Algorithm Arrange images on screen

Question

I need to start building a image application and my customer wants to arrange the picutes in the screen like google tv does, as well as everpix. I have been looking for it for a

Answer 1

In css you can arrange images from horizontal to vertical. A good example is the Google image search. There is the Jquery Masonry plugin to arrange from vertical to horizontal and it has some nice animation. In your example you want to have rather a rectangle arrangement I suggest a treemap algorithm where you can also rotate the rectangle in 90°.