A while back I made a CD cover for debian 2.2rc1. It was one of my first artsy sort of things and I was happy with it. I even shared it with the debian people and got put in the FAQ. Unfortunately I was too busy to keep updating the text as releases came out and eventually it was booted.
I was wandering back through old stuff and noticed those covers and thought, "hmm..., it is just some image compositing with some blending... I bet I could to that in svg and let people make the text whatever they want." So, this page is me figuring out how to do that...
I need this image to fade at the border and to do that I will need to mask with a radial gradient. Such a svg would look something like this:
I used Ed Mackey's Linux fox (which I can no longer find a good link for). I thought it would work better in a vector format so I took a bit and vectorized it using Illustrator.
The swirl is just a converted version of the open use logos.
Likewise the lettering is just broken out from an open use logo.
The process now is just compositing and adding some labels. SVG makes importing and manipulating images pretty easy. There is a basic template which uses ecmascript to insert labels.
The parameters can be specified using a form or can be inserted in the URL manually. All of the work is done by a script in the image and there is no server generated content.
The parameters used by the program are:
Here is an example of the image with the query string ?discname=test%20disc%20name&release=woody%201.2%20rc2&discid=1
