1Ppmcolormask User Manual(0)                        Ppmcolormask User Manual(0)
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NAME

6       ppmcolormask - produce mask of areas of a certain color in a PPM file
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SYNOPSIS

10       ppmcolormask -color=color_list [ppmfile]
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12       ppmcolormask color [ppmfile]
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EXAMPLES

16           ppmcolormask -color red testimg.ppm >redmask.pbm
17           pamcomp background.ppm testimg.ppm -alpha=redmask.pbm >test.ppm
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DESCRIPTION

26       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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28       ppmcolormask reads a PPM file as input and produces a PBM (bitmap) file
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30       and is black in all places where the input file is a color indicated by
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33       The output of ppmcolormask is useful as an alpha mask input to pamcomp.
34       Note that you can generate such an alpha mask automatically as you con‐
35       vert to PNG format with pnmtopng(1).Useits-transparent option.
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37       ppmfile is the input file.  If you don't specify ppmfile, the input  is
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42       In the obsolete alternative syntax, specifying the color names a single
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45       ppmchange does a similar thing: it modifies an image by changing colors
46       you  specify  to  other  colors you specify.  The two programs give you
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49       To make a mask of an image's background, without having to tell it what
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OPTIONS

54       -color=color_list
55              This mandatory option specifies the colors that are to be masked
56              (where the image is one of these colors, the output mask will be
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72              color_list  is a list of colors separated by commas.  Each color
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74              the ppm_parsecolor() library routine ⟨libppm.html#colorname⟩  or
75              one of the Berlin-Kay color names ⟨libppm.html#berlinkay⟩ .   In
76              the  latter  case,  all colors that are better described by that
77              Berlin-Kay color name than any other are in the mask set.
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79              The algorithm ppmcolormask uses to determine to which  colors  a
80              Berlin-Kay  color  name  applies is based on a Sugeno-type fuzzy
81              inference system developed by  Kenan  Kalajdzic  in  2006.   The
82              fuzzy  model  consists  of partially linear membership functions
83              defined in the HSV color space.   Although  more  complex  algo‐
84              rithms  for fuzzy color matching exist, this algorithm is inten‐
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88              This  option  was new in Netpbm 10.34 (June 2006).  Before that,
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SEE ALSO

96       pambackground(1),  ppmchange(1),  pgmtoppm(1),  pamcomp(1), pbmmask(1),
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