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lylejk
 Post subject: True Pseudogrey in GIMP.
PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 2:04 am  (#1) 
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Many years ago, I ran across this site and was intriqued with this concept. I was using Sample Colorize but I would inevitably get way too many tones. Only recently (like an hour ago; lol) found out why (you will have to see the tut for the settings). Anyway, Click the link to the tut and you too will be Pseudo Greying (see tut for a cool test that you can try yourself as well and you too will be a believer). :)

Link to Tutorial: http://justpaste.it/pseudog_gimp

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 Post subject: Re: True Pseudogrey in GIMP.
PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 2:09 am  (#2) 
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OK; manage to create a gradient with exactly 1786 tones. Count them yourself using Color Cube analysis. I was trying to do a diagonal gradient and never thought to just do a vertical. :)


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 Post subject: Re: True Pseudogrey in GIMP.
PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 6:26 am  (#3) 
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I had a mind to write a script to perform this... and actually did so (code is in spoiler below), however, it would seem that the Palette Map plug-in does not properly handle palettes with more than 256 colors; so my script does not work. I am only including it as an example of how not to do it (the generation of the palette is correct, though, and should be more accurate than obtained through the gradient method).

I guess one would have to generate a temporary image with the pseudo-gray palette and then use Sample Colorize (I may do this in the future, but have other things occupying my time at the moment). Note that it was not too long ago that Sample Colorize could not effectively be called non-interactively so if script or plug-in is written using this approach, be aware that it will only work with GIMP 2.6.11 or later.

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(define (script-fu-sg-pseudo-gray image layer)
  (define (make-pseudo-gray-palette)
    (gimp-progress-set-text "Creating palette...")
    (gimp-palette-new "Pseudo Grays")
    (let loop ((color 0))
      (if (= color 255)
        (begin
          (gimp-palette-add-entry "Pseudo Grays" "white" '(255 255 255))
          (gimp-progress-end) )
        (begin
          (map (lambda (x)
                  (gimp-progress-pulse)
                  (gimp-palette-add-entry "Pseudo Grays"
                                          ""
                                          x ))
                  (let ((grays (make-list 7 (make-list 3 color)))
                        (nears '((0 0 0) (0 0 1) (1 0 0) (1 0 1)
                                 (0 1 0) (0 1 1) (1 1 0) )) )
                    (map (lambda (a b)
                           (map + a b) ) grays nears) ))
          (loop (+ color 1)) ))))
  (gimp-image-undo-group-start image)
  (gimp-context-push)
  (cond
    ((zero? (car (gimp-palettes-get-list "Pseudo Grays")))
      (make-pseudo-gray-palette) )
    ((<> (car (gimp-palette-get-info "Pseudo Grays")) 1786)
      (gimp-palette-delete "Pseudo Grays")
      (make-pseudo-gray-palette) ))
  (gimp-context-set-palette "Pseudo Grays")
  (plug-in-palettemap RUN-NONINTERACTIVE image layer)
  (gimp-displays-flush)
  (gimp-context-pop)
  (gimp-image-undo-group-end image)
  )
 
(script-fu-register "script-fu-sg-pseudo-gray"
  "Pseudo-gray"
  "Desaturate image to 1786 levels of \"near\" grays"
  "Saul Goode"
  "saulgoode"
  "May 2012"
  "RGB*"
  SF-IMAGE    "Image"    0
  SF-DRAWABLE "Drawable" 0
  )
 
(script-fu-menu-register "script-fu-sg-pseudo-gray"
  "<Image>/Colors/"
  )

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 Post subject: Re: True Pseudogrey in GIMP.
PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 8:56 am  (#4) 
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When you do a black and white gradient map (dragged) properly, it will be a Pseudogrey image as I showed in my followup link; that's what's cool. Once you have a good target (a pseudogrey gradient or the pyrimid that I actually used in the tut) it's child's play for Sample Colorize. I have since noticed that sometimes I have to still run Sample Colorize twice to get 1786 colors (not for the target in the tut though). Still, no real big deal.

Wish I could have the desire to learn how to program Saul, but lost my appetite since I got out of Engineering (and really since college; didn't really have to do much coding as an Analog EE). I'm an idea's guy anyway. I wonder if this could be done in G'MIC? :)

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 Post subject: Re: True Pseudogrey in GIMP.
PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:19 am  (#5) 
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If you were to make a layer above your greyscale image fill it with white and then run the RGB noise filter with all the color sliders set all the way up to 1.0 and then reduce the opacity of the layer to 2.0 and merge down you can achieve even more shades as shown in the colorcube analysis. But while it looks greyscale it is RGB.

I find this colorcube and sample colorize to be very useful to me in creating smooth raster patterns for 3D height map images. What I do is all the steps above but I also blur the merged image by a setting of 5. Then I do the Sample Colorize as shown in the tutorial and it comes out even smoother.

It actually changes the numbe of colors again, (reducing it) but this seems to result in a smoother image than just doing the blur at a setting of 5.

Thanks for the info Lyle.

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 Post subject: Re: True Pseudogrey in GIMP.
PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 1:04 pm  (#6) 
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lylejk wrote:
When you do a black and white gradient map (dragged) properly, it will be a Pseudogrey image as I showed in my followup link; that's what's cool.


In blend Dialog there are two check-boxes, Dither and Adaptive Super-sampling.

If neither is checked you will get 256 colours.
If both are checked you will get between 1745 and 1754 depending of them supersampling sliders, possibly out of that range, even.
With just Dither Checked I've seen as little as 1660 and as much as 1786

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 Post subject: Re: True Pseudogrey in GIMP.
PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 1:44 pm  (#7) 
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Good things to know Rob; never really played with those settings. :)

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 Post subject: Re: True Pseudogrey in GIMP.
PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 4:28 pm  (#8) 
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I have corrected an error in the script in my previous post. I originally had the green and magenta "near gray" values transposed (as exhibited in the following graphic, green has a higher luminosity than magenta.)

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PostPosted: Sun May 13, 2012 4:07 pm  (#9) 
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Just curious Saul; have you made any progress in getting your script to output true Pseudo-grey? :)

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 Post subject: Re: True Pseudogrey in GIMP.
PostPosted: Sun May 13, 2012 5:41 pm  (#10) 
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lylejk wrote:
Just curious Saul; have you made any progress in getting your script to output true Pseudo-grey? :)

No, I haven't; however, it appears to be possible to create a gradient with thousands of segments. So perhaps it would be feasible to modify my script to create a pseudo-gray gradient (with 1785 segments) which can then be applied using 'plug-in-gradmap', with the caveat being whether gradmap retains more than 8-bit precision when it calculates luminosity.

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