Simon Willison’s Weblog

Google Chart API (via) Really neat charting API from Google—simply encode your chart data and configuration options in to a URL and Google will serve up a nicely rendered PNG. No API key required. It’s like a documented version of the Google Groups rounded corners API. 6th December 2007, 5:37 pm

VectorMagic. Neat online tool (with a Flex frontend) for tracing bitmap images in to vectors, based on research at the Stanford AI lab. 28th October 2007, 11:46 am

CSS Transforms. WebKit can now do transforms (scale, rotate, translate and skew) in CSS via a new -webkit-transform property. Transforms behave like position relative in that they don’t affect the layout of the page. You can also provide a full affine transform matrix as a shortcut. 26th October 2007, 9:45 pm

Idea: The Histogram as the Image. How to hide the New York City skyline in the histogram of an image. 30th September 2007, 9:34 pm