What would be a good TRUE black and white colormatrix?

Question

I want to convert an image from color to B/W (i.e. no grayscale, just black and white). Does anyone have a good colormatrix to achieve this?

Answer 1

VB.NET version:

Using gr As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(SourceImage) 'SourceImage is a Bitmap object'
  Dim gray_matrix As Single()() = {
    New Single() {0.299F, 0.299F, 0.299F, 0, 0},
    New Single() {0.587F, 0.587F, 0.587F, 0, 0},
    New Single() {0.114F, 0.114F, 0.114F, 0, 0},
    New Single() {0, 0, 0, 1, 0},
    New Single() {0, 0, 0, 0, 1}
  }
  Dim ia As New System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageAttributes
  ia.SetColorMatrix(New System.Drawing.Imaging.ColorMatrix(gray_matrix))
  ia.SetThreshold(0.8)
  Dim rc As New Rectangle(0, 0, SourceImage.Width, SourceImage.Height)
  gr.DrawImage(SourceImage, rc, 0, 0, SourceImage.Width, SourceImage.Height, GraphicsUnit.Pixel, ia)
End Using