I have used resize_to_fill down to a [1,1] size thus reducing the image to a single pixel containing what is basically the average color of the entire image (provided the image does not have a huge disparity between height and width, of course).
Now I'm attempting to retrieve the color of this single pixel in hex format.
From the terminal window I am able to run the convert command like this:
convert image.png txt:
# ImageMagick pixel enumeration: 1,1,255,rgb
0,0: (154,135,116) #9A8774 rgb(154,135,116)
I am however uncertain of how I could run this command from inside the application during the before_save section of the model that the image belongs to.
The image is uploaded and attached using carrierwave
So far I have retrieved the image:
image = MiniMagick::Image.read(File.open(self.image.path))
But I'm not quite certain how to procede from here.
You could add a pixel_at
method like this:
module MiniMagick
class Image
def pixel_at(x, y)
case run_command("convert", "#{escaped_path}[1x1+#{x}+#{y}]", "-depth 8", "txt:").split("\n")[1]
when /^0,0:.*(#[\da-fA-F]{6}).*$/ then $1
else nil
end
end
end
end
And then use it like this:
i = MiniMagick::Image.open("/path/to/image.png")
puts i.pixel_at(100, 100)
Outputs:
#34555B
For recent versions of MiniMagick change escaped_path
to path
like this:
module MiniMagick
class Image
def pixel_at x, y
run_command("convert", "#{path}[1x1+#{x.to_i}+#{y.to_i}]", 'txt:').split("\n").each do |line|
return $1 if /^0,0:.*(#[0-9a-fA-F]+)/.match(line)
end
nil
end
end
end
To use with Rails 4 the code needs to be slightly different:
# config/application.rb
module AwesomeAppName
class Application < Rails::Application
config.after_initialize do
require Rails.root.join('lib', 'gem_ext.rb')
end
end
end
# lib/gem_ext.rb
require "gem_ext/mini_magick"
# lib/gem_ext/mini_magick.rb
require "gem_ext/mini_magick/image"
# lib/gem_ext/mini_magick/image.rb
module MiniMagick
class Image
def pixel_at(x, y)
case run_command("convert", "#{path}[1x1+#{x}+#{y}]", "-depth", '8', "txt:").split("\n")[1]
when /^0,0:.*(#[\da-fA-F]{6}).*$/ then $1
else nil
end
end
end
end
# example
#$ rails console
image = MiniMagick::Image.open(File.expand_path('~/Desktop/truck.png'))
#=> #<MiniMagick::Image:0x007f9bb8cc3638 @path="/var/folders/1q/fn23z3f11xd7glq3_17vhmt00000gp/T/mini_magick20140403-1936-phy9c9.png", @tempfile=#<File:/var/folders/1q/fn23z3f11xd7glq3_17vhmt00000gp/T/mini_magick20140403-1936-phy9c9.png (closed)>>
image.pixel_at(1,1)
#=> "#01A30D"