Re: Happy Diamond Jubilee everyone!

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Bastien Koert

On 2012-06-02, at 4:51 AM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> Paul M Foster <paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 06:44:17PM +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>> 
>>> This is a bit of a shameless plug, but it is a Friday and a pretty
>>> special weekend over here.
>>> 
>>> I recently got to work on something a bit fun at work in my spare
>> time
>>> and they liked it so much that it got used internally to celebrate
>> the
>>> jubilee weekend.
>>> 
>>> This is the result http://jubilee.themlondon.com 
>>> 
>>> For those of you interested, the leg-work is done by a bunch of PHP
>>> scripts run in the background via cron, split into 3 tasks:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>     1. A script goes out and searches Twitter for tweets that
>> mention
>>>        the jubilee, one instance per keyword and records those to a
>> DB
>>>        to limit the draw on the Twitter API
>>>     2. A second script goes over those tweets and pulls in all the
>>>        non-default profile images for each unique user
>>>     3. Lastly, the image is built as 12 separate tiles every half
>> hour,
>>>        using PHP and GD to match the average colour of each profile
>> pic
>>>        to a spot on the image, and then these are stitched together
>> for
>>>        the final image
>>> 
>>> Anyway, hope you guys all have a great weekend, more so if you're
>>> unlucky enough to be working over the whole 4 days :-/
>> 
>> *Very* nice work!
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
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> Thanks, it did take a little while to get right. I might be able to post some bits of code if anyone is interested?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://ashleysheridan.co.uk
> 
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I'm sure lots of us are interested. It's very cool. Nice job!

Bastien
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