Thanks Thomas. Yes, I'm starting to see all the headaches that come with flexibility in dtypes and colors. Thanks for linking, that clears some stuff up for me. On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Thomas A Caswell <tcaswell@uchicago.edu>wrote:

There is no canonical mapping between scalar values (1d) and RGB (3d) which is why matplotlib has so many color maps.

If you pass in to imshow a NxMx3 or NxMx4 array it is interpreted as RGB or RGBA values respectively (see http://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.imshow) and not color mapped. If the arrays are float they are assumed to be in the range [0-1], if they are integers they should be uint8. There was some discussion recently on github abut tweaking the validation a bit (issues 2499 and 2632).

Tom On Dec 31, 2013 1:01 PM, "Adam Hughes" <hughesadam87@gmail.com> wrote:

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Thanks Stefan. That helps clarify some of the dtypes to me; however I still have a few confusions in regard to color data. I should have specified this more in my OP.

I am trying to create a program where all color data is stored as RGB. This requires a validator that does flexible *to_rgb()* conversion. I want the users to have flexibility, so it should accept names like "aqua" as well as RGB tuples. I realize now that imshow() will do its own conversions, but still don't quite understand exactly what constraints I need to impose on users for all the various use cases. For example, if a user enters a single integer (say 239), is there a de-facto way to rgb-convert this? I've tried to exhause the scenarious below; any case with question marks is still unclear to me.

INPUT TYPE INPUT EXAMPLE HANDLER DESIRED OUTPUT

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hex string '#0FF000' ColorConverter.to_rgb() (.2, .4, .5) name string 'purple ' ColorConverter.to_rgb() (.1, .8, .3) < 1 float tuple ' (.5, .2, .4) PASS (.5, .2, .4)

...

1 float/int tuple (30, 28, 90) ???? ???? int 140 (Digital channel?) (140, 140, 140)??? float 39.5 (Error??) ???

I read on wiki that a RGB tuple with elements > 1 can be interpreted as a "Digital Channel", so perhaps just leave these as is. The tough cases for me are really when a user enters a single Int or Float. Of course, I could just raise an exception if there's no de-facto way to handle this...

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>wrote:

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Hi Adam

On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:37:43 -0800, Adam Hughes wrote:

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I noticed recently that matplotlib.colors limits RGB values to a range (0 - 1), while in scikit image, RGB values can be much larger. For example:

*test = np.zeros( (500,500,3) )*

*test[:,:,0]=50* *test[:,:,1]=19* *test[:,:,2]=25*

*imshow(test); *

Produces a teal background. I was curious how the color teal is derived from this? I tried normalizing to 255 and and 50 but neither seemed to produce the same teal color.

Here's a write-up of the data-type and range representation that scikit-image uses:

http://scikit-image.org/docs/0.9.x/user_guide/data_types.html

When visualizing data with Matplotlib, note that data is normalized by default, so you have to specify "vmin" and "vmax" to correctly display your generated background.

Regards Stéfan

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