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Now, I've been a MangaHelpers fan for almost a year now. I've been the ultimate lurker, I have a total of 1 post and I've been logged in for as of this particular moment for 16 hours and 41 minutes. I've been wishing to be able to help scanlate or do something to give back to the MH community I've been so willing to leech off of, but alas cleaning is not for all of us. I am pretty much the least artistically inclined person I've ever encountered so anything I could bring to the table was already brought and expanded upon tenfold.
About two weeks ago I came up with the way to give back. What about creating a graphics program tailored specifically for cleaning manga. I have a strong background in programming, specifically java. So I started reading, I read through Shinwei's Cleaners' Compendium (for those who haven't seen it and somehow ended up here, check it out, it really is incredible: http://mangahelpers.com/forum/index.php?topic=2433.0) and started to think of ways to make a computer think the way he was writing about, and then I started reading through Java documentation and seeing what classes they had to manipulate images and the like. And I found that my idea was, albeit quite difficult, very much possible. So I started reading some more and writing code I bought a book, all about computer graphics in java and it turned out to be a lifesaver.
Now, at this point the program is far from being done at all, but it is able to do the first step, leveling, in the cleaners' compendium automatically as well as allows you to manually level to your specification, and I wanted to offer it up to the community. What would you like to see in this program, as it is in early stages of development, are there things you think are possible to be done but with your current tools it just doesn't work, or require a lot of manual redrawing.
At this point, the program can quite simply only open up zip files of jpg, folders of jpgs, pngs, or gifs, or zip archives of jpgs, pngs, or gifs.
EDIT: Updated version (As of 1/27/08)
SS: http://www.sendspace.com/file/nfjsh0
RS: http://rapidshare.com/files/87107033/MangaCleaningProject.jar.html
As of right now, I'm distributing it as a jar file. For those who don't know, a JAR file is basically a java executable. The reason I put it like this is because you can open and run this on any computer which has Java installed, not dependent on operating system. If for some reason your system is unable to run this, go here https://sdlc6c.sun.com/ECom/EComActionServlet;jsessionid=8A7B73113C30E8A43D87CEB03262D83E to download the newest version of the JRE. Also, as this uses some of the newer features of java, if you're getting strange error messages, go there to download the newest version.
I know by posting this I'm opening up myself to a wide variety of criticism like "this program sucks, it doesn't do anything." Let me say beforehand, I know. The reason I'm even offering it up at all is to get a feel for what I'm trying to create and post constructive criticism as well as any personal preferences of what they'd like to see.
Right now, I already have an idea on how to do steps 2-4 in the compendium, and I'll post updates if there is any interest at all. I'm going to continue to do this, because I think there is a potential in using this to either produce a very fast, higher quality scan on a LQ Raw, or on a HQ raw being able to produce a HQ Edited Manga much faster.
Oh yeah, and finally if you're going to look this, I would suggest just downloading a zipped raw and feeding it to the program and seeing what it spits out.
About two weeks ago I came up with the way to give back. What about creating a graphics program tailored specifically for cleaning manga. I have a strong background in programming, specifically java. So I started reading, I read through Shinwei's Cleaners' Compendium (for those who haven't seen it and somehow ended up here, check it out, it really is incredible: http://mangahelpers.com/forum/index.php?topic=2433.0) and started to think of ways to make a computer think the way he was writing about, and then I started reading through Java documentation and seeing what classes they had to manipulate images and the like. And I found that my idea was, albeit quite difficult, very much possible. So I started reading some more and writing code I bought a book, all about computer graphics in java and it turned out to be a lifesaver.
Now, at this point the program is far from being done at all, but it is able to do the first step, leveling, in the cleaners' compendium automatically as well as allows you to manually level to your specification, and I wanted to offer it up to the community. What would you like to see in this program, as it is in early stages of development, are there things you think are possible to be done but with your current tools it just doesn't work, or require a lot of manual redrawing.
At this point, the program can quite simply only open up zip files of jpg, folders of jpgs, pngs, or gifs, or zip archives of jpgs, pngs, or gifs.
EDIT: Updated version (As of 1/27/08)
SS: http://www.sendspace.com/file/nfjsh0
RS: http://rapidshare.com/files/87107033/MangaCleaningProject.jar.html
As of right now, I'm distributing it as a jar file. For those who don't know, a JAR file is basically a java executable. The reason I put it like this is because you can open and run this on any computer which has Java installed, not dependent on operating system. If for some reason your system is unable to run this, go here https://sdlc6c.sun.com/ECom/EComActionServlet;jsessionid=8A7B73113C30E8A43D87CEB03262D83E to download the newest version of the JRE. Also, as this uses some of the newer features of java, if you're getting strange error messages, go there to download the newest version.
I know by posting this I'm opening up myself to a wide variety of criticism like "this program sucks, it doesn't do anything." Let me say beforehand, I know. The reason I'm even offering it up at all is to get a feel for what I'm trying to create and post constructive criticism as well as any personal preferences of what they'd like to see.
Right now, I already have an idea on how to do steps 2-4 in the compendium, and I'll post updates if there is any interest at all. I'm going to continue to do this, because I think there is a potential in using this to either produce a very fast, higher quality scan on a LQ Raw, or on a HQ raw being able to produce a HQ Edited Manga much faster.
Oh yeah, and finally if you're going to look this, I would suggest just downloading a zipped raw and feeding it to the program and seeing what it spits out.
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