On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:21:09AM -0700,
or*****@gmail.c om wrote:
hi
I want understanding pictures colorfull
for examle colorfull or black-white
image.google.co m there are understand it.
i'm not sure if i understand your question. assuming you want to decide if
an image has only grayscale or multi-channel color data you could use
the python image library
http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
example:
>>from PIL import Image
im = Image.open("gra y.png")
im.mode
'L'
>>im = Image.open("col or.jpeg")
im.mode
'RGB'
>>im = Image.open("ano ther_gray.jpeg" )
im.mode
'L'
but this doesn't tell you if color.jpeg really uses non-gray colors...
if you really want to do an expensive search, if an RGB image contains
only gray colors, you could do something like that:
>>im = Image.open("col or.jpeg")
im.mode
'RGB'
im.getcolors() returns a list like [(color_count, (red, green, blue)),
....]
to only select the channel values one could do:
>>colors = set(lambda cv: cv[1], im.getcolors())
lets define a gray color as a color with all three color channels having the
same value like (30, 30, 30). to detect if a sequence has only equal items
one could create a set of this sequence and see how many items the set
contains afterwards:
>>set((30, 30, 30))
set([30])
>len(set((30, 30, 30)))
1
to check if an rgb image uses only grayscale colors we can do
>>map(lambda cv: len(set(cv[1])), im.getcolors())
[1, 1, 1, 1, ....
the returned list contain only 1's if there are only gray values in the
image.
to easyly show this we can again create a set from this list:
>>set(map(lambd a cv: len(set(cv[1])), im.getcolors()) )
set([1])
so "im" is an grayscale image even though it has three channels.
this method does not always work:
- with indexed image data,
- with another definition/understanding of "gray" pixels
but maybe PIL can help you anyway!
flo.
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Florian Schmidt //
www.fastflo.de 
