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Finding millions of colors that does or does not exist - G'MIC QT Tutorial


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How to find millions of colors that does not or does not exist with the usage of Color Existence Distribution - [RGB8] G'MIC-QT filter.

Note - Useful for applications that requires you to find non-existent colors. This isn't really a tutorial for creativity, but more so for image-analysis for anyone that needs this.

 

For existing colors, you may want to type in colormap 0 in code filters found in Various section of G'MIC QT unless you'd like to see distribution of existing colors in a way that's easier to understand.

 

Prerequisites

1. Paint.NET 4.2.x

2. G'MIC QT 2.7.2

 

Warning

The Color Existence Distribution Filter does not take into account of Alpha Channel. It would require users to create a image on 65,536 x 65,536 and as far as I know, that's going to be CPU intensive. So, I will not make it take into account of Alpha Channel.

 

Tutorial Steps

Step 1) Open a image. Preferably one with many colors in it for starters. For starters, start with a jpeg photograph.

image.png.e718e2688dbc9f0a88dfc6ae6298623a.png

 

Step 2) Resize Canvas Size to 4096x4096. If it ends with a white background, you need to do it on a duplicate and erase the older layer after doing this.

Image Anchor can be anywhere.

 

image.png.261ec15d4d2f1d6361e5d14300d60f64.png

 

Note - 4096x4096 can hold 256^3 colors.

sqrt(256^3)=4096

 

3) Pick a color within the image. (I wish I can screenshot the cursor to demonstrate this)

4) Add new layer and put the layer below the image. Your layer structure should look like this.

 

image.png.2a4948c1808ef45635cebc343db27484.png

 

5) Fill the Empty Layer with the existing color of the image.

6) Flatten Image.

7) If you followed instruction correctly, your Paint.NET interface should look something like this:

image.png.d7199e37da07f38720f5ff36daf7db0f.png

 

4096 squared dimension? Check. All canvas filled? Check. One Layer? Check.

 

6) Open G'MIC QT under Effect->Advanced->G'MIC-QT

7) Click on Search above Available filters and type in Color Existence, then click on it.

image.png.760e90b9104bd4904fd08051eca53ebb.png

 

Note - Don't worry about empty or filled preview. You are likely using a image that takes a very small percentage of the possible 256^3 colors.

8 ) If you'd like to find existing colors in a distribution table, use Existing Colors, otherwise, use nonexisting colors. I'll pick existing colors.

9) Your result should look like this after 5-6 seconds. (I used a different image, one with a greater range of colors to demonstrate)

image.png.40b7e15485273aacc269c5fe9488ae44.png

 

Note the speckle of colors after you zoomed in

 

How to read the information generated by the filter?

1) Blue Color Increments start from left to right, and each 16 colors are incremented from top to bottom. This means that 0 Blue is on top left, and 255 Blue is on bottom right.

2) Left to Right within each blue square contains 0-255 Red Gradients.

3) Top to Bottom within each blue square contains 0-255 Green Gradient.

 

A sample image that contains all 256^3 colors - https://pixls-discuss.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/5/e/5e0f6e8983b2f5f7d5c99d40dcebb3f9bd73f091.png

provided by @G'MIC

 

Further information filtering - You can utilize Gravity plugin for Paint.NET. That way, you can be assured that you're not clicking on transparent area.

- EDIT as of 1/30/2020 for further information filter:  You can also use Grouped Pixels Axis-Based Shift filter within G'MIC-QT plugin. This option is reasonably fast, and you can place pixels into the center of image.

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2 hours ago, Sakana Oji said:

I cannot think why you didn't provide us with screenshots before

 

The reason why I didn't provide you screenshot earlier is that it was part of the filter development. I had posted the thread in order to generate the link as the link isn't as simple as URL one can make to direct to this thread once ready. There is a number on the URL, and that's not something I can guess. After the link is generated, I posted it into the g'mic filter I have made so that users can read this tutorial when the filter gets ready. You can click on the link provided by the filter, and then you'll see that it gets you to this thread.

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On 11/18/2019 at 11:16 PM, healthfreak said:

Thanks for sharing this tutorial.

A little late to respond, but you're welcome. This reminds me to add more detail. Information can be filtered even further with the usage of MadJik Gravity plugin.

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Now that Grouped Pixels Axis-Based Shift  G'MIC filter has been updated, and with no bugs or negligible bugs count, you can use this filter to place pixels right in the center. The speed of that filter has improved so much to usability in context of this tutorial. This note has been added.

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Update on this tutorial: Because of the G'MIC-QT update provided by null54, you can use this filter on a existing image, then paste into a new image provided the original image is smaller than 4096^2.

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