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--- color_difference [2025/06/14 13:47] – frchris
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 In March 2024 Tim Chartler (and friends)  published [[https://q76y71yn.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fpolo.feathr.co%2Fv1%2Fanalytics%2Fcrumb%3Fflvr=email_link_click%26t_id=683756fba43c73b76b6733e0%26a_id=654d018ae970b0e931530752%26e_id=6789933f87c548ea1722e898%26cpn_id=683756fba43c73b76b6733df%26per_id=65f9cc87e59097ba2d6cf2e3%26email_addr=cthiel@sfhs.net%26rdr=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.tandfonline.com%252Fdoi%252Ffull%252F10.1080%252F29932955.2024.2348432/1/0100019735a9eb6b-ef3a2664-69b9-4554-9d09-a1d68552d863-000000/sOyK2Y34X3hzJiWObHVV_pIZDvA=428| Data Science Distance: When Close seems far]].  The article describes switching from Euclidean distance to a difference distance formula called ΔE*.
+The picture below shows two ways to reduce a full color picture into a picture using only 6 colors.  Each uses the same 6 colors. Each replaced every pixel with the one of the 6 colors, using the "closest" color.
+It comes down to how you determine "close".  The Euclidean distance is on the left, and the ΔE* distance is used on the right,
+{{ https://www.tandfonline.com/cms/asset/58c5a5b6-c286-461c-ba51-b79232484124/usca_a_2348432_f0006_c.jpg}}
+References
+  - [[https://hajim.rochester.edu/ece/sites/gsharma/ciede2000/|CIEDE2000 color-difference formula]]
+  - [[https://www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/sRGB.html| sRGB Matrices]]
+  - [[https://github.com/mr-rycho/cielab-demo.git| CIELab demo]]