Create a pure-CSS version of any image

GenBoxShadow.php

// Do whatever you'd like with the script! Show it off, mod it up, post it places, or whatever. :)
// (If you do, I wouldn't mind a Twitter shoutout at @_slinehan when appropriate!)

$imageURL = "URL HERE";
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg($imageURL);

$width = imagesx($image);
$height = imagesy($image);

// First, let's resize the image to something manageable while maintaining aspect ratio.
if($height >= $width) {
	$nheight = 250;
	$nwidth = 250 * ($width/$height);
} else {
	$nwidth = 250;
	$nheight = 250 * ($height/$width);
}

$thumb = imagecreatetruecolor($nwidth, $nheight);
imagecopyresampled($thumb, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $nwidth, $nheight, $width, $height);


// Now we just loop through all of the pixel data
// (We are going to throw out half the data for a bit of a speed boost.
$x = $nwidth-1;
$y = $nheight-1;
for($i = 0; $i < $x; $i++) {
	for($j = 0; $j < $y; $j++) {
                // Grab the color at the pixel
		$at = imagecolorat($thumb, $i, $j);
		$hex = getHex((0xFF & ($at >> 0x10)),(0xFF & ($at >> 0x8)),(0xFF & ($at)));
		$del = ($i == $x ? ";":",");
                // Print out the line of CSS
                // We are going to output at 2x size, so 500px
                $px = $i*2; $py = $j*2;
		echo $px."px ".$py."px 0px 2px ".$hex.",<br/>";
	}
}
imagedestroy($thumb);

function getHex($r, $g, $b)
{
    $r = dechex($r<0?0:($r>255?255:$r));
    $g = dechex($g<0?0:($g>255?255:$g));
    $b = dechex($b<0?0:($b>255?255:$b));
    $color = (strlen($r) < 2?'0':'').$r;
    $color .= (strlen($g) < 2?'0':'').$g;
    $color .= (strlen($b) < 2?'0':'').$b;
    return '#'.$color;
}