Color Palette Extraction

[olivervogel]

The ability to generate color palettes from an image instance.

// palette extraction
$popular = $image->colors()->popular(limit: 512);
$dominant = $image->colors()->dominant(limit: 5);
$swatches = $image->colors()->swatches();

// swatches
$vibrant = $swatches->vibrant;
$muted = $swatches->muted;
$darkVibrant = $swatches->darkVibrant;
$darkMuted = $swatches->darkMuted;
$lightVibrant = $swatches->lightVibrant;
$lightMuted = $swatches->lightMuted;

// get color from palettes
$mostPopular = $popular->first();
$mostDominant = $dominant->first();

// color space transformation
$cmykPopular = $popular->toColorspace(Cmyk::class)

[deluxetom]

@olivervogel no problem, want me to post a PR to this branch with the fixes? I have some extra claude usage I can dedicate to this :)

[olivervogel]

@deluxetom That would be really great. I pushed my last local commits.

[olivervogel]

@deluxetom I've moved a few things around. Mainly put the quantization logic directly to the palette and added a method to quantize but keep original channel values.

Thanks again for the support.

[deluxetom]

@olivervogel last review, almost there :)

Worth fixing before merge (both cheap, both hit the documented $swatches['...'] API):

1. src/Colors/Swatches/AbstractSwatches.php:55 - offsetExists() uses property_exists(), so isset($swatches['vibrant']) returns true when the swatch is null (the normal "no match" result, see testFilterColorsNotFound). if (isset($swatches['lightMuted'])) { $swatches['lightMuted']->toHex(); } fatals. Use $this->{$offset} !== null.
2. AbstractSwatches.php:75 and :85 - offsetSet()/offsetUnset() accept any offset, so $swatches['foo'] = $color creates a dynamic property. Deprecated on PHP 8.3+, an Error in PHP 9. Guard against unknown offsets.

Worth a maintainer's opinion:

3. src/Analyzers/AbstractPaletteAnalyzer.php:25 - every sampled pixel calls $image->colorAt(), which goes through Image::analyze() and a full AbstractDriver::specialize(). Up to ~111k specializations per analysis on a 10000x10000 image. Reuse one specialized analyzer, or do a driver-level bulk pixel read.

[olivervogel]

Unfinished Business

1. Optimization of sample pixel collection

src/Analyzers/AbstractPaletteAnalyzer.php:25 - every sampled pixel calls $image->colorAt(), which goes through Image::analyze() and a full AbstractDriver::specialize(). Up to ~111k specializations per analysis on a 10000x10000 image. Reuse one specialized analyzer, or do a driver-level bulk pixel read.

2. Standardize SwatchesInterface and PaletteInterface

We could consider extending SwatchesInterface from PaletteInterface to standardize the handling, since they both do almost the same thing.

The main difference is that Palette objects use integers as iteration keys, while Swatches objects use strings.

The implementation of sorting functions in Swatches is also still undecided.

3. Palettes and ColorFilters

I think it makes more sense overall if ColorFilterInterface::filterColors() returns its input (Palette objects) in the same type. Currently the method returns SwatchesInterface.

A new PaletteInterface::filter() method is a good option; it accepts ColorFilterInterface objects and returns PaletteInterface objects.

It's unclear where to put the swatch object instantiation.

4. Pick most used color in reduce()

Pick most used color instead of just the first one.