Fw: "transition" blending adjacent blocks of gray

On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:52:20 -0400
[email protected] wrote:
| I'm new to the list and not an expert on image terminology, so I
| apologize if my post is confusing.
| 
| How can I take a 100x100 light gray square, overlap it by 20 pixels with
| a 100x100 dark gray square, and have a smooth transition between the two
| shades of gray.  I don't want the 20x100 pixel transition to be medium
| gray, I want it to smoothly transistion from light to dark gray.
| 
| My ultimate goal:
| 
| I'm trying to represent a matrix of numbers as an image.  The numbers
| will be from 0 to 1, and each number will be represented as a 100x100
| square in a shade of gray.  The idea is that a person can look at the
| image and get an impression of the values in the matrix by how light or
| dark the image is.  I think hard transitions between squares will be
| distracting, so I'd like smooth transitions.
| 
| Thanks for any advice you can give.
| 

First the better place to get help is to use the IM Discussion Forum
  http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewforum.php?f=1

However as for your problme have a look at  ImageMagick Examples,
Photo Handling, Overlapping Photos
   http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/photos/#overlap

You may also like to look at 
Multi-Image Layers, and specifically  Examples of Layering images
   http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/#example

For Thumbnails, and adding frames, padding, fading around images see
   http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/thumbnails/#fluff



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