About

This project was developed as an alternative to the commonly used tool wal which was used by many in the UNIX community to extract colors from images in order to create terminal themes that matched their wallpapers.

The main flaw with wal is that it often missed smaller pops of differentiated color within an image, leaving its results monotone & uninteresting. This project aims to remedy that by using clustering algorithms on an image's colours so that small pockets of highly differentiated colours get picked up and have a shot at making it into the final colour palette.

For some examples, check out: http://fabricecastel.github.io/colors/examples.html

The project is still very much a work in progress, with background color logic in the works so that you can choose between light, dark & custom background colors. Feel free to join in the discussion via the github issues page, or the thread on /r/unixporn here

Setup

This program has the following dependencies:

Python 3
Numpy
SciKit

To setup the project:

Download and install Python 3: https://www.python.org/downloads/ (3.6.3 is the most up to date version as of the writing of this readme)
Download & Extract (or clone) the source files from the github repo: https://github.com/FabriceCastel/colorizer-terminator
run python3 setup.py to install the dependencies in the directory colorizer-terminator
run python3 extract.py path/to/image.jpg to run the program

Running the program will print the generated color palette and generate an html file with some previews that you can open in any web browser.

thejmazz/colorizer-terminator

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