Images are colorized, recolorized, or otherwise manipulated by adding
scribbles of a blending medium (such as chrominance) to a measurement
medium (such as luminance) of the image. The blending medium propagates
from the scribbles according to an intrinsic or geodesic distance that is
a function of the measurement medium. Intrinsic distances may be
weighted. An effect scribble may produce an effect, such as result data,
in the blending medium according to a predefined function. A
preprocessing scribble may be converted to one or more effect scribbles
which are then propagated. A measurement scribble may propagate so as to
alter the intrinsic distances of other scribbles.