A study of using transparency and blurring to fit several news stories on one screen. The image above is a small version - it's linked to a full 1280x1024 screen shot.
Colours look best when the room is dark.
The program itself is interactive - when the user clicks on a story in the background it comes forward and swaps with the currently active story. Coding was pretty straightforward. Story.hxx , the header file for the Story class.