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[jazzychad]

w00t!! The graph page got added to the PXC Community Websites page!

Very funny that the icon they used was from a screenshot of oliverkeers13's graph... very unsurprisingly, according to my webstats, his graph is the most looked at so far...

[myf]

It's very pretty! I do believe my "inner stats geek" is now appeased

[Agent Lex]

Speaking of updates to the PXC site... maybe the new RSS stuff has managed to break your graph thing. Because it says it's broken.

[jazzychad]

<EDIT> Well, looks like it's back up an running... that was scary... </EDIT>

[jazzychad]

Ok, so I was feeling extra creative, and now you can view the graph with different graphic options...

You can now choose to view alpha-blended bars and a gradient pattern on the background... the effects can make your graph look very mysterious... very pxc-like

Firefox correctly renders alpha-blending, while IE just turns it into a solid gradient (dumb IE...).... this is untested on other broswers... so try it out and see what happens!

p.s. I have another stat tool in the works... will probably be done over the weekend, but in the development stage now... ::laughs maniacally::

[doublecross]

Very nice - did it stop working from overuse?

I don't wish to look a gift horse in the mouth, but it doesn't *quite* convey intensity of card-solving as cards solved on the same day are displayed next to each other, rather than somehow on top of each other - but that would probably spoil the look.

[jazzychad]

Yeah.. I understand the timeline is not quite to scale... For example, all of oliverkeers' wave 4 cards were solved on one day, but you can't really tell by looking at the graph..

But, to be honest, if I made it to scale the graphs would be so wide that you would have to scroll sideways off the edge of the universe. My main goal was get as much of the graph on the screen as possible without having to scroll sideways (which is one of my pet peeves on the web). Even if I made all the bars 1 pixel it would be huge (right now they are 2px by default).

The only real "timeline" stuff in there is that for each day you go without solving a card it adds a 1 pixel spacer (which is how you see breaks between waves).

Mostly the graph is to see the curve of the accumulation of points, and how significant it is when you solve a complete set (which was another funny piece of logic I had to put in the code since the rss feed doesn't tell you anything about solving full sets!)

This is not a rant so much as a brief explanation of my reasoning, just cause I thought you all might be interested to know

Keep sending suggestions though, I'd love to hear 'em.

[UKver2.0]

I'm not sure how the colors are generated for each card, but I noticed some wern't quite right. 32 and 160 for example.

[jazzychad]

Not sure how you're getting an error... it renders those cards correctly for me for anyone I put in... however, cards 257/258/P01 will look weird because ther are no colors associated with them (in my code).. they will either look black or hollow... i should probably fix that

[Sophiecat]

I've just checked through my graph and it seems that the last card of each colour is coming out as the next colour, ie 32 as orange, 64 as yellow, 96 as green, 128 as blue, 160 as purple, 192 as black and 224 as silver. Obviously as 256 is unsolved this hasn't shown up as an error.

Perhaps it's a calculation error due to the numbers involved?

[jazzychad]

Yeah sorry, that was my fault... forgot to subtract 1 from the card number before i divided by 32...

but it's fixed now! try it out...

[Sophiecat]

Yep, that's working perfectly now.