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- ppmquant(1) PBM Plus ppmquant(1)
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- NAME
- ppmquant - quantize the colors in a portable pixmap down to
- a specified number
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- SYNOPSIS
- ppmquant [-floyd|-fs] <ncolors> [ppmfile]
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- DESCRIPTION
- Reads a portable pixmap as input. Chooses <ncolors> colors
- to best represent the image, maps the existing colors to the
- new ones, and writes a portable pixmap as output.
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- The quantization method is Heckbert's "median cut".
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- The -floyd flag adds a Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion step.
- This may give better results on images where the unmodified
- quantization has banding or other artifacts. It takes maybe
- 20% more CPU time.
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- All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique pre-
- fix.
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- REFERENCES
- "Color Image Quantization for Frame Buffer Display" by Paul
- Heckbert, SIGGRAPH '82 Proceedings, page 297.
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- SEE ALSO
- ppmcscale(1), ppm(5)
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- AUTHOR
- Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
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- Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
- software and its documentation for any purpose and without
- fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright
- notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
- notice and this permission notice appear in supporting docu-
- mentation. This software is provided "as is" without
- express or implied warranty.
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- Printed 5/25/90 18 May 1989 1
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