Chunky

A simple program that turns images into chunks.

Under development, early stages. Not really usable as of yet.

Usage

Current state of the program lacks a sophisticated user interface, but base functionality can be used. Currently available commands:

• -s or --source <image_path> for single-image processing
• -s or --source <directory_path> for a automatic batch operation
• -h or --help to show currently available commands (always up-to-date, more so than this readme)

Currently the output only saves to <exe_dir>/<image_name>/<name>-x-y.png.

Chunky accepts two kinds of rules:

• Set width and height
• Set amount of chunks per x and y axis

You can mix and match these, for example

• Divide the image by 10 in x axis and have a height of 100px each
• Divide the image by 5 in both x and y axis
• Divide the image into equal 256pxx256px chunks

For user's sanity, Chunky can provide (if so configured) a reconstruction based on the output files written to disk as well as a variance comparison image that displays any deviance from the original in bright red.

Configuring

WIP

Todo

Immediate target

• Serialize/deserialize processing configs and global config (human-readable and easily modifiable)
• Write a command line interface that is script-friendly
• As of yet, chunky doesn't handle uneven splits well. It respects the sizes and produces an accurate output but the edge chunks will have either blank (black) pixels for the out-of-bounds remainder or it'll glitch in magnificent ways.
  • User-configured handling of uneven remainders
    • Fill with chosen color
    • Fill with 100% alpha
    • Crop the edge chunks (results in irregular sizes for the edge chunks)

Long-term target

• A simple graphical user interface
• Cleaning up, refactoring code
• Performance magic and trying to reduce its footprint