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Find the dominant colour in an image
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def get_dominant_color(image): | |
""" | |
Find an image's dominant color. | |
""" | |
image = image.convert('RGB') | |
# Shrink the image so we don't spend too long analysing color frequencies. | |
image.thumbnail((200, 200)) | |
max_score = None | |
dominant_color = None | |
for count, (r, g, b) in image.getcolors(image.size[0] * image.size[1]): | |
# Get color saturation, 0-1 | |
saturation = colorsys.rgb_to_hsv(r / 255.0, g / 255.0, b / 255.0)[1] | |
# Calculate luminance - integer YUV conversion from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUV | |
luminance = min(abs(r * 2104 + g * 4130 + b * 802 + 4096 + 131072) >> 13, 235) | |
# Rescale luminance from 16-235 to 0-1 | |
luminance = (luminance - 16.0) / (235 - 16) | |
# Ignore extremely bright colors | |
if luminance > 0.9: | |
continue | |
# Calculate the score, preferring highly saturated colors. | |
# Add 0.1 to the saturation so we don't completely ignore grayscale | |
# colors by multiplying the count by zero, but still give them a low | |
# weight. | |
score = (saturation + 0.1) * count | |
if score > max_score: | |
max_score = score | |
dominant_color = (r, g, b) | |
return dominant_color |
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