Wave An Image With Imagick

[Byron]

Wave an image with just a few lines of code using the Imagick Class (only on Stevie). This is the original image:

 

http://byrondallas.heliohost.org/php/imagick/landscape.jpeg

 

Here is the waved image:

 

http://byrondallas.heliohost.org/php/imagick/wave.php

 

Here's the code. You can use any color for the backgroundcolor. If you want the background to be transparent (like my example) you'll need to set the format to gif or png.

 

<?php
$image = new imagick("landscape.jpeg");
$image->setimagebackgroundcolor("transparent");
$image->waveImage(20, 240);
$image->setImageFormat('png');
# uncomment line below to write image to directory
# $image->writeimage("landscape_wav.png");
header("Content-Type: image/png");
echo $image;
?>

 

You can play around with the amplitude and length, this line: $image->waveImage(20, 240); to get different wave patterns.