Re: [Gimp-user] Histogram

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Anja_W <forums gimpusers com> wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I am fairly new to Gimp, but love it. I am a marine biologist and I would like to use this program for my 
> research. I do need to export the histogram values as I need to do some calculations (pixel count and 
> value). Is there any way I can do this? Thank you for your help.
>
> Anja
>
> --
> Anja_W (via gimpusers.com)
> _______________________________________________
> gimp-user-list mailing list
> gimp-user-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list

I think Gimp would be the wrong tool for this.

You might want to use R (http://www.r-project.org/)  for this sort of
thing which will also allow you to do a whole bunch other
calculations. It's a very powerful statistical / mathematical
programming language with great graphics support.

Note that since each pixel in general is a vector of 3 values
typically between (0, 1) or (0, 255), you can plot each channel
separately in R to give you the histogram or you can do other plots.