RGBA stands for Red-Green-Blue-Alpha and specifies a color using four values which represent the amount of red, green, blue and alpha (opacity) in the color.
Questions tagged [rgba]
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PyPNG to draw a simple filled box
I am trying to draw a simple 256x256 pixel RGBA square using python's png module.
I'd like to use the png.Writer function and I imagine I'd have to draw it out using the write() method. I have not had any luck however! I don't have faith in my…

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Android: bitmap to RGBA and back
I'm trying to write a couple of methods to convert an Android Bitmap to an RGBA byte array and then back to a Bitmap. The problem is that I don't seem to hit the formula, because the colors are always coming back wrong. I have tried with several…

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How to convert an RGBA image to Grayscale in python?
I have array of shape (height, width, 4), i.e., RGBA format, and I want to convert this to grayscale. The original array has RGB values as 0 and the picture is rendered completely based on the alpha values over a white background, hence the…

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OpenCV VideoCapture removes alpha channel from video
I have video with alpha channel and I am trying to place it over another video as follows:
public static void overlayImage(Mat background, Mat foreground, Mat output, Point location) {
background.copyTo(output);
for (int y = (int)…

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Simplest format to store uncompressed RGBA image data
I'm currently creating a software tool that generates images that contain independent RGBA information for each pixel - meaning the red, green, blue and alpha components are supposed to be read and treated as separate entities in a single pixel…

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Go image manipulation
I need to load an image and search for colors and replace them. For example on an image I need to search for all red pixels and convert them to purple.
I am doing the following (img is a valid .png image):
func colorize(img image.Image) {
b :=…

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Mod_rewrite with multiple variables
I'm using a PHP script that dynamically generates transparent PNGs for use as CSS backgrounds from a query string that takes RGBa and HSLa values. The original script can be found here, I've only added HSLa support.
Because background URLs with PHP…

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Implement a near real-time CPU capability like glAlphaFunc(GL_GREATER) with RGB source and RGBA overlay
Latency is the biggest concern here. I have found that trying to render 3 1920x1080 video feeds with RGBA overlays to individual windows via OpenGL has limits. I am able to render two windows with overlays or 3 windows without overlays just fine,…

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Precision of alpha value in rgba
I'm plotting many thousand points in a canvas, where each point is an arc with a small alpha value, basically a density plot. At first I used 0.1 for the alpha, but get better results using 0.05. I was surprised that 0.05 worked (Chrome), as I've…

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CSS equivalent for Text Tint
I'm trying to export files from Adobe InDesign to basic HTML + CSS.
A user can select some text and change the text colour. Using the InDesign SDK I can fetch the RGB values for that colour and in the CSS file declare color: rgb(R,G,B) which works…

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Why do browsers render rgba differently on OSX?
I was trying to code up some color manipulation code and was stuck for a long time with alpha, then I (2 hours later) realized browsers render rgba differently.
I created this test: http://jsbin.com/adekez/2/
add /edit to look at the code
Here are…

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Fastest way to create a transparent image in Mathematica 8 or above?
At the moment I use:
transparent // ClearAll
transparent[i_] :=
Module[{r, g, b, a},
{r, g, b} = ImageData /@ ColorSeparate[i, "RGB"];
a = Unitize[3. - (r + g + b)];
(Image /@ {r, g, b, a})~ColorCombine~"RGB"
]
Is there a way to play with…

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Create RGBA Colormap in PyGTK
I have a project in Python 2.7 and PyGTK.
I need to create a transparent background window, but still be able to display images (pixmap and mask based) and other objects inside of the window.
I am using the following code, but no image objects are…

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Get names of a color based on alpha value
Let say I supply R with a color name '#023e8a'
Now I want to get 5 following color names with alpha values as c(0.8, 0.6, 0.5, 0.3, 0.2), which will be passed to ggplot as fill aesthetics.
Is there any function available in R or ggplot to achieve…

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How to convert 256 colors palettized RGBA image data to NSImage
I'm a newbie developer and I need your help with something that is probably trivial for you.
I have an image data in this pixel format: 256 colors palettized RGBA. It comes from FFmpeg (PIX_FMT_PAL8) and it's explained this way:
PIX_FMT_RGB32 is…

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