Hello, i'm currently designing an online tool to help visualize the major colors relations and proportions of an image, especially a thematic color map (choropleth). I'm currently fine-tuning the parameters and writing the paper. It's a new version of a prototype developed for my PhD thesis.
The aim is to facilitate the comprehension of color gradients used in maps. I imagine two main uses : first to understand a "good" thematic map to potentially reuse its colors, second to evaluate a work-in-progress. Often, the use of an automatic cartography software don't provide an appreciation of the quantitative proportion of the image surface used by colors. There is an idea about compensating large patches of colors by reducing their saturation.
The principle is quite simple : the major colors are represented as proportional symbols on a (HSV) color wheel.
The tool is free, open-source and don't require the upload of the image, they are processed locally within the browser (the magic of the HTML5+JS combo).
The main parameter is the YUV color difference, ie. the threshold above which the pixels colors are not aggregated into a color bin.
What do you think ?