use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say'; use PDL; use PDL::IO::Image; use open IO => 'raw'; my $data = `convert -size 5x5 radial-gradient:red-green bmp:-`; my $im = PDL::IO::Image-> new_from_file( \$data ) -> pixels_to_pdl -> long; my $flat = $im-> copy; $flat-> slice( [],[],2 )-> inplace-> shiftleft( 16, 0 ); $flat-> slice( [],[],1 )-> inplace-> shiftleft( 8, 0 ); my $cube = $flat-> mv( 2, 0 ) -> sumover -> flat -> hist( 0, 0x1000000, 1 ) -> reshape( 256, 256, 256 ); ### Demo say $im; say my $uniq_reds = $im-> slice( [],[],0 )-> uniq; say my $uniq_greens = $im-> slice( [],[],1 )-> uniq; say $cube-> dice( $uniq_reds, $uniq_greens, 0 ); __END__ [ [ [ 0 0 0 0 0] [ 0 75 128 75 0] [ 0 128 255 128 0] [ 0 75 128 75 0] [ 0 0 0 0 0] ] [ [128 128 128 128 128] [128 91 64 91 128] [128 64 0 64 128] [128 91 64 91 128] [128 128 128 128 128] ] [ [0 0 0 0 0] [0 0 0 0 0] [0 0 0 0 0] [0 0 0 0 0] [0 0 0 0 0] ] ] [0 75 128 255] [0 64 91 128] [ [ [ 0 0 0 1] [ 0 0 4 0] [ 0 4 0 0] [16 0 0 0] ] ]