您需要将任何RGB颜色转换为Lab颜色空间，以便能够以人类看到它们的方式进行比较。否则你会得到RGB颜色“匹配”在一些非常奇怪的方式。

关于颜色差异的维基百科链接向您介绍了多年来定义的各种Lab颜色空间差异算法。最简单的方法是检查两种实验室颜色的欧几里得距离，可以工作，但有一些缺陷。

在OpenIMAJ项目中有一个更复杂的CIEDE2000算法的Java实现。提供你的两组Lab颜色，它会给你一个距离值。

我尝试了各种方法，如LAB颜色空间，HSV比较，我发现光度在这个目的上非常有效。

这是Python版本

def lum(c):
    def factor(component):
        component = component / 255;
        if (component <= 0.03928):
            component = component / 12.92;
        else:
            component = math.pow(((component + 0.055) / 1.055), 2.4);

        return component
    components = [factor(ci) for ci in c]

    return (components[0] * 0.2126 + components[1] * 0.7152 + components[2] * 0.0722) + 0.05;

def color_distance(c1, c2):

    l1 = lum(c1)
    l2 = lum(c2)
    higher = max(l1, l2)
    lower = min(l1, l2)

    return (higher - lower) / higher


c1 = ImageColor.getrgb('white')
c2 = ImageColor.getrgb('yellow')
print(color_distance(c1, c2))

会给你

0.0687619047619048

Actually I walked the same path a couple of months ago. There is no perfect answer to the question (that was asked here a couple of times) but there is one, more sophisticated than the sqrt(r-r) etc. answer and more easy to implement directly with RGB without moving to all kinds of alternate color spaces. I found this formula here which is a low cost approximation of the quite complicated real formula (by the CIE which is the W3C of colors, since this is a not finished quest, you can find older and simpler color difference equations there). Good Luck.

编辑:为了子孙后代，这里是相关的C代码:

typedef struct {
     unsigned char r, g, b;
} RGB;

double ColourDistance(RGB e1, RGB e2)
{
    long rmean = ( (long)e1.r + (long)e2.r ) / 2;
    long r = (long)e1.r - (long)e2.r;
    long g = (long)e1.g - (long)e2.g;
    long b = (long)e1.b - (long)e2.b;
    return sqrt((((512+rmean)*r*r)>>8) + 4*g*g + (((767-rmean)*b*b)>>8));
}

我猜你最后想分析一幅完整的图像，对吧?所以你可以检查单位颜色矩阵的最小/最大差值。

大多数处理图形的数学操作都使用矩阵，因为使用矩阵的可能算法通常比经典的逐点距离和比较计算更快。(例如，对于使用DirectX, OpenGL，…的操作)

所以我认为你应该从这里开始:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_matrix

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_difference_equation

…正如Beska在上面评论的那样:

这可能不会带来最好的“可见”差异……

这也意味着，如果你在处理图像，你的算法取决于你对“相似”的定义。

我在我的android up中使用了这个，它似乎令人满意，尽管不建议使用RGB空间:

    public double colourDistance(int red1,int green1, int blue1, int red2, int green2, int blue2)
{
      double rmean = ( red1 + red2 )/2;
    int r = red1 - red2;
    int g = green1 - green2;
    int b = blue1 - blue2;
    double weightR = 2 + rmean/256;
    double weightG = 4.0;
    double weightB = 2 + (255-rmean)/256;
    return Math.sqrt(weightR*r*r + weightG*g*g + weightB*b*b);
}

然后我用下面的方法得到相似度的百分比:

double maxColDist = 764.8339663572415;
double d1 = colourDistance(red1,green1,blue1,red2,green2,blue2);
String s1 = (int) Math.round(((maxColDist-d1)/maxColDist)*100) + "% match";

它工作得很好。

快速回答

我找到这个帖子是因为我需要这个问题的Swift版本。由于还没有人给出答案，我的答案是:

extension UIColor {

    var rgba: (red: CGFloat, green: CGFloat, blue: CGFloat, alpha: CGFloat) {
        var red: CGFloat = 0
        var green: CGFloat = 0
        var blue: CGFloat = 0
        var alpha: CGFloat = 0
        getRed(&red, green: &green, blue: &blue, alpha: &alpha)

        return (red, green, blue, alpha)
    }

    func isSimilar(to colorB: UIColor) -> Bool {
        let rgbA = self.rgba
        let rgbB = colorB.rgba

        let diffRed = abs(CGFloat(rgbA.red) - CGFloat(rgbB.red))
        let diffGreen = abs(rgbA.green - rgbB.green)
        let diffBlue = abs(rgbA.blue - rgbB.blue)

        let pctRed = diffRed
        let pctGreen = diffGreen
        let pctBlue = diffBlue

        let pct = (pctRed + pctGreen + pctBlue) / 3 * 100

        return pct < 10 ? true : false
    }
}

用法:

let black: UIColor = UIColor.black
let white: UIColor = UIColor.white

let similar: Bool = black.isSimilar(to: white)

我设置小于10%的差异返回相似的颜色，但你可以自定义这自己。