ManYue: Read multiple viewpoints and times within a collage page

A city view, close face and night tower on one page may form a collage rather than one moment and viewpoint. Record regions before interpreting their links, distinct from identifying framed inset boundaries. Use ManYue for whole-page and detail inspection, not automatic segmentation, 3D reconstruction or decided montage meaning.

Select a composition without one simple panel boundary

Record work, edition, chapter and page, selecting regions of differing scale or scene while retaining the whole composition. Invent a morning-labelled street above, a close face lower left and a night-labelled tower lower right. Record positions and labels without assuming face and street share a location. A clearly framed three-panel page can be a separate control, not equivalent to blended regions. Cropped pieces cannot establish the original page’s layout.

Number regions without inventing authorial panels

Use external region IDs upper A, lower-left B and lower-right C, with landmarks and page directions. Identify these as personal references, not original panel IDs. Do not add borders and call them discovered reading order. Record object, scale, background and wording for each, with cross-region objects and uncertain overlaps retained. IDs assist retrieval without proving independent regions or assuming automatically saved region coordinates.

Check viewpoint and object scale by region

Describe supported regional views: distant street, close face, low-angle tower. A large face over small buildings may be composition, not a giant, though fantasy context could establish otherwise. Compare physical scale only with a shared space and reference; do not divide face width by tower width across these regions. A symbolic silhouette needs an illustrative label, not invented focal length or camera coordinates. Separate compositional size from story-world size.

Do not extend regional time labels to the whole page

Bind morning to A and night to C, not the whole page, and do not assume all occur on one day. B’s time remains unknown without evidence, not supplied from colour similarity. Record any wording spanning regions with supporting placement or narration. The sample establishes two labels, not A/B/C chronology. A compressed-day interpretation remains interpretation. Several times juxtaposed do not automatically contradict the story; the page may summarize rather than depict one event.

Trace textual and visual links

Trace captions, dialogue and leaders to regions, distinguishing summary from local speech. A road, band or gaze may guide reading without physically connecting depicted spaces. Separate visual continuity from story-space linkage: a page-spanning band does not establish character travel along it. Preserve spanning wording without forcing exclusive ownership. Return from zoom to the whole page so a global title is not mistaken for a local caption.

Compare reading-order candidates from evidence

Try A/B/C and A/C/B, recording textual connections and effects without making personal habit the only order. Preserve explicit arrows, numbers or linguistic constraints. Without them, juxtaposition or revisiting may be valid rather than a forced three-panel sequence. The sample’s two time labels do not place B chronologically. Compare in notes without rearranging the original and attributing your copy to the author. Explain evidence for the chosen order and any surviving alternative.

Check cropping, boundaries and layers when confused

Restore the whole page for omitted collage headings, separators or regional time words when a supposed single space does not fit. Generated additions cannot establish cropped original layout; adjust viewing rather than the source. Overlapping faces do not automatically establish transformation. Preserve unknown regional relationships instead of inventing a common horizon. Report concrete page regions, not a demand for automatic shot ordering.

Rebuild the region record from the whole page after returning

Leave the reader and return to the whole page, identifying A/B/C before viewpoints, time labels and text scope. Do not generalize straight from a previously zoomed detail. Retain region IDs, objects, spatial conditions, time evidence, orders and uncertainty separately from the original. Share necessary authorized descriptions with personal IDs identified. Completion explains limits on one-space/one-time assumptions while retaining supported connections, not abandoning verification because the page is a collage.

Related guides and sources

Referencing a panel in ManYue: create a verifiable address within a page; ManYue inset-panel reading: check boundaries and viewpoint.

Checked on November 9, 2026: Apple public version information lists ManYue 2.0.4, requiring iOS / iPadOS 15.0 or later. Feature scope follows the official App Store description and the installed version. This article provides reading and checking methods you can perform; it does not claim step-by-step physical-device or private-server testing. Manual records, external tools and actually visible controls are identified separately, and personal analysis or code observations are not presented as verified automatic capabilities.

For the concept or external-tool scope, see Open University: viewpoint and narrative glossary. Samples, checking sequences and observation records here are original reading exercises. External references establish no new automatic recognition, editing or inference in the app and do not replace checking the actual file or passage.