Didactic RGB

[Pai Mei]

first i downloaded the graphic (the pixel) and opened it with paint. then i checked the rgb-value, calculated and got a wrong result.
then i copied the graphic and pasted it into paint. then i checked the rgb-value and it was slightly different (two of the three color values were decreased by 1). this second value led me to the right answer.

how come there is this difference?

[SinistraD]

I haven't had such a problem, but how do you get the rgb value of a pixel in Paint? I used GIMP, but Paint is always easier to attain for trivial tasks (like this).

[sabretooth]

I haven't had such a problem, but how do you get the rgb value of a pixel in Paint? I used GIMP, but Paint is always easier to attain for trivial tasks (like this).

use the eyedropper tool to select you colour then do to the 'colors' menu 'edit colors' click the 'define custom colors' button. Voila. RGB in decimal

hope that helps.

sabre

[SinistraD]

Thanks for the reply, never tried this way so far. I went that far to get the color with the "eyedropper", than I tried to obtain the RGB in the color toolbox.

[TechnoDemon]

i used pixlr for this challenge cause i've used to use photoshop but my license for it have been missing (i have formatted my hdd n when i try to reinstal the photoshop, the dvd-case is missing)*. Pixlr is similar to photoshop but one different: FREE TO USE!!!

*i really dislike using a cracked software. I hate it!

[zahnstein]

Had the same problem, paintbrush gave wrong values.
Tip: Use GIMP

[Silly Freak]

I used gimp under linux (rightclick/copy graphics, paste in gimp) but got the wrong value 10376136. then I checked on a friend's computer under windows, and the value was slightly off... how that?

[MyNameIsAlreadyTaken]

I'm using Linux (Ubuntu 10.10 64Bit) and Gimp too, I had no problem in getting the right value.


Maybe copying the Image was a bad idea, try again with rightclick -> save as

[rmplpmpl]

You encounter this problem, if the browser renders the picture, actually I do not understand why they do so, but you often see strange colors when comparing a picture in browser view compared to the "raw" pic

[megabreit]

It's probably because monitor color profiles and gamma correction change the output to be more "natural"... but this also means it's not "accurate" anymore.
BTW: This is OS independent

[rmplpmpl]

It's probably because monitor color profiles and gamma correction change the output to be more "natural"... but this also means it's not "accurate" anymore.
BTW: This is OS independent

Maybe, though it is strange: take wikipedia f.i. look at any picture, then click on it until you get only the picture displayed in the browser (not embedded in HTML) and you will get different colors, so I guess it has something to do with the browser. Monitor profiles would affect this as well, wouldn't they?

[megabreit]

Maybe, though it is strange: take wikipedia f.i. look at any picture, then click on it until you get only the picture displayed in the browser (not embedded in HTML) and you will get different colors, so I guess it has something to do with the browser. Monitor profiles would affect this as well, wouldn't they?

To be honest, I don't really know if it works like that. It's also possible, that the application may decide to honor color profiles or simply work with raw values. E.g. in Firefox there is a config option gfx.color_management.mode (see in about:config). Does the behavior change if you choose different values?

[wynk]

My tiny ruby solution:

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require 'rubygems'
require 'chunky_png'
image = ChunkyPNG::Image.from_file('didactrgb.png')
color = ChunkyPNG::Color.to_truecolor_bytes(image[0,0])
color.map! { |x| x.to_s(2).rjust(8, '0') }
puts color.join.to_i(2)

[DragonEgghead]

Step 1: Get the RGB value from MSPaint (as described by others).
Step 2: Plug in values to my script from before:

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int(''.join("%08d"%int(bin(i)[2:]) for i in [156, 84, 198]),2)

[AgRaven]

I found some research on png files helped explain why the colours were distorted. My solution was definitely roundabout, could have done it much simpler, but still, explains thecolour issues.