{"id":99,"date":"2007-06-03T23:45:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T07:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/grafarc\/blog2\/?p=99"},"modified":"2007-06-03T23:45:38","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T07:45:38","slug":"new-layers-and-the-power-of-scripting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/2007\/06\/new-layers-and-the-power-of-scripting\/","title":{"rendered":"new layers and the power of scripting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/grafarc\/flash\/view.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=0 alt=\"cove_eastZ_2007_02_03.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/grafarc\/blog\/images\/cove_eastZ_2007_02_03.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><br \/><font size=-2><i>Shown here: cove\/eastZ 61, February 3, 2007.  Piece by OPTIMIST, throwies by TWICK.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Great news on the production line: I&#8217;ve learned how to use javascript to control Photoshop, so I can finally automate some of the really repetitive parts of the grafarc process.  What this means in the short term is faster, easier updates to the site!  Today: 13 new layers on cove\/eastZ, and 15 new layers on ghost\/house.<\/p>\n<p>As for the long term: I&#8217;ve also started using javascript to do some new and different things with the source material.  I don&#8217;t want to say too much about it just yet, but it&#8217;s going to be very cool.  More info as things develop&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the increasing number of layers on certain walls (especially cove\/eastZ with 61 of them) is continuing to call attention to new flaws in our Flash interface.  This time, the bottleneck is the fact that before you see a single image, your browser has to download a set of outlines and solid shapes, one pair for each layer.  It was never a problem initially, because the files are all very small&#8211; but it&#8217;s a problem now, because there are so many of them!  We&#8217;ll need to change a few things to get around that, but I&#8217;m pretty sure of how to do it.  Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shown here: cove\/eastZ 61, February 3, 2007. Piece by OPTIMIST, throwies by TWICK. Great news on the production line: I&#8217;ve learned how to use javascript to control Photoshop, so I can finally automate some of the really repetitive parts of the grafarc process. What this means in the short term is faster, easier updates to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}