15110 Summer 2015

Lab 12

Goals

In previous labs you've seen how to draw simple shapes on the canvas and combine them to make interesting graphics like fractals. In this lab you will continue with graphics, exploring how arbitrary images can be encoded as two-dimensional list of pixels and manipulated using iteration.

When you are done you should be able to do the following:

  1. Understand how a two-dimensional list of pixels maps to the image on the screen.
  2. Create a list representing a simple image.
  3. Be fluent with code handling two-dimensional lists.
  4. Perform simple geometric transformations on an image representation, like flipping horizontally or vertically.
  5. Perform simple color transformations on an image representation.

Files

Deliverables

  1. flip_image.py
  2. c_flag.py
  3. swap_bg.py
  4. grayscale.py
  5. transpose.py

Part 1 - Bitmap Images

1.1 Class Activity

  1. Create a lab12 directory. Download the files image.py and nautical.ppm to this directory and cd to this directory. Run python3 and display the nautical flag alphabet on a Canvas by evaluating the following Python expressions: 
    from image import *
b = read_ppm("nautical.ppm")
c = start_image(250)
draw_image(c, b, 0, 0)
    		        

  2. The nautical alphabet image is a two-dimensional list of 200 by 136 pixels. It is encoded as a list of lists. The main list contains 200 rows. Each row is a list containing 136 pixels. Each pixel is a list of form [r,g,b], where r, g, and b are red, blue, and green intensity values from 0 to 255. Try the following expressions: 
    len(b)
len(b[0])
b[0][0]
b[100][100]
    Knowing that an image is a list of rows, write a function flip_image(image) that creates a new image that is image flipped upside-down and plots the result. Put this function in flip_image.py

    Then try flipping the nautical alphabet image upside-down.

1.2 Student Activities

  1. In the file c_flag.py, write a function c_flag to create a little 5-by-6 pixel image encoding the flag for the letter C in the nautical flag alphabet. Refer to the RGB Color Table to get the codes for red and navy blue. Since this image is very small, you will want to magnify it for display purposes by writing draw_image(c, c_flag(), 0, 0, 20).

    2. You may choose to do either 2 or 3. Your choice.

  2. In the file swap_bg.py, write a function swap_bg(image) that swaps the blue and green values of every pixel in the image, and plots the result. Test it on the nautical flag image. What happens if you call swap_bg repeatedly on the same image?

  3. In the file grayscale.py, write a function grayscale(image) that converts an image to grayscale by setting each pixel's r, g, and b values to their average value (r+g+b) // 3, and plots the resulting grayscale image. Test your function on the nautical flag image.

  4. Challenge problem: write a function transpose that flips an image along the major diagonal, so that the rows become columns and the columns become rows, and plots the result.

    Below is an image of the expected output: