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Re: No controversial contents. Just questions :)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edith Au)
Fri Aug 18 20:16:45 1995

To: David Holcombe <holcombe@hep.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 17:42:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Edith Au <edith@pencom.com>
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <9508181918.AA05467@gold.hep.net> from "David Holcombe" at Aug 18, 95 02:18:55 pm

David,

  Thanks for your suggestion.  But I would like to have a more general solution
for that.  What if I want some moving images at the background and text in
the front? 

Edith

> 
> 
> Hello back at ya,
> I believe that I can answer your first question, so I will.
> 
> Yes it is possible to overlap images, but you will have to do it yourself.
> 
> Java runs a stream of gifs like a movie and dependant on the speed of the client machine you can seperate the images duke, snow, duke, snow and so on. This probably isn't a good solution. Might look jumpy.
> 
> One right way of doing this is to make a snow "movie" like the Duke movie and overlay these two movies in a image processing package like Adobe Premiere/ Photoshop or something public domain (paint shop pro). One set of the images would have to made transparent and it would then be overlayed onto the other. 
> Now you have one set of gifs to run, which ImageLoopItem will use.
> 
> I hope this answers your question. 
> If you don't have image processing stuff, I could manage some snow or whatever for you.
> 
> -DH
> 
> 
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