只是另一个答案，尽管它与Supr的答案相似-只是不同的颜色空间。

问题是:人类感知颜色的差异并不均匀，而RGB颜色空间忽略了这一点。因此，如果你使用RGB颜色空间，只是计算两种颜色之间的欧几里得距离，你可能会得到一个在数学上绝对正确的差异，但与人类告诉你的不一致。

This may not be a problem - the difference is not that large I think, but if you want to solve this "better" you should convert your RGB colors into a color space that was specifically designed to avoid the above problem. There are several ones, improvements from earlier models (since this is based on human perception we need to measure the "correct" values based on experimental data). There's the Lab colorspace which I think would be the best although a bit complicated to convert it to. Simpler would be the CIE XYZ one.

这里有一个网站列出了在不同颜色空间之间转换的公式，所以你可以尝试一下。

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。

对于快速和肮脏，你可以做到

import java.awt.Color;
private Color dropPrecision(Color c,int threshold){
    return new Color((c.getRed()/threshold),
                     (c.getGreen()/threshold),
                     (c.getBlue()/threshold));
}
public boolean inThreshold(Color _1,Color _2,int threshold){
    return dropPrecision(_1,threshold)==dropPrecision(_2,threshold);
}

利用整数除法对颜色进行量化。

一个只使用RGB的简单方法是

cR=R1-R2 
cG=G1-G2 
cB=B1-B2 
uR=R1+R2 
distance=cR*cR*(2+uR/256) + cG*cG*4 + cB*cB*(2+(255-uR)/256)

我已经使用这个工具有一段时间了，它可以很好地用于大多数目的。

颜色值有不止一个维度，所以没有内在的方法来比较两种颜色。您必须为您的用例确定颜色的含义，从而确定如何最好地比较它们。

很可能你想比较颜色的色相、饱和度和/或明度属性，而不是红/绿/蓝组件。如果你不知道如何比较它们，那就拿几对样品颜色，在心里比较一下，然后试着向自己证明/解释为什么它们相似/不同。

一旦你知道了你想要比较的颜色的哪些属性/成分，那么你就需要弄清楚如何从颜色中提取这些信息。

最有可能的是，你只需要将颜色从常见的RedGreenBlue表示转换为HueSaturationLightness，然后计算类似的东西

avghue = (color1.hue + color2.hue)/2
distance = abs(color1.hue-avghue)

这个例子会给你一个简单的标量值，指示颜色的渐变/色相彼此之间的距离。

参见维基百科上的HSL和HSV。

The best way is deltaE. DeltaE is a number that shows the difference of the colors. If deltae < 1 then the difference can't recognize by human eyes. I wrote a code in canvas and js for converting rgb to lab and then calculating delta e. On this example the code is recognising pixels which have different color with a base color that I saved as LAB1. and then if it is different makes those pixels red. You can increase or reduce the sensitivity of the color difference with increae or decrease the acceptable range of delta e. In this example I assigned 10 for deltaE in the line that I wrote (deltae <= 10):

<script>   
  var constants = {
    canvasWidth: 700, // In pixels.
    canvasHeight: 600, // In pixels.
    colorMap: new Array() 
          };



  // -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  function fillcolormap(imageObj1) {


    function rgbtoxyz(red1,green1,blue1){ // a converter for converting rgb model to xyz model
 var red2 = red1/255;
 var green2 = green1/255;
 var blue2 = blue1/255;
 if(red2>0.04045){
      red2 = (red2+0.055)/1.055;
      red2 = Math.pow(red2,2.4);
 }
 else{
      red2 = red2/12.92;
 }
 if(green2>0.04045){
      green2 = (green2+0.055)/1.055;
      green2 = Math.pow(green2,2.4);    
 }
 else{
      green2 = green2/12.92;
 }
 if(blue2>0.04045){
      blue2 = (blue2+0.055)/1.055;
      blue2 = Math.pow(blue2,2.4);    
 }
 else{
      blue2 = blue2/12.92;
 }
 red2 = (red2*100);
 green2 = (green2*100);
 blue2 = (blue2*100);
 var x = (red2 * 0.4124) + (green2 * 0.3576) + (blue2 * 0.1805);
 var y = (red2 * 0.2126) + (green2 * 0.7152) + (blue2 * 0.0722);
 var z = (red2 * 0.0193) + (green2 * 0.1192) + (blue2 * 0.9505);
 var xyzresult = new Array();
 xyzresult[0] = x;
 xyzresult[1] = y;
 xyzresult[2] = z;
 return(xyzresult);
} //end of rgb_to_xyz function
function xyztolab(xyz){ //a convertor from xyz to lab model
 var x = xyz[0];
 var y = xyz[1];
 var z = xyz[2];
 var x2 = x/95.047;
 var y2 = y/100;
 var z2 = z/108.883;
 if(x2>0.008856){
      x2 = Math.pow(x2,1/3);
 }
 else{
      x2 = (7.787*x2) + (16/116);
 }
 if(y2>0.008856){
      y2 = Math.pow(y2,1/3);
 }
 else{
      y2 = (7.787*y2) + (16/116);
 }
 if(z2>0.008856){
      z2 = Math.pow(z2,1/3);
 }
 else{
      z2 = (7.787*z2) + (16/116);
 }
 var l= 116*y2 - 16;
 var a= 500*(x2-y2);
 var b= 200*(y2-z2);
 var labresult = new Array();
 labresult[0] = l;
 labresult[1] = a;
 labresult[2] = b;
 return(labresult);

}

    var canvas = document.getElementById('myCanvas');
    var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
    var imageX = 0;
    var imageY = 0;

    context.drawImage(imageObj1, imageX, imageY, 240, 140);
    var imageData = context.getImageData(0, 0, 240, 140);
    var data = imageData.data;
    var n = data.length;
   // iterate over all pixels

    var m = 0;
    for (var i = 0; i < n; i += 4) {
      var red = data[i];
      var green = data[i + 1];
      var blue = data[i + 2];
    var xyzcolor = new Array();
    xyzcolor = rgbtoxyz(red,green,blue);
    var lab = new Array();
    lab = xyztolab(xyzcolor);
    constants.colorMap.push(lab); //fill up the colormap array with lab colors.         
      } 

  }

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    function colorize(pixqty) {

         function deltae94(lab1,lab2){    //calculating Delta E 1994

         var c1 = Math.sqrt((lab1[1]*lab1[1])+(lab1[2]*lab1[2]));
         var c2 =  Math.sqrt((lab2[1]*lab2[1])+(lab2[2]*lab2[2]));
         var dc = c1-c2;
         var dl = lab1[0]-lab2[0];
         var da = lab1[1]-lab2[1];
         var db = lab1[2]-lab2[2];
         var dh = Math.sqrt((da*da)+(db*db)-(dc*dc));
         var first = dl;
         var second = dc/(1+(0.045*c1));
         var third = dh/(1+(0.015*c1));
         var deresult = Math.sqrt((first*first)+(second*second)+(third*third));
         return(deresult);
          } // end of deltae94 function
    var lab11 =  new Array("80","-4","21");
    var lab12 = new Array();
    var k2=0;
    var canvas = document.getElementById('myCanvas');
                                        var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
                                        var imageData = context.getImageData(0, 0, 240, 140);
                                        var data = imageData.data;

    for (var i=0; i<pixqty; i++) {

    lab12 = constants.colorMap[i];

    var deltae = deltae94(lab11,lab12);     
                                        if (deltae <= 10) {

                                        data[i*4] = 255;
                                        data[(i*4)+1] = 0;
                                        data[(i*4)+2] = 0;  
                                        k2++;
                                        } // end of if 
                                } //end of for loop
    context.clearRect(0,0,240,140);
    alert(k2);
    context.putImageData(imageData,0,0);
} 
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

$(window).load(function () {    
  var imageObj = new Image();
  imageObj.onload = function() {
  fillcolormap(imageObj);    
  }
  imageObj.src = './mixcolor.png';
});

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 var pixno2 = 240*140; 
 </script>