This tool is a work in progress project that started 2017 and has not been worked on since then. It was originally related to the digital humanities research "Colour palettes and their social expression during realism and impressionism".
The project Taking the point, that art structurally reproduces the society the artist was living in, as an initial point we will focus our research on paintings as an art form. We want to study how exactly the coherence of an art work and the society in which it was created appears. [...] But we think that there is a major characteristic of paintings describing the emotion and the meaning behind a single image and even the whole art style that is analysable through computer science: the used colours or consciously not used colours.
The analysing tool [...] The tool must be effective and fast. At the moment one painting is processed in less than a second. From our point of view this is already quite fast, but nonetheless if you want to analyse for example 10000 paintings the script will need over 2 hours. This should also be considered in another improving circle. The second task to consider was that we extracted the colours through the PIL module and this led to the fact that there are up to 16,7 million possible colours. Because we wanted to count the colours we had to reduce the variety down to 125 colours. [Image 1]
[Image 1] - Process of reducing the colors to 125.
A GUI was added a little bit later. At the moment the tool is capable of processing a directory of .jpg files and then show the main colors as a palette. The project is now added to GitHub for further work and optimization.
git clone https://github.com/Nicolas-le/color-palettes-extractor.git
cd color-palettes-extractor
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 paletteExtractor.py
--> go in the directory your files are in and hit run.
- implement user input
- number of wanted colors
- possibility of redoing the analysis
- process other file formats, such as .png
- style the gui
- implement output formats
- json
- see color codes of palette
- maybe safe output in DB
- optimize calculation time
- add loading bar
- comment code
- delete dead code
- change all function names to english (sorry)