An alternative option would

pr0gr4mm3r — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:52:50 +0000

An alternative option would be to generate pictures for every combination available and then swap out the entire image when an option is changed. That may or may not be a feasible solution depending on how may options you have.

That sounds to me, just by

mscreashuns — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:25:23 +0000

That sounds to me, just by reading your brief, like a great little Flash applet that could be created. I think it could definitely be done with plain HTML and some JavaScript, but it would take a lot of positioning and probably use of z-indexes to work through the overlaying of certain images.

A little later I might try to do a small sample in HTML just to see if I can work out how to position images on the fly like that, but it's definitely doable.