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.TH "pamhomography" 1 "04 December 2022" "netpbm documentation"




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.SH NAME
.PP
pamhomography - stretch/shrink a quadrilateral region of an image to
  another quadrilateral shape


.UN SYNOPSIS
.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP
\fBpamhomography\fP
  [\fB-from\fP=\fIcoords\fP]
  [\fB-to\fP=\fIcoords\fP]
  [\fB-mapfile\fP=\fImap_file\fP]
  [\fB-view\fP=\fIcoords\fP]
  [\fB-fill\fP=\fIcolor\fP]
  [\fB-verbose\fP
  [\fIpam_file\fP]
.PP
You can abbreviate any option to its shortest unique prefix. You can use
two hyphens instead of one to delimit an option. You can separate an option
from its value with whitespace instead of \f(CW=\fP.


.UN DESCRIPTION
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This program is part
of 
.UR http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/
Netpbm
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\&.
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\fBpamhomography\fP stretches and shrinks an arbitrary quadrilateral
portion of an input image you specify (not necessarily rectangular), into a
new quadrilateral shape you specify, producing a new image.
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You can do any
.UR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine_transformation#Image_transformation
affine image transformation
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\&: translation, reflection, scaling,
rotation, and shearing/skewing. However, \fBpamhomography\fP additionally can
do \fIbilinear\fP transforms, which means it can warp any quadrilateral to any
other quadrilateral, even when this mapping cannot be described using a single
set of linear equations. This can be useful, for example, for creating
perspective views of rectangular images or for reverse-mapping a perspective
view back to a rectangular projection.


.UN OPTIONS
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most
notably \fB-quiet\fP, see 
.UR index.html#commonoptions
Common Options
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\&), \fBpamhomography\fP recognizes the following command line
options:



.TP
\fB-from\fP=\fIcoords\fP
.sp
This defines the source quadrilateral. \fIcoords\fP is a list of four
  integer-valued (\fIx\fP, \fIy\fP) coordinates. If you do not specify the
  source with either \fB-from\fP or \fB-mapfile\fP, the source quadrilateral
  is the entire input image.


.TP
\fB-to\fP=\fIcoords\fP
.sp
This defines the target quadrilateral. \fIcoords\fP is a list of four
integer-valued (\fIx\fP, \fIy\fP) coordinates. If you do not specify the
target with either \fB-to\fP or \fB-mapfile\fP, the target quadrilateral is
the same as the entire input image.

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\fB-mapfile\fP=\fImap_file\fP
.sp
This names a text file that describes the mapping from the source to the
target quadrilateral. The file \fImap_file\fP must contain either eight
integer-valued (\fIx\fP, \fIy\fP) coordinates, being the four source
coordinates followed by the corresponding four target coordinates, or only
four (\fIx\fP, \fIy\fP) coordinates, being only the four target
coordinates. In the latter case, the source quadrilateral is taken to be the
four corners of the input image in clockwise order, starting from the upper
left.
.sp
Anything you specify with \fB-to\fP or \fB-from\fP overrides what is in
  this file.


.TP
\fB-view\fP=\fIcoords\fP
.sp
This defines the target view. \fIcoords\fP is a list of two integer-valued
(\fIx\fP, \fIy\fP) coordinates: the upper left and lower right boundaries,
respectively, of the pixels that will be visible in the output image. If
\fB-view\fP is not specified, the target view will fit precisely the target
quadrilateral.


.TP
\fB-fill\fP=\fIcolor\fP
.sp
This is the color with which the program fills all pixels that lie outside
of the target quadrilateral. Specify the color as described for the
.UR libnetpbm_image.html#colorname
 argument of the pnm_parsecolor() library routine
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\&.
.sp
The default is black, and for images with a transparency plane, transparent.



.TP
\fB-verbose\fP
This makes the program issue some informational messages about what it is
doing.


.PP
Cooordinates should normally be specified in clockwise order. The syntax is
fairly flexible: all characters other than the plus sign, minus sign, and
digits are treated as separators. Although coordinates need to be integers,
they may lie outside the image's boundary.

.UN PARAMETERS
.SH PARAMETERS
.PP
\fBpamhomography\fP's only parameter, \fIpam_file\fP, is the name of the
  file containing the input image. If you don't specify \fIpam_file\fP, the
  image comes from Standard Input.

  
.UN NOTES
.SH NOTES
.PP
The output image uses the same Netpbm format as the input image.
.PP
Simple transformations are best handled by other Netpbm programs, such as
those listed in the 
.UR #SEE-ALSO
\&'SEE ALSO'
.UE
\& section
below. Use \fBpamhomography\fP for more sophisticated transformations such as
perspective adjustments, rotations around an arbitrary point in the image,
extraction of non-rectangular quadrilaterals, shearings by coordinates rather
than by angle, and, in general, all transformations that are most easily
expressed as mapping four points in one image to four points in another
image.

.UN EXAMPLES
.SH EXAMPLES
.PP
The following examples use the
.UR park_row.ppm
park_row.ppm 
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\& test image, which is a
.UR https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:15_Park_Row_3.JPG
 photograph of New York City's Park Row Building
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\&, scaled to
441&times;640, converted to a PPM file, and redistributed under the terms of
the 
.UR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License
 GFDL
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\&.
.PP
The first example showcases the real power of bilinear transformations.
Assuming \fIpark_row_rect.map\fP has the following contents:

.nf\f(CW    (147, 51) (316, 105) (402, 595) (92, 560)
      (0,  0) (440,   0) (440, 639)  (0, 639)\fP
.fi
.PP
then

.nf\f(CW    pamhomography -mapfile park_row_rect.map park_row.ppm > park_row_rect.ppm\fP
.fi
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projects the building's facade from a perspective view to a rectilinear
front-on view. Remember that \fBpamhomography\fP ignores the parentheses and
commas used in \fIpark_row_rect.map\fP; they merely make the file more
human-readable. We equivalently could have written

.nf\f(CW    147 51 316 105 402 595 92 560 0 0 440 0 440 639 0 639\fP
.fi
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or any of myriad other variations.
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\fBpamhomography\fP can warp the image to a trapezoid to make it look like
it's leaning backwards in 3-D:

.nf\f(CW    pamhomography -to '50,0 390,0 440,200 0,200' park_row.ppm > park_row_trap.ppm\fP
.fi
.PP
As a very simple example,

.nf\f(CW    pamhomography -to '440,0 0,0 0,639 440,639' park_row.ppm > park_row_flip.ppm\fP
.fi
.PP
flips the image left-to-right. Note that in this case the target
quadrilateral's coordinates are listed in counterclockwise order because
that represents the correspondence between points (0, 0) &harr; (440, 0) and
(0, 639) &harr; (639, 0).
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Scaling is also straightforward. The following command scales down the
image from 441&times;640 to 341&times;540:

.nf\f(CW    pamhomography -to '0,0 340,0 340,539 0,539' park_row.ppm > park_row_small.ppm\fP
.fi
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Let's add 100 pixels of tan border to the above. We use \fB-view\fP and
\fB-fill\fP to accomplish that task:

.nf\f(CW    pamhomography -to '0,0 340,0 340,539 0,539' -view '-100,-100 440,639' -fill tan park_row.ppm > park_row_small_border.ppm\fP
.fi
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We can add a border without having to scale the image:

.nf\f(CW    pamhomography -view '-100,-100 540,739' -fill tan park_row.ppm > park_row_border.ppm\fP
.fi
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The \fB-view\fP option can also be used to extract a rectangle out of an
image, discarding the rest of the image:

.nf\f(CW    pamhomography -view '130,10 205,80' park_row.ppm > park_row_cut.ppm\fP
.fi
.PP
Specifying the same set of coordinates to \fB-from\fP and \fB-to\fP has
the same effect but also allows you to extract non-rectangular quadrilaterals
from an image:

.nf\f(CW    pamhomography -from '185,300 310,325 320,425 180,405' -to '185,300 310,325 320,425 180,405' park_row.ppm > park_row_cut_2.ppm\fP
.fi
.PP
Rotation is doable but takes some effort. The challenge is that you need to
compute the rotated coordinates yourself. The matrix expression to rotate
points \e((x_1, y_1)\e) \e((x_2, y_2)\e), \e((x_3, y_3)\e), and \e((x_4, y_4)\e)
clockwise by \e(\etheta\e) degrees around point \e((c_x, c_y)\e) is
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\e[ \ebegin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 & c_x \e\e 0 & 1 & c_y \e\e 0 & 0
& 1 \eend{bmatrix} \ebegin{bmatrix} \ecos \etheta & -\esin \etheta & 0
\e\e \esin \etheta & \ecos \etheta & 0 \e\e 0 & 0 & 1 \eend{bmatrix}
\ebegin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 & -c_x \e\e 0 & 1 & -c_y \e\e 0 & 0
& 1 \eend{bmatrix} \ebegin{bmatrix} x_1 & x_2 & x_3 & x_4 \e\e y_1
& y_2 & y_3 & y_4 \e\e 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 \eend{bmatrix}
\equad. \e]
.PP
For example, to rotate \fIpark_row.ppm\fP 30&deg; clockwise around (220,
320) you would compute
.PP
\e[ \ebegin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 & 220 \e\e 0 & 1 & 320 \e\e 0 & 0
& 1 \eend{bmatrix} \ebegin{bmatrix} \ecos 30^{\ecirc} & -\esin 30^{\ecirc}
& 0 \e\e \esin 30^{\ecirc} & \ecos 30^{\ecirc} & 0 \e\e 0 & 0 & 1
\eend{bmatrix} \ebegin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 & -220 \e\e 0 & 1 & -320 \e\e
0 & 0 & 1 \eend{bmatrix} \ebegin{bmatrix} 0 & 440 & 440 & 0
\e\e 0 & 0 & 639 & 639 \e\e 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 \eend{bmatrix} =
\ebegin{bmatrix} 189.4744 & 570.5256 & 251.0256 & -130.0256 \e\e
-67.1281 & 152.8719 & 706.2621 & 486.2621 \e\e 1.0000 & 1.0000
& 1.0000 & 1.0000 \eend{bmatrix} \equad, \e]
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round these coordinates to integers, transpose the matrix, and produce the
following map file, \fIpark_row_rot30.map\fP:

.nf\f(CW     189  -67
     571  153
     251  706
    -130  486\fP
.fi
.PP
(These are the 'to' coordinates; we use the default, full-image
\&'from' coordinates.) The mapping then works as in all of the
preceding examples:

.nf\f(CW    pamhomography -mapfile park_row_rot30.map park_row.ppm > park_row_rot30.ppm\fP
.fi


.UN SEE-ALSO
.SH SEE ALSO


.IP \(bu

.BR "pamcut" (1)\c
\&
.IP \(bu

.BR "pamenlarge" (1)\c
\&
.IP \(bu

.BR "pamflip" (1)\c
\&
.IP \(bu

.BR "pamperspective" (1)\c
\&
.IP \(bu

.BR "pamscale" (1)\c
\&
.IP \(bu

.BR "pamstretch" (1)\c
\&
.IP \(bu

.BR "pam" (1)\c
\&
.IP \(bu

.BR "pnmmargin" (1)\c
\&
.IP \(bu

.BR "pnmpad" (1)\c
\&
.IP \(bu

.BR "pnmrotate" (1)\c
\&
.IP \(bu

.BR "pnmshear" (1)\c
\&



.UN HISTORY
.SH HISTORY
.PP
\fBpamhomography\fP was new in Netpbm 10.94 (March 2021).
  

.UN AUTHOR
.SH AUTHOR
.PP
Copyright \(co 2020 Scott
Pakin, \fIscott+pbm@pakin.org\fP


.UN index
.SH Table of Contents


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.UR #SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS
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.UR #DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
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.UR #OPTIONS
OPTIONS
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.UR #PARAMETERS
PARAMETERS
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.UR #NOTES
NOTES
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.UR #EXAMPLES
EXAMPLES
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.UR #SEE-ALSO
SEE ALSO
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.UR #HISTORY
HISTORY
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.UR #AUTHOR
AUTHOR
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.SH DOCUMENT SOURCE
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source.  The master documentation is at
.IP
.B http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamhomography.html
.PP