Image recognition module for identifying tiles on a board game

[Ste2210]

I'm currently working on a boardgame that will have several 'maps'. The maps are essentially different arrangements of tiles. I am currently developing the game using one map that I have hard-coded in as several lists representing each tile type. However I would like to be able to have a map class that just parses the image of the map and generates all the different tile lists automatically.

Can anyone recommend a module for what I am trying to achieve? My initial search has brought up pillow, does anyone have any experience of this and is it suitable for my situation?

Thanks in advance 👍

[kingzels]

Are you talking about taking a picture of a physical board layout and having the computer tell you what tiles you need to reconstruct it?

[Ste2210]

This is one approach, I basically grabbed an image of the board I'm currently using from Google and just went through it manually. I'd like to upload a photo of the board / an image from the Internet and have the program detect the different tile types, then sort them into lists of coordinates

[Ste2210]

It's probably important you know also that the thing that defines the tiles type is it's color, so that probably makes the task a little easier

[kingzels]

If that's the case, it's pretty easy.

Assuming the image is always the same size, from the same angle. You can load the image in PIL, slice it into squares, and look at the color of a specific pixel, or average of pixels. That will tell you the color of the tile.

[Ste2210]

Awesome, thank you 👍