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NAME
ppmfade - generate a transition between two image files using special
effects
SYNOPSIS
ppmfade [-f first.ppm] [-l last.ppm] [-mix|-spread|-shift| -re-
lief|-oil|-edge|-bentley|-block] [-base name]
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
ppmfadegenerates a transition between either two input images or be-
tween one input image and black. You can use the 30 intermediate im-
ages generated to show a smooth transition between segments of a movie.
The input and output images are in the PPM format. If you specify both
input images, they should both be the same size. If you want to fade
from black to an image, specify only the last image. If you want to
fade from an image to black, specify only the first image. ppmfade
names the resulting image files base.nnnn.ppm, where nnnn is a number
varying between 0001 and 0030 and base is what you specify with via the
-base option (default fade).
Another way to convert by steps from one image to another is morphing.
You can use xmorph to do that.
OPTIONS
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably -quiet, see
Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), ppmfade recognizes the
following command line options:
-f first.ppm
This is the image file (PPM format) to be used at the beginning
of the transition. If you don't specify this, the fade will
start from black.
-l last.ppm
This is the image file (PPM format) to be used at the ending of
the transition. If you don't specify this, the fade will end
with black.
-mix The two images are superimposed with the brightness of the first
image decreasing from full to none and the brightness of the fi-
nal image increasing from none to full. The transition is qua-
dratic in brightness with faster transition in the beginning and
slower at the end.
-spread
The pixels in the first image will be moved (spread) further and
further from their original location and then moved into the
proper location in the final image. This is the default transi-
tion.
-shift The pixels in the first image will be shifted further and fur-
ther horizontally from their original location and then moved
into the proper location in the final image.
-relief
The first image is faded to a Laplacian relief filtered version
of the first image. This is then faded to a Laplacian relief
filtered version of the second image and finally faded to the
final image.
-oil The first image is faded to an "oil transfer" version of the
first image. This is then faded to an "oil transfer" version of
the second image and finally faded to the final image.
-edge The first image is faded to an edge detected version of the
first image. This is then faded to an edge detected version of
the second image and finally faded to the final image.
-bentley
The first image is faded to a "Bentley Effect" version of the
first image. This is then faded to a "Bentley Effect" version
of the second image and finally faded to the final image.
-block The first image is defocused to small blocks. The small blocks
are converted to match a defocused version of the last image.
The block version of the last image is then focused to the final
image.
-base name
This forms part of the output filenames, as described above.
EXAMPLES
ppmfade -f teapot.ppm -l pyr.ppm
Fade from teapot.ppm to pyr.ppm generating fade.0001.ppm to
fade.0030.ppm using the "spread" transition.
ppmfade -l teapot.ppm
Fade from black to teapot.ppm generating fade.0001.ppm to
fade.0030.ppm.
ppmfade -f teapot.ppm -base end
Fade from teapot.ppm to black generating end.0001.ppm to end.0030.ppm.
SEE ALSO
tontsc manual, sgifade manual, smart_vfr manual, xmorph manual, ppm(1)
AUTHOR
Bryan Henderson, Olympia WA; April 2000
Inspired by and intended as a replacement for pbmfade (not a Netpbm
program) by Wesley C. Barris.
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/ppmfade.html
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