Manual: ppmtoarbtxt
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NAME
ppmtoarbtxt - generate image in arbitrary text format from PPM image
SYNOPSIS
ppmtoarbtxt bodytmpl [-hd headtmpl] [-tl tailtmpl] [ppmfile]
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
ppmtoarbtxt generates simple text-based graphics formats based on format descriptions given as input. A text-based
graphics format is one in which an image is represented by text (like PNM plain format, but unlike PNM raw format).
ppmtoarbtxt reads a PPM image as input. For each pixel in the image, ppmtoarbtxt writes the contents of the template
file bodytmpl, with certain substitutions based on the value of the pixel, to Standard Output.
You may also supply a head template file, in which case ppmtoarbtxt generates text from the template file, based on
the image dimensions, and includes it in the output before anything else.
Likewise, you may supply a tail template file to cause text to be placed at the end of the output.
Template Files
The text that ppmtoarbtxt generates from a template file is the literal text of the template file, except with sub‐
stitution specifier replaced with something else. The program recognizes a substitution specifier as text of the
form #(...).
ppmtoarbtxt treats white space in the template files the same as any other characters, placing it in the output, with
one exception: If the template file ends with a newline character, ppmtoarbtxt ignores it -- it does not include it
in the output.
Many substitution specifiers use format strings (another form of template) to specify the substitution. You should
make these format strings as minimal as possible, placing literal text outside the substitution specifier instead of
inside the format string. For example,
Wrong: #(flum %%%2.2f 0 1)
Right: %#(flum %2.2f 0 1)
The valid substitution specifiers are as follows. Text that has the form of a substitution specifier but is not ac‐
tually valid (e.g. #(random junk) usually just specifies its literal value, but if it is close enough to something
valid, ppmtoarbtxt assumes you made a mistake and fails.
Useful in a body template, to do substitutions based on a particular pixel:
#(ired format blackref whiteref)
generates an integer in the range blackref to whiteref in a format specified by format representing the red
intensity of the pixel. A red intensity of 0 becomes blackref; a red intensity of maxval becomes whiteref,
with the rest linearly interpolated in between.
format is a printf-like format specifier like "%d". ppmtoarbtxt uses as the entire format string to a fprintf
POSIX library call whose only other argument is the red itensity as an integer data type. ppmtoarbtxt does
not necessarily verify that your format string makes sense; there are values you could specify that could even
crash the program. To avoid unexpected behavior, keep format strings simple and hardcoded, and never include
a per cent sign or newline.
#(ired) is equivalent to #(ired %d 0 255).
#(igreen format blackref whiteref)
Same as #(ired..., but for green.
#(iblue format blackref whiteref)
Same as #(ired..., but for blue.
#(ilum format blackref whiteref)
Same as #(ired..., but representing the luminance value (0.299*red + 0.587*green + 0.114*blue) of the pixel.
#(fred format blackref whiteref)
Same as #(ired..., but generates a floating point number instead of an integer.
In this case, the second argument to the fprintf that uses format has a double precision floating point data
type.
#(fred) is equivalent to #(fred %f 0.0 1.0).
#(fgreen format blackref whiteref)
Same as #(fred..., but for green.
#(fblue format blackref whiteref)
Same as #(fred..., but for blue.
#(flum format blackref whiteref)
Same as #(fred..., but representing the luminance value (0.299*red + 0.587*green + 0.114*blue) of the pixel.
#(posx format)
Generates the horizontal position of the pixel, in pixels from the left edge of the image.
The second argument to the fprintf that uses format has an unsigned integer data type.
format defaults to %u
#(posy format)
Same as #(width..., but for the vertical position.
If you use any of the above substitution specifiers in a head or tail template, the result is undefined.
Useful in a head or tail template, to do substitutions based on whole-image attributes:
#(width format)
Generates the width in pixels of the image.
The second argument to the fprintf that uses format has an unsigned integer data type.
format defaults to %u
#(height format)
Same as #(width..., but for the height of the image.
OPTIONS
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see Common Options ),
ppmtoarbtxt recognizes the following command line options:
-hd headtmpl
This option specifies a head template (headtmpl is the name of the head template file); it causes ppmtoarbtxt
to place the contents of the file named headtmpl at the beginning of the output
-tl tailtmpl
This option specifies a tail template; it is analogous to -hd.
EXAMPLES
gray inversion
Here we generate a PGM plain-format image with gray inversion (like ppmtopgm | pnminvert).
Contents of our head template file:
P2
#(width) #(height)
255
Contents of our body skeleton file:
#(ilum %d 255 0)
povray file
Here we generate a povray file where each pixel is represented by a sphere at location (x,y,z) = (posx,height-
posy,luminance). The color of the sphere is the color of the pixel.
Contents of our head skeleton:
#include "colors.inc"
#include "textures.inc"
camera {
location <#(width) * 0.6, #(height) * 0.7, 80>
look_at <#(width) * 0.5, #(height) * 0.5, 0>
}
light_source { <#(width) * 0.5, #(height) * 0.5, 25> color White
}
Contents of our body skeleton:
sphere { <#(posx),#(height)-#(posy),#(ilum %d 0 10)>, 0.5
texture {
pigment {
color rgb <#(fred),#(fgreen),#(fblue)>
}
finish {
phong 1
}
}
}
SEE ALSO
pnmtoplainpnm(1) pamtable(1) ppm(1)
HISTORY
ppmtoarbtxt was added to Netpbm in Release 10.14 (March 2003). It existed under the name ppmtotxt since 1995.
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1995 by Peter Kirchgessner
DOCUMENT SOURCE
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source. The master documentation is at
http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppmtoarbtxt.html
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