Polygonize an image

[hellocatfood]

I'm trying to use Imagemagick to "polygonize" an image. To illustrate what I mean here's an example made with G'MIC.

Original photo: https://www.catster.com/wp-content/uplo ... y-shot.jpg

End result:



An explanation of how the G'MIC script works can be seen here: http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=9174

Can this be made in Imagemagick? I've tried using blur to average the colours but then I can't get the flat colours or straight lines.

[snibgo]

IM doesn't have a command that is the equivalent of GMIC's "polygonize" script. I expect it could be done in IM with a shell script, as IM and GMIC have similar primitive operations. To do it accurately, you could examine the GMIC script and find equivalent operations in IM.

[fmw42]

snibgo, I know it is not the same, but you might post your method for converting the image to circles. I believe that I saw that once before.

[fmw42]

You can get constant color sections as follows:

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convert cat.jpg -blur 0x3 -colorspace YIQ -monitor -mean-shift 51x51+10% +monitor -set colorspace YIQ -colorspace sRGB cat3.png

To polygonalize, you might be able to do that with a raster to vector tool such as potrace. But I have not used it before.

[hellocatfood]

To do it accurately, you could examine the GMIC script and find equivalent operations in IM.

I had a look at GMIC and it seems like the polygonize effect is a whole effect in itself (fx_polygonize_preview) so, unless I learnt C++ I don't think I could convert it to ImageMagick

To polygonalize, you might be able to do that with a raster to vector tool such as potrace. But I have not used it before.

Potrace does not have anything equivalent to Inkscape's Simplify Path option. The closest would be the -alphamax option:

set the corner threshold parameter. The default value is 1. The smaller this value, the more sharp corners will be produced. If this parameter is 0, then no smoothing will be performed and the output is a polygon. If this parameter is greater than 4/3, then all corners are suppressed and the output is completely smooth.

Still, this doesn't polygonize or simplify the resultant shape.

In the end I had to rely on using G'MIC from the command line. As described in their documentation I first ran the function in GIMP G'MIC and then copied the corresponding command line operation. In this case it was:

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gmic input_cat.jpg fx_polygonize_preview 300,10,10,10,10,0,0,0,255,0,50,50 -o output_cat.jpg

[snibgo]

... unless I learnt C++ I don't think I could convert it to ImageMagick.

It is written in GMIC's own scripting language. Here is (a version of) that script:

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#@cli polygonize : _warp_amplitude>=0,_smoothness[%]>=0,_min_area[%]>=0,_resolution_x[%]>0,_resolution_y[%]>0
#@cli : Apply polygon effect on selected images.
#@cli : Default values: 'warp_amplitude=300', 'smoothness=2%', 'min_area=0.1%', 'resolution_x=resolution_y=10%'.
#@cli : $ image.jpg +polygonize ,
polygonize : check "${1=300}>=0 && ${2=2%}>=0 && ${3=0.1%}>=0 && ${4=10%}>0 && ${5=$4}>0"
e[^-1] "Polygonize image$? with warp amplitude $1, smoothness $2, minimal area $3 and resolutions ($4,$5)."
v -  repeat $! l[$>]
+b $2 gradient_norm. g. a[-2,-1] c channels. 0,2 *. {1/0.1+max(abs(im),abs(iM))}
resx={max(1,round(if(${is_percent\ $4},w*$4,w/$4)-1))}
resy={max(1,round(if(${is_percent\ $5},h*$5,h/$5)-1))}
plane3d 1,1,$resx,$resy *3d. {0,w-1},{0,h-1},1
s3d. rm.. i.. (0;{h-1}) r.. 3,{h},1,1,3 round.. y..
[-4] a[-7--2] y r. 3,{h/3},1,1,-1 z. 0,1 permute. yzcx
repeat $1 +warp[1] .,0,0 +[-2,-1] done
permute. cxyz z. 0,2 y. j[2] .,0,8 rm[-3,-1]
[0],[0] j3d. [1],0,0,0,1,2 rm[1]
if {$3>0}
min_area={0,if(${is_percent\ $3},$3*w*h,$3)}
+area. 0,1 >=. $min_area +.. 1 *.. . distance. 1 *. -1 watershed.. . rm.
fi
blend shapeaverage
endl done v +

[fmw42]

You can use OpenCV to polygonalize from contours. See http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/mzucke ... proxpolydp