Dear Monks, I know incredibly little about graphics, so I wondered if you wise folk could help me with a design question. I'm making a cgi page that I want to display a 2-D grid of little circles of different colors (it sounds dumb, but there's lots of math in it!) with text labels on the top and on the left side of the grid. My question is, should I write all the circles as separate files (there are 100-500 of these circles) or should I clump them together into one large jpeg or png? And is there a way in GD.pm for me to print them all directly to the browser without file writing? I suspect that would be the easiest thing. I'm sorry if this is unclear. I would, as always, appreciate any help I can get. Thanks, Evan

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