renoir documentation

A pedagogical Python toolkit for transparent computational colour analysis in art and design education. renoir exposes every analytical step — from k-means palette extraction through perceptual colour naming with art-historical vocabularies to novel interpretable metrics.

Contents:

• Installation
  • Basic Installation
  • With Visualization Support (Recommended)
  • From Source
  • Requirements
• Quick Start
  • Extracting a Colour Palette
  • Naming Colours with Art-Historical Vocabularies
  • Advanced Metrics
  • Visualisation
• API Reference
  • renoir.color.extraction
  • renoir.color.analysis
  • renoir.color.visualization
  • renoir.color.namer
  • renoir.color.prompt
  • renoir.analyzer
• Tutorials
  • Running the Notebooks
• Changelog
  • 3.3.1 (2026-04-19)
  • 3.3.0 (2026-03-15)
  • 3.0.3 (2025-12-01)
  • 3.0.0 (2025-11-10)

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page