The Making of TheBroth
March 14th, 2006 in The Making of TheBroth · By Markus WeichselbaumWelcome to TheBroth, The Global Mosaic(TM)!
In this series of articles, we’ll discuss the inner workings of TheBroth.
Yes, we’ll reveal all! Php, Mysql, Javascript, Ajax, the lot!

In creating this application, we faced interesting challenges and we’d like to share what we’ve learned with the developer community. Hopefully we’ll see many more applications like TheBroth in the future.
- The history of TheBroth
- Use of Ajax for the mosaic
- Scalability of TheBroth
- Mosaic synchronisation and z-index
- How the tiles are animated
- The tiles that make up each mosaic
- How the snapping function was implemented
- The Snapshot function - saving mosaics as images
- The Karma and Exile system
- Simple Ajax Chat for TheBroth












