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Hi,

I have a mask, and also morphology edgeout from the mask. I want to remove unwanted black holes inside the edgeout, but since there may be holes I need to keep, I am trying to use a write-mask using the original alpha mask to keep the connected components code from removing parts I want to keep. Problem is, it's not working, and I don't know why. Am I doing it wrong, or is there another way to do this?

Mask

Edgeout

Connected components code

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-define connected-components:mean-color=true \
-define connected-components:area-threshold=500 \
-connected-components 4

What I'm trying to do

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-write-mask mask.png \
-define connected-components:mean-color=true \
-define connected-components:area-threshold=500 \
-connected-components 4 +write-mask

I'm using IM 7

The two images appear to be exclusive of each other. Nevertheless, I am not sure if you can even use a write mask with -connected-components

Yes, it seems to not be compatible. Write mask works for me in other areas

My other idea to pursue is to overlay the mask image onto the edgeout (which will leave only the unwanted holes), use define to remove the holes, then use the mask again to cut out the original part in the edgeout. Is it viable? Currently working on figuring out how to do this (I'm still new, don't know much)

My current code:

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border=25
octagon=20
fuzz=0
blur=2x20
threshold=500

magick \( $1 +repage -bordercolor white -border 1x1 \
-fuzz $fuzz% -fill transparent -floodfill +0+0 white -shave 1x1 \
-bordercolor transparent -border ${border}x${border} \) \
\( -clone 0 -fill white -colorize 100% \) \
\( -clone 0 -alpha extract +write tmp0.png -write mpr:alpha -morphology edgeout octagon:$octagon \
-define connected-components:mean-color=true \
-define connected-components:area-threshold=$threshold \
-connected-components 4 \
+write tmp1.png \) \
-alpha off -compose over -composite +write tmp2.png \
\( mpr:alpha -morphology dilate octagon:$octagon \
-define connected-components:mean-color=true \
-define connected-components:area-threshold=$threshold \
-connected-components 4  -blur $blur -level 50x100% +write tmp3.png \) \
-alpha off -compose copy_opacity -composite -trim \
$1.gif

Current image used for testing

What do you get left in the image if you must use connected components that you do not want or that you want to preserve.

This is an image from later in the process, but you can see that the edgeout effect from earlier had created an enclosed area, and thus created an unintended "hole" (depending on the image, it can be much worse than this), which is left in the image's final result (as you can see, we can find and remove the hole because we have a mask of the areas we want to keep).

I realized that I couldn't remove just any gap in the image, because there are some pieces which need to stay. So I have to differentiate what to keep before using define

And using define without first accounting for the areas I want to keep would result in this. See how the unintended hole is gone, but it also filled in the areas I wanted

Why not just use -morphology close on your first image above to remove the small hole

From my limited understanding and what I've read in the docs, it seems that I need to do a morphology close on a extracted alpha copy (not sure what to call that). So I still need to:
1, figure out how to first combine the alpha extracted copy with the edge image to create a complete white mask (except for the holes I want to get rid of)
2, remove the holes (using the define code, or morphology close as you suggested)
3, use the mask again to make those parts black (make it the way it was originally)

P.S. I tried morphology close on the first image, and it didn't turn out pretty

If you increased the area-threshold just a small amount (I guess in your edge out image), it would have removed that one tiny hole in the first image from your previous post.

I guess I really do not know what you are trying to do. Can you show the start image and one processed and point out what you are trying to do and what is wrong.

Forgive me, I've never done any image work, ever, and I'm also completely new to IM. Still trying to explain it best I can and figure it out.

Start image

End current result (see the gap inside?)

What I actually want (little gap is gone). Other images have bigger gaps that I want to remove. So the threshold needs to be big enough. The point is, remove anything that isn't supposed to be there.

Code

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border=40
octagon=20
fuzz=0
blur=2x20
threshold=500

magick \( $1 +repage -bordercolor white -border 1x1 \
-fuzz $fuzz% -fill transparent -floodfill +0+0 white -shave 1x1 \
-bordercolor transparent -border ${border}x${border} \) \
\( -clone 0 -fill white -colorize 100% \) \
\( -clone 0 -alpha extract +write tmp0.png -write mpr:alpha -morphology edgeout octagon:$octagon +write tmp1.png \) \
-alpha off -compose over -composite +write tmp2.png \
\( mpr:alpha -morphology dilate octagon:$octagon \
-blur $blur -level 50x100% +write tmp3.png \) \
-alpha off -compose copy_opacity -composite -trim \
$1.gif

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Problem: there's a lot of other holes in the image I want to keep (the waterdrops), but still remove the gap that shouldn't be there

And removing all the gaps would remove my water drops too

My intended solution:
After the morphology edgeout code, use a write-mask right before the define connected code

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-morphology edgeout octagon:$octagon \
-write-mask mpr:alpha -define connected-components:mean-color=true \
-define connected-components:area-threshold=$threshold \
-connected-components 4 +write-mask

Problem, that didn't work. My next idea to solve it, is
1, overlay the alpha extraction (mpr:alpha) on top of the morphology edgeout image (this will make the inside completely white, except for the holes I want to remove)

It would look likes this:

2, remove the holes with the define connected (actually, I can use morphology close here now at this point since it won't have unintended side effects)

This would give this

3, use the alpha extraction to again cut out (turn black) the inside, just like the original edgeout will look, but minus the hole I don't want

This would result in the (see how the gap is now gone)

I don't know if this is the best way to approach this problem, but it's the best I can think of. I also don't know yet how to do what I want to (what I said above), because I'm still new, and still reading the docs. Is this the best way to accomplish my goal? Any other way? How would I do it?

I hope I explained clearly enough for you this time

Something is wrong with your processing since the images are not the same size. But it seems that the following would do what you want, if you fix the sizing (probably remove the padding you might have added - see -shave). Just multiply the original with the mask from step 2.

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convert bitmoji432844786.png storage_emulated_0_Android_data_com_bitstrips_imoji_cache_tmp1_2.png +repage -compose multiply -composite result.png

My solution

Line 1, create mask from image, do morphology edgeout
2, replace the background black with transparent on the mask
3, combine the mask with the edgeout in order to show only holes that shouldn't be there
4, fill the entire background with white to reveal only the holes to fill in (which will be black), and negate it to make the black white (entire image will turn transparent unless you use alpha off)
5, replace the background (now black because of negate) with transparent, leaving only white holes to be replaced
6, overlay it over the morphology edge image, thus eliminating the unwanted holes

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\( -clone 0 -alpha extract +write $idir/tmp0.png -write mpr:alpha -morphology edgeout octagon:$octagon -write mpr:edge +write $idir/tmp1.png \
mpr:alpha -fill transparent -floodfill +0+0 black \
-compose over -composite +write $idir/tmp2.png \
-fill white -floodfill +0+0 transparent -alpha off -negate +write $idir/tmp3.png  \
-fill transparent -floodfill +0+0 black -write mpr:chunk +write $idir/tmp4.png \
mpr:edge -compose dst_over -composite +write $idir/tmp5.png \) \

Full code

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magick \( $1 +repage -bordercolor white -border 1x1 \
-fuzz $fuzz% -fill transparent -floodfill +0+0 white -shave 1x1 \
-bordercolor transparent -border ${border}x${border} \) \
\( -clone 0 -fill white -colorize 100% \) \
\( -clone 0 -alpha extract +write $idir/tmp0.png -write mpr:alpha -morphology edgeout octagon:$octagon -write mpr:edge +write $idir/tmp1.png \
mpr:alpha -fill transparent -floodfill +0+0 black \
-compose over -composite +write $idir/tmp2.png \
-fill white -floodfill +0+0 transparent -alpha off -negate +write $idir/tmp3.png  \
-fill transparent -floodfill +0+0 black -write mpr:chunk +write $idir/tmp4.png \
mpr:edge -compose dst_over -composite +write $idir/tmp5.png \) \
-alpha off -compose over -composite +write $idir/tmp6.png \
\( mpr:alpha mpr:chunk -compose over -composite \
-morphology dilate octagon:$octagon  \
-blur $blur -level 50x100% +write $idir/tmp7.png \) \
-alpha off -compose copy_opacity -composite -trim  +repage \
$1.gif

Source image

tmp0

tmp1

tmp2

tmp3

tmp4

tmp5 (as opposed to tmp1)

tmp6

tmp7

Final result

How it would've looked without replaced holes

There may be a better and more efficient way to do this .... Let me know if you have any ideas to streamline it. At least I have a working example now though

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