Hi gthumber(s)! I have ideas that might excite.
The first I could implement myself, if handed a roadmap, half a
pretzel, and a kick in the pants, unless it's already there and
I missed it: as a download-from-camera option, allow setting a
root dir for each camera, with a sub option for the prog to copy
the camera layout (dirs 100, 200, 300..) or create folders by
date-shot for the pics. I'm still going through Macos for this
feature.
The second idea is to add pairing capabilities, the basics of
which (e.g. sizing to match connecting edge, and criss-cross
flips) can be inspired by / copied from my _javascript_:
http://phobrain.com/pr/home/mypairs.html
A third idea I can contribute Java code for, if anyone wants to
port it: create color histograms for photos, and search your
photos using an example. E.g. I point the app at the top folder
for all my pics, and if I have a pair like this:
http://phobrain.com/pr/home/gallery/pair_stairs_close_far.jpg
I can dump it in, and usually the two individual photos will be
in the top few matches. It also could sort photos usefully. Size
usually has no effect, and the search is fast.
Finally, does anyone know Picture Window, once the go-to over
Photoshop for fine-art photographers who wanted to use Windows?
The author has retired and gives it away for free. If he'd
contribute code and anyone wanted to integrate it, gthumb might
leapfrog gimp even; it has full-on layers etc, and I find the UI
much more intuitive than gimp, fwiw. I have bumped shells with
the author over histogram indexing or similar, so could ask if
anyone wanted to look at the code and felt shy. If you have
Windows, try the color autocorrect on photos of clouds for
interesting detail maximization through color balance. It fails
miserably in some cases, in others it's like seeing extra
wavelengths through the eyes of another species:
http://www.dl-c.com/site/downloads/pwp-apps.php
Post-finally, I bet the author has all kinds of examples for
testing his code that could be used as a starting point to train
uglily-simple neural nets for some really powerful pushbutton
editing moves, plus I'd like nets to detect angle of rotation to
align verticals or horizontals in the photo - the angle
correction would be fed to the normal rotation code. If anyone
wants to hear more ideas, ink your quill and I'll spill, and I
can maybe do some stuff too. I think the neural net stuff for
this purpose is pretty simple; here's what a couple of weeks'
startup got me right away for my app, just using histograms:
http://phobrain.com/pr/home/siagal.html
Background/qualifications:
Here's my 1st prog, written in Pascal in the 1980's for the new
vt100 screens that replaced the punch card machines at school,
about 3 years before usenet and maybe 10 before the web. Note
the vibe that virtually no one had even seen a computer back
then. Spreadsheets on Apple ]['s were the cutting edge, and I
learned COBOL too, and still haven't received my gold watch.
http://phobrain.com/pr/home/schedulaid.html
And here's what I'm working on now: an AI to reprogram humanity
to metamorphose to sustainability by creating an individual
language to reason with each person, using pairs of photos as
vectors/syllables in an infinite-dimensional,
edging-you-toward-godlike mind space. If gthumb gets a pair
facility, I could contribute nets from it to propose interesting
matches, as a narrow sliver leading quickly to world domination
or some home-delivered food. :-)
http://phobrain.com/pr/home/view.html
Thanks,
Bill
