I'm trying to create a "mini-map." It's a circle filled with markers, and I want the border of the circle to glow in places to indicate to the user to indicate that more markers are beyond the minimap in a given direction.
I can give the circle a 'glowing' blue border by drawing, below it, a blue circle with a slightly larger radius. I think that I can make this blue border brighter in some places than others by giving its CALayer a mask. (I've tried giving it a gradient mask, and it works.)
Assuming that I can make the proper calculations to determine how bright a given pixel should be (given the position of markers beyond the minimap's viewport), how do I set the individual pixels of a CALayer? Or is there an easier way to accomplish what I'm looking for besides making a complicated alpha value calculation for each pixel in the circle?
Thanks.