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Comparing
the Java Lake Applets
Reflections
on the Dorian GrayII, the David Griffiths lake and the AnLake
Java applets
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start with this image, and see what each of the lake
applets can do to it, in turn. |
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image is produced using the Dorian GrayII applet. The
original picture was split into the trees and the lake
reflection (water). The trees were used as the image
before the applet and the water reflection, inverted,
was used in the applet. The result is a smooth lake
with a soft reflection, truer to the original image.
For some reason,
if you look closely, there's a glitch at the left
hand side where the water meets the shore. Again we
could not get rid of this.
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This
image is produced using the David Griffiths lake applet.
The original image was cropped at the shoreline and
the trees section was used in the applet. As you can
see, the result is a very glassy reflection. We did
try to reflect the inverted lake reflection as in the
example on the left, and then overlay the image with
a transparent gif of the trees. No matter how much we
manipulated the image, we just could not get it to work.
Anyone got any ideas on this? See
tutorial on this applet |
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example uses the AnLake applet by Fabio Ciucci. Like
the David Griffiths applet, it produces a very glassy
lake surface. We were able to fine tune the waves, but,
The size of the applet is fixed at either twice or one
and one half times the size of the original image. For
this reason, this image is slightly smaller than the
other two. Had we wanted a swan swimming about on the
lake, however, this is the only applet that could do
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Well, it's your choice - which one do you prefer? Our choice
is The Dorian GrayII version.
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