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Re:The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery by joebo on Monday August 12, 2013 @12:17PM (#6199982)
This works well when the photos are not time sequential. I find it harder to follow the story when the photos are ordered by the partition fit instead of the time taken. It would be neat to optionally incorporate time into the algorithm.
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Re:The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery by jtreitz on Monday August 12, 2013 @12:33PM (#6200095)
We do not change the order of the photos, we just try to find a good set of breaking points inside that order.

Actually, Chromatic tries to read the EXIF "DateTimeOriginal" information to sort the photos and falls back to the "LastModifiedDate" if the former doesn't work.

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Re:The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery by ionforce on Monday August 12, 2013 @12:29PM (#6200055)
Well it would have to be some sort of flexible time constraint. Otherwise the photos are already ordered.
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