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Raster mosaic images
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# Drawing a mosaic composite image | |
doInstall <- TRUE # Change to FALSE if you don't want packages installed. | |
toInstall <- c("png", "devtools", "RCurl", "ReadImages", "reshape") | |
if(doInstall){install.packages(toInstall, repos = "http://cran.r-project.org")} | |
lapply(toInstall, library, character.only = TRUE) | |
# Some helper functions, lineFinder and makeTable | |
source_gist("818983") | |
source_gist("818986") | |
# In as few lines as possible, get URLs for .PNGs of each flag | |
importHTML <- readLines("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_flags") | |
importHTML[lineFinder("thumbborder", importHTML)] | |
pngURLs <- makeTable(makeTable(importHTML[lineFinder("thumbborder", | |
importHTML)], "src=\"//")[, 2], "\" width=\"")[, 1] | |
pngURLs <- paste0("http://", pngURLs) | |
# CAUTION: The following script will literally download and save 204 .PNG | |
# images of flags to your working directory. Use at your own risk, | |
# and you might want to setwd(). | |
doDownload <- TRUE # Set to FALSE if you've already downloaded the PNGs. | |
pngList <- list() | |
for(ii in 1:length(pngURLs)){ | |
tempName <- paste("Pic", ii) | |
if(doDownload){ | |
download.file(pngURLs[ii], # This reads PNGs directly from the | |
paste0(tempName, ".png"), # URL, and stashes them in the | |
mode = "wb") # working directory | |
} | |
tempPNG <- readPNG(paste0(tempName, ".png")) # And this re-loads them | |
pngList[[tempName]] <- tempPNG # And assigns them to a list. | |
} | |
# Very simple dimension reduction -- just the mean R, G, and B values | |
meanRGB <- t(sapply(pngList, function(ll){ | |
apply(ll[, , -4], 3, mean)[1:3] | |
})) | |
# Load an image to composite | |
url <- "http://photos3.pix.ie/0F/D7/0FD7466E51E44BA283B6A95BFD9166A1-0000342864-0002483378-00064S-00000000000000000000000000000000.jpg" | |
url <- "http://api.ning.com/files/k0*RRphj2a3d4KgfBmYqmm0uZkUyAxRApszj8AIAeviJ4dW*VdReJymuGbp6f1vZG3tIlIYhG1Kx*DJqx9hnVAN2hmLspugL/1250834834817265300x291Cute_Puppy_by_awibawa.jpg?crop=1%3A1&width=64" | |
download.file(url, "tempPicture.jpg", mode = "wb") # Stash image locally | |
readImage <- read.jpeg("tempPicture.jpg") | |
longImage <- melt(readImage) | |
rgbImage <- reshape(longImage, timevar = "X3", | |
idvar = c("X1", "X2"), direction = "wide") | |
rgbImage[, 1:2] <- sweep(rgbImage[, 2:1], 2, c(100, -100), "*") | |
plot(rgbImage[, 1:2], col = rgb(rgbImage[, 3:5]), pch = 19, asp = 1) | |
# Plot: | |
par(mai = c(0, 0, 0, 0)) | |
plot(rgbImage[, 1:2], type = "n", asp = 1) | |
for(ii in 1:nrow(rgbImage)){ # Go through pixel in the large image | |
targetRGB <- rgbImage[ii, 3:5] # v Finds the most-similar tile image | |
nearestPic <- which.min(rowSums(sweep(meanRGB, 2, unlist(targetRGB))^2)) | |
Coords <- rgbImage[ii, 1:2] | |
rasterImage(pngList[[nearestPic]], # Plot each pic with these boundaries: | |
Coords[1]-50, Coords[2]-50, | |
Coords[1]+50, Coords[2]+50) | |
} |
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