Is this possible?

Questions
1

Is it possible to find the x,y coordinates of a certain color on the screen? Or a perhaps a group with the same color and find the center of that? I tried using image:get(), but it only gets 1 pixel, so that doesn’t work. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance.

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You could could use image:get() on each pixel I turn by using a couple of loops.

for x=1,WIDTH do
for y=1,HEIGHT do
--do your pixel check
end
end
3

@Leviathan Actually r,g,b,a=image:get(x,y) does work. You just have to go thru all of the x,y values for that image to find the color you want.

4

@dave1707 Really? Wow, that’s cool. But when I put Width/2 and Height/2 for height. It doesn’t work. It only reads that pixel. So I’m still confused on what your saying. Can you give an example?

5

@Leviathan Here an example. This will print only 100 color values because there could be thousands.


function setup()
    img=readImage("Planet Cute:Character Boy")
    w=img.width -- width of image
    h=img.height    -- height of image
    count=0 -- set count to 0
    for x=1,w do    -- loop for width
        for y=1,h do    -- loop for height
            r,g,b,a=img:get(x,y)    -- get pixel color
            if r>0 and g>0 and b>0 and a>0 then -- check value above 0
                print(r,g,b,a)
                count=count+1
                if count>100 then   -- only print 100 values
                    break
                end
            end
        end
        if count>100 then   -- only do 100 times
            break
        end
    end
end

function draw()
    background(40, 40, 50)
    sprite(img,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/2)    -- show image
end
6

@dave1707 hey thank you! I like how you used the break tool. Forgot about that in the old lua programmer on ios. Sweet thank you! This all makes sense.

7

You could also add a third parameter to skip over a few pixels in between, good for speeding things up. Using image.get can be very slow and make a noticable difference if you use it enough.


function setup()
    img=readImage("Planet Cute:Character Boy")
    w=img.width -- width of image
    h=img.height    -- height of image
    count=0 -- set count to 0
    skip = 5 -- New line: how many pixels to jump at a time in the for loops
    for x=1,w,skip do    -- loop for width, notice the new third parameter
        for y=1,h,skip do    -- loop for height, notice the new third parameter
            r,g,b,a=img:get(x,y)    -- get pixel color
            if r>0 and g>0 and b>0 and a>0 then -- check value above 0
                print(r,g,b,a)
                count=count+1
                if count>100 then   -- only print 100 values
                    break
                end
            end
        end
        if count>100 then   -- only do 100 times
            break
        end
    end
end

function draw()
    background(40, 40, 50)
    sprite(img,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/2)    -- show image
end
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@Leviathan - if you want to find the whole filled area, you can use SkyTheCoder’s suggestion to find the first pixel (assuming the colour only occurs in one place of course), and then use a recursive loop to find all the neighbouring cells with the same colour. I used one in this post (see the recursion part at bottom)

https://coolcodea.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/18-lessons-from-a-simple-board-game-part-1/

(NB in the code, Wordpress mangles > signs into &gt and < into &lt)

(It can be done more efficiently using a table, but I can’t find my code for that right now).

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@Ignatz I’ll take a look at that, thank you!