OOF2: The Manual

Name

Color (ColorGrouper) — Group pixels by examining RGB distributions.

Synopsis

ColorGrouper(image,sigma0)

Details

  • Base class: PixelGrouper
  • Parameters:

    image
    Base groups on the colors in this image Type: The path to an existing Image object.
    sigma0
    Standard deviation in RGB values to assume for initial distributions Type: A real number.

Description

This is used by OOF.PixelGroup.AutoGroup to automatically create PixelGroups based on pixel color. Given two pixels, it computes the distance between them by treating their RGB values as coordinates in a 3D Euclidean space.

sigma0 is the initial standard deviation assigned to a group containing a single pixel. It sets the scale for how far apart colors have to be in RGB space in order to considered to be significantly different. Using a small sigma0 will lead to many small pixel groups with little color variation within each group. Using a large sigma0 will lead to fewer pixel groups with more variation within each group.