Thumbnail polish

[_SKiTZO]

Hi!

I am new here, I must say that I am amazed at the friendlyness and quality of this forum! Lots of kudos!

I joined for a particular purpose. I cannot say that I am into the adult bussiness, however I am creating my own web server software based on thttpd (Please Register or Login to view links) that will serve a dynamic thumbnail gallery as fast as possible (avoiding PHP, keeping stuff in memory etc) This might some day become a handy tool for the adult industry.

Before I get this far, there are some unsolved puzzles that I was hoping you quys might shed some light on!

First question: I have noticed that some thumbnail galleries process their thumbnail with a special kind of image processing filter that smooths out noise, and beefs up the color. What is the correct term for this, and which galleries will do this? I have googled forever trying to find any reference to this, but without knowing what it is actually called, I didnt get anywhere! I would really like to implement such an algorithm in my own gallery.

Second question: I have noticed some thumbnail galleries that use some sort of weighing algorithm so that the most popular thumbs end up at the top. It also manages to go several levels into one "niche" so that if you press the thumb with the busty woman, you will get to a nother page with alot of thumbs with busty women. What is the proper term for this, and which software might I look at that has these features?

I hope someone can help me out.


Thanks!

[Kide83]

hi and welcome to ABF i would like to help you but i can't - i don't know any answer to questions you asked

[friend4fantasy]

Welcome to ABF from a fellow newbe. I'm curious about the same thing that you, as I am adding thumbs to my site.

[ventas2talentos]

I Think I know what you are talking about, unfortunatelty the sites I have seing that they do this is with PHP/Java , when you clik on a picture the picture has an id tag which in this case you have clasified by nitch, on the next page to open up you simply do a db query per that nitch so you can give the user what he likes...

[_SKiTZO]

I have dug harder into the matter.

I have not yet managed to find any software that does this automatically (and I seriously doubt someone are actually doing this by hand).

However i think the filters used are:

median filter + increasing saturation. I have played around with different filter source code and found this to be the simple combination to get the desired effect.

Regarding the thumbnail "niche" algorithm, i think that is called a "self organizing corona map" in very technical geekish terms.

Im not 100% sure, but the AI expert at work told me his oppinion.

So... what about listing the names of thumbnail engines that dio this sort of thing? I am absolutely clueless!