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Hi there,

I am trying to implement a function similar to the 'magic wand' tool in
Photoshop to find the boundary of similar-graylevel area starting from a
point within it. So basically I want to start from a pixel in the region
which has a very similar gray level not varying by more than 5 gray values
and find its ends in all directions.

Could you please tell me where I can find such an implementation or an
efficient algorithm to do the same.

Thanks a ton,
Soumyadip.
Jan 21 '06 #1
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"Soumyadip Rakshit" <so************ **@gmx.net> wrote in message
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Hi there,

I am trying to implement a function similar to the 'magic wand' tool
in Photoshop to find the boundary of similar-graylevel area starting
from a point within it. So basically I want to start from a pixel in
the region which has a very similar gray level not varying by more
than 5 gray values and find its ends in all directions.

Could you please tell me where I can find such an implementation or an
efficient algorithm to do the same.

Thanks a ton,
Soumyadip.

Try asking in comp.graphics.a lgorithms

--
John Carson
Jan 21 '06 #2
Thanks .. I'll do that :)!

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"Soumyadip Rakshit" <so************ **@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:It******** @bath.ac.uk
Hi there,

I am trying to implement a function similar to the 'magic wand' tool
in Photoshop to find the boundary of similar-graylevel area starting
from a point within it. So basically I want to start from a pixel in
the region which has a very similar gray level not varying by more
than 5 gray values and find its ends in all directions.

Could you please tell me where I can find such an implementation or an
efficient algorithm to do the same.

Thanks a ton,
Soumyadip.

Try asking in comp.graphics.a lgorithms

--
John Carson

Jan 23 '06 #3

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