MAS964 Problem Set 3
Robert Poor
26 Feb 1997


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In my approach to the problem, I chose to place all the news articles directly atop one another to see how much information could be layered in one place. The answer: not much. You can read the front layer without much trouble, but subsequent layers can do little more than announce their presence -- it's difficult to make out any content.

The NEXTSTEP source code can be found here. Some features of this program include:

  • Generalized 2D convolution filter for TIFF files (in filt2d.c).
  • Code to "lighten" a TIFF image by making it more transparent (in BlurredImage.m).
  • A plausable idea that didn't work very well: causing a background image to "swim" slowly (see BlurrableImage.m). Two problems: the images don't move smoothly enough to give a sense of swimming, and the images are made so faint and blurry that you don't really notice them swimming at all.

Regardless of the outcome, I'm glad to have had the chance to test some of these ideas.