enkiv2
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7 years ago First step is a filter that makes photos and other images look like sketches: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2017/sketchify.py
If colorize is set to False, you get a greyscale shaded version (like soft pencils were used to shade an ink sketch). If it's set to True, you get something that looks like watercolor has been used to color in an ink sketch. If you set sketchOnly to true, you drop all the shading.
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kamn
Since it's been a day since NaNoGenMo started & I've already done three, I feel pretty confident about doing something more involved.
Back in 2014, Generative Detective (https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014/issues/70) showed that comics were possible (and that people are a little more forgiving of what looks like a moody experimental comic than they might be of a novel).
Earlier this summer, I worked on a bot that does a substantial amount of the same kind of processing that Generative Detective needed to do, and in the process demonstrated that the juxtaposition of text and image was often striking even when the image was completely random, so long as both the text and the image were striking on their own: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/barbara_holzer.py
So, I plan to take advantage of my phrase-chain code (https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/tree/master/phrasechain) to generate sentences of text from some input, then superimpose that text on paneled pages, where the panels are random images that I downloaded modified to look like line drawings.
Much as modern comics often don't limit the text to within a panel, I also won't bother: I figure alignment by itself will do enough, for short phrases. I'll select some input corpus that's heavy on short sentences. (I've got some noir around, and some vonnegut.)
Figuring out how to do panel layout with arbitrary images will be the big challenge. I'm thinking I'll start by aligning along the top or left edge, depending upon the panel's aspect ratio in comparison to that of the page, then do the same with the leftover space recursively until less than 1/4th of the page's space is empty, scaling images down so that they fit and adding a border.
Another possible stylistic flourish (which is pretty common in manga): have the first few pages be in color (ex., by posterizing the existing full-color images to four colors) and the rest be in black and white.
PIL has edge detection, so I think that (like Generated Detective) I'll apply that edge detection to the original image and either overlay or replace the image with it.