fast-colorthief 0.0.1

Dominant colors in image

Fast colortheif

A Python module for selecting most dominant colors in the image. Based on https://github.com/fengsp/color-thief-py but faster.

Installation

pip install fast_colorthief

Example

import fast_colorthief

image_path = 'image.jpg'

dominant_color = fast_colorthief.get_dominant_color(image_path)
color_palette = fast_colorthief.get_palette(image_path)

Benchmark

1200 x 1200 jpg image

Algorithm	Time per image
Fast colorthief (input numpy array)	0.0012s
Fast colorthief (input filename)	0.034s
Reference (https://github.com/fengsp/color-thief-py) (input filename)	0.509s

How does it work

Backend is written in C++ for better performance.

Uses Modified Median Cut Quantization algorithm.