Creating an animated banner containing comparison of all Swiss operators for calls to Swiss mobiles
2009-01-30
Switzernet
There are 60 operators and subscriptions on comparis.ch. A graphical comparison of 60 operators is not possible within a banner of size 468x60 pixels². We sort the operators in descending order. Then we divide them in 8 interleaved groups. Each group forms a chart which can be fit in the banner space. The set of charts then form a GIF animation sequence:
The same technique is applied for a banner size 300x250 pixels2.
The following version of the 300x250 banner is created by copy-pasting the charts from the Excel application directly to paint application (without MS Word). There are 12 groups each containing 6 histograms.
Files for 468x60 banner:
The Excel file containing the data and the chart for 468x60 banner [xls]
Imagemagick commands [htm]
The GIF file [gif]
Files for 300x250 banner (v1):
The Excel file containing the chart for 300x250 banner [xls]
The Doc file containing various drafts for 300x250 banner [doc]
The Doc file containing the chart samples of 300x250 banner [doc]
The BMP files [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8].
Imagemagick commands [htm]
The GIF file [gif]
Files for 300x250 banner (v2):
The Excel file containing the chart for 300x250 banner [xls]
Log file of imagemagick commands [log.txt] (no doc files are used, the charts are copy-pasted directly into Excel)
The GIF file [gif]
Samples of 2009-02-21 (v3, v4, and v5)
The sample of 2009-02-22 (v6)
[gif], [xls], [sh.txt], [todo]
The sample of 2009-02-25 (v7)
References:
Comparis.ch [go]
Imagemagick.org [go]
Rates to Swiss mobiles [go]
090203-free-calls-120x60 [go]
090220-mobiles-gif-comparis.ch [1], [2] (ths doc)
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