictures ... you could theoretically find all the dots you need and randomly break them down into a set of blanks, each with 1 or more dots filled in.)

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