about the technology

An increasing number of tasks in application programming and web design requires creating and manipulating graphics. Perl is a powerful and flexible language that is not commonly associated with graphics programming. The speed of developing in Perl plus the large number of freely available Perl graphics modules, make it an excellent option for the rapid development of graphics applications.

what's inside

• How to create charts and graphs
• Serving graphics content to the WWW with CGI
• How to modularize your graphics code, and re-use it
• Code to manipulate image pixels (and how to do it fast)
• How to work with text in graphics
• A complete reference for Image::Magick
• Examples you can use and build on:
  • Adding watermarks to your images
  • Creating thumbnails
  • Dynamic web pages with charts
  • Building your own convolution filters
  • A web photo album
  • 3D animation with OpenGL and Renderman

about the author

A developer, architect and systems administrator, Martien Verbruggen is the author of the GD::Graph charting module and the GD::Text modules. He a regular contributor to the Perl Usenet groups. Martien lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and daughter.