From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2006-06-02T11:23:25+09:00
Subject: Re: This is brain dead, but is it stupid?

Jeff Pritchard wrote:
> So I says to myself, you could make a decent bargraph just by drawing a 
> simple little "color blob image" in different sizes.  I tried it, and it 
> looks just fine to me.  I'm thinking about cooking up a simple ruby lib 
> that will draw a bargraph with x and y labels on it using this 
> technique.  Here's a simple manual example:
> http://www.mylittlecorneroftheinternet.com/BrainDeadBarGraph.html
> 
> What do you think, this is clearly brain dead, but is it stupid too?

No, it's clearly very handy, and forum polls have been doing it this way
for a long time. 'Twould be a nice library, I think.

You can easily do horizontal graphs, too, this way.

A possible extra feature would be "caps" that don't get stretched that
are added to top and bottom or left and right of each bar.

Cheers,
Dave