G'MIC - GREYC's Magic for Image Computing: A Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing
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A Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing

Latest stable version: 3.5.5        Current pre-release: 3.6.0 (2025/08/04)

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quantize

Arguments:

  • nb_levels>=1,_keep_values={ 0:No | 1:Yes },_quantization_type={ -1:Median-cut | 0:K-means | 1:Uniform }

Description:

Quantize selected images.

Default values:

keep_values=1 and quantization_type=0.

Examples of use:

• Example #1

image.jpg luminance +quantize 3

Command: image.jpg luminance +quantize 3
Command: image.jpg luminance +quantize 3

• Example #2

200,200,1,1,'cos(x/10)*sin(y/10)' +quantize[0] 6 +quantize[0] 4 +quantize[0] 3 +quantize[0] 2

Command: 200,200,1,1,'cos(x/10)*sin(y/10)' +quantize[0] 6 +quantize[0] 4 +quantize[0] 3 +quantize[0] 2
Command: 200,200,1,1,'cos(x/10)*sin(y/10)' +quantize[0] 6 +quantize[0] 4 +quantize[0] 3 +quantize[0] 2
Command: 200,200,1,1,'cos(x/10)*sin(y/10)' +quantize[0] 6 +quantize[0] 4 +quantize[0] 3 +quantize[0] 2
Command: 200,200,1,1,'cos(x/10)*sin(y/10)' +quantize[0] 6 +quantize[0] 4 +quantize[0] 3 +quantize[0] 2
Command: 200,200,1,1,'cos(x/10)*sin(y/10)' +quantize[0] 6 +quantize[0] 4 +quantize[0] 3 +quantize[0] 2
G'MIC - GREYC's Magic for Image Computing: A Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing

G'MIC is an open-source software distributed under the CeCILL free software licenses (LGPL-like and/or
GPL-compatible). Copyrights (C) Since July 2008, David Tschumperlé - GREYC UMR CNRS 6072, Image Team.