Wednesday
May 17 2006
Deck Viewer for Pro Tour coverage
The Pro Tour video coverage is nice, although there is one thing that has been nagging at me for a while: The cards are hard to recognize. While this was ok, when I still recognized the cards by image, it was rather difficult with the Pro Tour Prague coverage, since I didn't know most Dissension cards and am still struggling with some Guildpact cards. Therefore I created a Deck Viewer that allows a visual representation of Magic decks as shown on www.wizards.com. Just enter an URL (I suggest http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/ptpra06/t8decks) with deck lists and it will show a visual overview of the deck (currently without sideboard).
At the moment the page looks rather ugly and has several shortcomings. This is mostly because this is more of a proof of concept (one hour hack) and an idea I would like to pitch to Wizards. Nevertheless I would like to hear about bugs or improvement suggestions.
Comments
supernice
by EvilBernd
Friday, 2006-05-19 11:46
Kann ich die Idee entleihen??
:-)
by jroger
Friday, 2006-05-19 13:01
Klar, kannst auch den Code haben, wenn du willst. Ich habe noch Hoffnung, dass WotC sich die Idee evtl. entleiht. Hab sie jedenfalls angeschrieben ...
Code
by EvilBernd
Saturday, 2006-05-20 06:18
Ich kann nur PHP und denke mal, du fährst mit anderem Kraftstoff. Was mich interessiert wäre die Methode, mit der aus Kartennamen Wizards-freundliche Kartennamen gemacht werden, um deren Bilder zu nutzen.
by jroger
Saturday, 2006-05-20 23:11
Hier ist die Pythonmethod. Im Wesentlichen ein paar Buchstabenersetzungen, alles in Kleinbuchstaben wandeln, URL vornedran, fertig.
def _card_name_to_image_url(self, cardname):
"""
Return the URL for the image of the supplied card.
"""
cardname = cardname.lower()
cardname = cardname.replace(" ", "_")
cardname = cardname.replace("-", "_")
cardname = cardname.replace(",", "")
cardname = cardname.replace("'", "")
cardname = cardname.replace("/", "__")
return "http://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/" + cardname
+ ".jpg"
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