JAVA programmer? (and Win-DomMap, and some GIMP)

[Gandalf Parker]

This site has a blur class, and a map render program. It would be great if someone could look at it and see if it will fill our needs to map-making

http://www.jhlabs.com/index.html

Can the blur run stand-alone?
Batch mode?
on linux?
process targa files?
be told to not blur white pixels (255/255/255)?
be told 3 colors to avoid?

[ February 24, 2004, 19:33: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[BugRoger]

This filter won't run on itself. It's a class that can be used in conjunction with the Java Advanced Imaging API (JAI). It would be quite easy to implement a filter that does the thing's you mentioned though. But it only works with BMP, GIF (decoder only), FlashPix (decoder only), JPEG, PNG, PNM, TIFF, and WBMP.

For running java programs you need to have at least the JRE installed. Set some enviroment variables and you can (almost) use it like a native executable.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by BugRoger:
This filter won't run on itself. It's a class that can be used in conjunction with the Java Advanced Imaging API (JAI). It would be quite easy to implement a filter that does the thing's you mentioned though. But it only works with BMP, GIF (decoder only), FlashPix (decoder only), JPEG, PNG, PNM, TIFF, and WBMP.

For running java programs you need to have at least the JRE installed. Set some enviroment variables and you can (almost) use it like a native executable.

This sounds like more reading and experimenting into Java than I wanted to do. I would be running on a linux so raw java code should run fine. Could I ask you to whip up something that works on PNM files to blur the entire image except for 255/255/255 44/135/195 195/87/44 ?

Examples of the maps Im working with are at
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion...s2/RandomMaps/

And you can email me as gandalf@ that site or community.net (or a dozen others)

[BugRoger]

Before I spend my day working on Java (again) may I suggest something else? Try ImageMagick. It might be just what you are looking for. If you're running Linux it's probably already installed... I'm not very experienced in using it but it is *very* powerful. I use it for on the fly generation of thumbnails on my webserver.

I browsed the Online docu and there is a blur filter and an option to select a specific set of colors. I haven't tried it but it seems like this should work.

[Joe Bedurndurn]

If you can point me to a site that explains the PNM format and a sample image, I can give it a go.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Joe Bedurndurn:
If you can point me to a site that explains the PNM format and a sample image, I can give it a go.

Targa is what the game uses (.tga format). The PNM is just a passthru on its way to JPG (I couldnt find a tga2jpg converter so I go tga2ppg then ppg2jpg)

The JPG exists for web viewing and so that WebMagick can make thumbnails (which does use imagemagick to do it). I did see that ImageMagick had a blur switch but didnt see where I could hold 255/255/255 white aside. Maybe something where I could copy the white pixels to another file then merge it back after the blur?

Of course these are also all work-arounds for the old DomMap program which is in C source code if anyone is interested.

[ January 31, 2004, 17:22: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]