THAT IS EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for assisting with searching around - I will post and share once I get moving further along - Actually - I am sure to need some assistance from the list here and there - but thanks for the huge lift at the start!
Thanks again! Jay Miller Jon Hall wrote: Well here is something for a start, I did a little looking around for you, and it need not be as complex as fiddling around with bitmaps. ImageMagick has a nifty feature that allows you to convert an image to text. A JPEG comes out looking like this: 0,0: 65535,65535,65535 #FFFFFF 1,0: 65535,65535,65535 grey100 2,0: 65535,65535,65535 grey100 3,0: 65535,65535,65535 grey100 4,0: 65535,65535,65535 grey100 5,0: 65535,65535,65535 grey100 <snip/> 39,0: 65535,65535,65535 grey100 40,0: 64507,65535,64250 #FBFFFA 41,0: 63479,65278,63479 #F7FEF7 42,0: 65278,65535,65021 #FEFFFD 43,0: 65535,65021,65021 #FFFDFD 44,0: 65535,65278,65021 #FFFEFD The first column is the x,y pixel coordinate and the right one is the color, and I have no clue what the 3 numbers in the middle are :) >From this point though, it's a straight-forward task to count the numbers of distinct colors in the file. I 'd bet there is a UDF at cflib.org that will even do the counting. You also might want imagemagick to do some color reduction before converting it to text would speed it up, and reduce the amount of colors the Flash front end has to deal with... ImageMagick can be run using cfexecute or it's COM object via cfobject (it's COM interface is very simple, it might even work in MX), and it's free! http://www.imagemagick.org <http://www.imagemagick.org> jon Saturday, August 24, 2002, 3:31:40 PM, you wrote: JM> Thanks for your posts guys - I think it's funny how some of you got JM> "porn" from that - Actually it is on the other end of the spectrum and JM> quite an innocent little program I am researching for myself. JM> As for getting a hold of a graphics guy - I am. 15 years heavy print and JM> graphic design 3 years coldfusion. So that is why I posted - I hav e been JM> searching and searching - for color specific items like chroma keying JM> and such where you take exact colors and filter them out - I f igure if JM> they can tell you what to remove - they need to read what's there. JM> As for the major softwares - illustrator, adobe and fireworks having JM> stuff like this - they really don't that I have seen through the years. JM> I understand your suggestion on the bitmap - that's a good idea - but JM> being more of a imaging guy- Not quite sure where to start - haven't JM> coded things like that yet- Just heavy SQL and database for commerce sites . JM> You have a starting point on that code? Tutorials or samples that do or JM> run close to what you mentioned. At least if I have a starting point it JM> would help! JM> thanks JM> jay JM> Jon Hall wrote: You really need to get ahold of someone who specializes in imaging applications (maybe one of the Fireworks guys?)and ask if there is a library out there that does this already, and then you could integrate it with CF on the server, which would feed your flash app the values you need. The only way I could think of to do this without a helper app, would be to convert the jpeg into a windows bitmap. Then run through the bitmap color by color adding them up, and doing the math at the end. This certainly wouldn't be the fastest process in the world, but it would work, and would be relatively easy to code. Someone with more knowledge of image formats may be able to tell you a slicker, faster way of doing this though. Hopefully that someone is lurking here. JM> ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
