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6 ppmcolormask - produce mask of areas of a certain color in a PPM file
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10 ppmcolormask -color=color_list [ppmfile]
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17 pamcomp background.ppm testimg.ppm -alpha=redmask.pbm >test.ppm
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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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34 pamcomp. Note that you don't need ppmcolormask and pamcomp if you are
35 ultimately converting to PNG with pnmtopng because the -transparent
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46 ppmchange does a similar thing: it modifies an image by changing colors
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76 ⟨libnetpbm_image.html#colorname⟩ or one of the Berlin-Kay color
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82 Berlin-Kay color name applies is based on a Sugeno-type fuzzy
83 inference system developed by Kenan Kalajdzic in 2006. The
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86 rithms for fuzzy color matching exist, this algorithm is inten‐
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