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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:16:47
Message-Id: 1194901784.17198.65.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image by Willie Wong
1 On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 15:46 -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
2 > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:17:32PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
3 > > The background of the image looks green to me (0, 255, 0), but identify
4 > > claims it's white. Is there a way I can know for sure without having to
5 > > go through all the RGB codes? The convert created BMP's won't open in
6 > > gimp....
7 > >
8 > I don't think identify is THAT good. :)
9 >
10 > I am pretty sure the "background" part is an artifact of the identify
11 > program, and not actually any information in the bmp file. AFAIK, the
12 > Windows BMP file format is just that: bitmaps. It does not store
13 > additional information such as the background color.
14 >
15 > I think the problem is that you converted from a format (gif) that stores
16 > information about backgrounds to one (bmp) that doesn't, and therefore
17 > the information got lost.
18 >
19 > If you try identify on the originals, you will probably pick up the
20 > correct colors.
21 >
22 > W
23 > --
24 > Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu
25 > 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton
26 > A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
27 This is the identify information for the original:
28
29 michael@camille ourrpg $ identify -verbose ffight.gif
30 Image: /home/michael/ffight.gif
31 Format: GIF (CompuServe graphics interchange format)
32 Class: PseudoClass
33 Geometry: 64x64+0+0
34 Type: PaletteMatte
35 Endianess: Undefined
36 Colorspace: RGB
37 Depth: 8-bit
38 Channel depth:
39 Red: 8-bit
40 Green: 8-bit
41 Blue: 8-bit
42 Alpha: 1-bit
43 Channel statistics:
44 Red:
45 Min: 0 (0)
46 Max: 255 (1)
47 Mean: 55.8652 (0.219079)
48 Standard deviation: 104.988 (0.411717)
49 Green:
50 Min: 0 (0)
51 Max: 255 (1)
52 Mean: 192.945 (0.756648)
53 Standard deviation: 98.3791 (0.3858)
54 Blue:
55 Min: 0 (0)
56 Max: 255 (1)
57 Mean: 10.8623 (0.0425973)
58 Standard deviation: 44.2567 (0.173556)
59 Opacity:
60 Min: 0 (0)
61 Max: 255 (1)
62 Mean: 171.079 (0.670898)
63 Standard deviation: 119.821 (0.469887)
64 Alpha: rgba(0,255,0,1) #00FF0000
65 Histogram:
66 2748: ( 0,255, 0,255) #00FF0000 rgba(0,255,0,1)
67 668: (255, 57, 0, 0) #FF3900 rgb(255,57,0)
68 444: ( 0, 0, 0, 0) #000000 black
69 212: (247,214,181, 0) #F7D6B5 rgb(247,214,181)
70 24: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
71 Colormap: 256
72 0: ( 0, 0, 0, 0) #000000 black
73 1: ( 0,255, 0,255) #00FF0000 rgba(0,255,0,1)
74 2: (247,214,181, 0) #F7D6B5 rgb(247,214,181)
75 3: (255, 57, 0, 0) #FF3900 rgb(255,57,0)
76 4: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
77 5: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
78 6: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
79 7: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
80 8: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
81 9: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
82 10: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
83 11: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
84 12: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
85 13: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
86 14: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
87 15: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
88 16: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
89 17: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
90 18: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
91 19: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
92 20: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
93 21: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
94 22: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
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282 210: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
283 211: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
284 212: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
285 213: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
286 214: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
287 215: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
288 216: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
289 217: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
290 218: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
291 219: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
292 220: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
293 221: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
294 222: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
295 223: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
296 224: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
297 225: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
298 226: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
299 227: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
300 228: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
301 229: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
302 230: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
303 231: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
304 232: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
305 233: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
306 234: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
307 235: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
308 236: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
309 237: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
310 238: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
311 239: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
312 240: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
313 241: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
314 242: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
315 243: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
316 244: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
317 245: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
318 246: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
319 247: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
320 248: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
321 249: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
322 250: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
323 251: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
324 252: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
325 253: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
326 254: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
327 255: (255,255,255, 0) #FFFFFF white
328 Rendering intent: Undefined
329 Resolution: 72x72
330 Units: Undefined
331 Filesize: 1.1875kb
332 Interlace: None
333 Background color: black
334 Border color: rgb(223,223,223)
335 Matte color: grey74
336 Transparent color: rgba(0,255,0,1)
337 Page geometry: 64x64+0+0
338 Dispose: Undefined
339 Compression: ColorBurn
340 Orientation: Undefined
341 Signature:
342 35337a670266b1d6687c903e52b2cfe0568ef47b2ca46ea59ea0072736dc6a2a
343 Tainted: False
344 Version: ImageMagick 6.3.5 09/29/07 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
345
346 It claims that the background is black, but the gif doesn't show a
347 background at all, and the BMP shows a green background. Can you see
348 anything in the listing that I haven't that will help me to know what
349 color I need to set transparent for the BMP? I tried setting (0, 255,
350 0, 1) transparent, and it still showed up green.
351
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - finding rgb code of the background of an image Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>