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josh
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What is the method used to obtain the effect where a user selects an item from your online store, and upon checkout can engrave the product and view a preview before putting their order in, are the letters they enter engraved by having an image for each letter, then copying them onto a picture of the product?
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using a convolver, the engraving of the text can be performed ~dynamically.. based on the font used to write the text.. You'd still have to alphablit the resulting image over whatever the thing it's supposed to be over though.. as a convolver will process an entire image...
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So you're saying just write text to the image and try to make it look like it's engraved.. would it be feasible to place an image of each letter, taken from a sample engraving?
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unless it's a small pool of fonts, I'd suggest doing it dynamically.. if the font is loadable from php.. a convolver is a math matrix like routine that performs math on neighboring pixels to get a new current pixel.. basically..
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any convolving classes?
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