Paint Sheet Generator

Generates a paint sheet from an input image. The page is black and white and is numbered to an associating colour legend.

To Run & Use

Run the program in command line and provide the pathname to an image as an argument. Program will then open up a GUI and display where the rest of the interaction is done through keyboard key press.

Controls

• e is calculate with no dilated edges
• d is calculate with dilated edges
• s is save the result/product image in the same directory as the executable
• 1 shows the result/product
• 2 shows the quantized image with edges
• 3 shows the quantized image without edges
• 4 shows the original image

CMake

CMake is a multi-platform tool for being able to use whatever toolchain on whatever operating system to build a project.

Below are instructions on how to compile the project with CMake. The executable should be built in build in the main directory.

Windows Compilation

Important Steps

• It is recommended to utilize System over User for environment variables
• PATH environment variable must have the the location of the OpenCV .dll files, e.g. C:\opencv\build\x64\vc15\bin
• OPENCV_DIR environment variable have the main directory of OpenCV which contains the x64 , e.g. C:\opencv\build
• Applications must be restarted for reading new/updated environment variables
• The project directory should be clean of any Visual Studio project/solution files, etc

Visual Studio Open Folder Method

• Open the main directory of the git repository in Visual Studio by > Open a local folder
• Open source/CMakeLists.txt
• Build all or Debug

CMake GUI Method

• Open CMake-GUI
• Set the source code to source, e.g. C:/Users/DJ/Documents/GitHub/Project/source
• Set the build directory to a clean directory, e.g. C:/Users/DJ/Documents/GitHub/Project/source/build
• Click Configure > Visual Studio 2019, everything else default
• Click Generate
• Click Open Project
• Build the code (can be done by right clicking in the solution explorer)

To assign commands arguments in Visual Studio

• Right click CMakeLists.txt > Add Debug Configuration > Default
• Add "args": ["../1.jpg"] under "name": "CMakeLists.txt", (make sure there's a comma)

Linux Compilation

In Linux to use CMake:

• while in the main directory: mkdir build && cd build
• cmake ../source
• make