Manual: ppmwheel

Ppmwheel User Manual(1)				   General Commands Manual			     Ppmwheel User Manual(1)

NAME
       ppmwheel - make a PPM image of a color wheel

SYNOPSIS
       ppmwheel diameter [{-huevalue | -huesaturation}] [-maxval=N]

DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       ppmwheel	 produces  a PPM image of a color wheel of the specified diameter inside a white square just large enough to
       hold it.

       The color wheel is based on the HSV color model.	 Hues are distributed
	 angularly around the circle and the values and saturations are distributed
	 radially.

       You can generate three kinds of color wheel:

       •      Hue-value: Select this with a -huevalue option.

	      The saturation is 100% everywhere.  The value goes from zero to 100%
		linearly, from the center of the wheel to the edge.  So the center is black.

	      Hence, the image consists of all of the secondary colors based on the
		red, green, and blue primary colors.  A secondary color is one that is
		composed of light of at most two of the three primary colors.

       •      Hue-saturation: Select this with a -huesaturation option.

	      The value is 100% everywhere.  The saturation goes from zero to 100%
		linearly, from the center of the wheel to the edge.  So the center is white.

       •      Ppmcirc: Select this by not specifying any other wheel type option.

	      The saturation is 100% everywhere.  The value is a strange function of
		the distance from the center, increasing as the square root of the distance
		until halfway out, then decreasing as the 8th root of the distance the rest
		of the way.  We don't know what the point of this is, but it is what the
		program Ppmcirc by Peter Kirchgessner in 1995 does, and was the only option
		in ppmwheel from its inception in 2003 to 2019.

ARGUMENTS
       You must specify one non-option argument: the radius of the color wheel in pixels.

       This is also the height and width of the output image.

OPTIONS
       In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably  -quiet,  see	  Common Options  ),
       ppmwheel recognizes the following command line options:

       -huevalue

	      This selects a hue-value color wheel.

	      This option was new in Netpbm 10.86 (March 2019).

       -huesaturation

	      This selects a hue-saturation color wheel.

	      This option was new in Netpbm 10.86 (March 2019).

       -maxval=N

	      This selects the maxval for the image.  The default is 255.

	      This option was new in Netpbm 10.86 (March 2019).

SEE ALSO
       ppmcie(1), ppmrainbow(1), ppm(1)

HISTORY
       ppmwheel was added to Netpbm in Release 10.14 (March 2003).

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/ppmwheel.html

netpbm documentation				      03 February 2019				     Ppmwheel User Manual(1)