Make a static image out of a visualization

Question

I want to render a visualization and make it the background graphic of my website. What would be the best visualization package for this? I'm mainly concerned with simplicity of implementation.

I want to make it look similar to this but with photo thumbnails instead of gradients.

I found two packages capable to doing the job, Protovis and D3 and there is an SVG to PNG converter. Which I think I can use with Protovis SVG output to render an image for the background. Is there any visualization package that does what I'm describing out of the box? Am I on the right/wrong track?

Answer 1

I was using Codeigniter and in this case, a good solution for me was the CI port of the JPgraph library. http://codeigniter.com/wiki/JP_Graph/revision/2206

It creates static jpg images. I'm pretty sure that it will be able to make charts similar to the screenshot. I will update the answer as needed.