NAME¶
ppmrainbow - Generate a rainbow
SYNOPSIS¶
ppmrainbow [
-width=number]
[
-height=number]
[
-tmpdir=directory] [
-verbose]
color ...
All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You may use two
hyphens instead of one to designate an option. You may use either white space
or equals signs between an option name and its value.
DESCRIPTION¶
ppmrainbow generates a PPM image that fades from one color to another to
another from left to right, like a rainbow. The colors are those you specify
on the command line, in that order. The first color is added again on the
right end of the image.
If you want a vertical or other non-horizontal rainbow, run the output through
pnmrotate.
One use for such a rainbow is to compose it with another image under an alpha
mask in order to add a rainbow area to another image. In fact, you can make
rainbow-colored text by using
pbmtext,
pnmcomp, and
ppmrainbow.
OPTIONS¶
- -width number
- The width in pixels of the output image.
Default is 600.
- -height number
- The height in pixels of the output image.
Default is 8.
- -tmpdir
- The directory specification of the directory
ppmrainbow is to use for temporary files.
Default is the value of the TMPDIR environment variable, or
/tmp if TMPDIR is not set.
- -verbose
- Print the "commands" (invocations of other Netpbm
programs) that ppmrainbow uses to create the image.
SEE ALSO¶
ppmmake(1),
pnmcomp(1),
pbmtext(1),
ppmfade(1),
ppm(5).
AUTHOR¶
Arjen Bax wrote
ppmrainbow in June 2001 and contributed it to the Netpbm
package. Bryan Henderson wrote this man page in July 2001.