pnminterp

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 10 April 2000
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NAME

pnminterp - scale up portable anymap by interpolating between pixels.

SYNOPSIS

pnminterp [-blackedge] [-dropedge] N [pnmfile]

You can use the minimum unique abbreviation of the options.

DESCRIPTION

Pnminterp scales up pictures, producing output with one NxN pixel for each pixel in the original image. Where pnminterp improves over using pnmscale/pnmenlarge for this is that it interpolates between pixels, producing better-looking output.

To scale up to non-integer pixel sizes, e.g. 2.5, try pnminterp-gen(1) instead.

OPTIONS

The options let you select alternative methods of dealing with the right/bottom edges of the picture. Since the interpolation is done between the top-left corners of the scaled-up pixels, it's not obvious what to do with the right/bottom edges. The default behaviour is to scale those up without interpolation (more precisely, the right edge is only interpolated vertically, and the bottom edge is only interpolated horizontally), but there are two other possibilities, listed below.

-blackedge: interpolate to black at right/bottom edges.
-dropedge: drop one (source) pixel at right/bottom edges. This is arguably more logical than the default behaviour, but it means producing output which is a slightly odd size.

BUGS

Usually produces fairly ugly output for PBMs. For most PBM input you'll probably want to reduce the `noise' first using something like pnmnlfilt(1).

Always produces images with a maxval of 255, which may lose sample resolution if the input is (say) a 16-bit PGM.

AUTHOR

Russell Marks (russell.marks@ntlworld.com).

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