From: Serabe <serabe@...>
Date: 2009-02-28T00:07:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Image/Pattern Recognition

2009/2/27 Becky Franklin <bex_3000@hotmail.com>:
> Hey folks,
>
> I have a project I'm trying to work out the feasibility of being able to
> do - I want to process images that consist of a grid of squares
> containing symbols, and I want to be able to break down the grid so that
> the program can work out how many of each symbol there are and where it
> is on the grid. Not sure if this is something that's going to be do-able
> from what I've googled! Does RMagick or any of the gems have a possible
> solution to this?

You can use get_pixels (
http://www.imagemagick.org/RMagick/doc/image2.html#get_pixels ) for
getting pixels in a region and store_pixels for (yes, you guessed it)
store pixels in a image.

Regards,

Serabe

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