ppmarith

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 08 August 1989
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NAME

ppmarith - perform arithmetic on two portable pixmaps

SYNOPSIS

ppmarith -add|-subtract|-multiply ppmfile1 ppmfile2

DESCRIPTION

Reads two portable bitmaps as input. Performs the specified arithmetic operation, and produces a portable bitmap as output. The two input pixmaps must be the same width and height.

The arithmetic is performed between corresponding pixels in the two bitmaps, with maxval as 1.0, black as 0.0, and a linear scale in between. Results that fall outside of [0..1) are truncated.

All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.

AUTHOR

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