1Pgmnoise User Manual(0)                                Pgmnoise User Manual(0)
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NAME

6       pgmnoise - create a PGM image made up of white noise
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SYNOPSIS

10       pgmnoise width height
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12       [-maxval=n] [-randomseed=integer]
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14       Minimum  unique  abbreviations  of  option are acceptable.  You may use
15       double hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options.  You may use
16       white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from
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DESCRIPTION

22       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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24       pgmnoise creates a PGM image that  is  made  up  of  pixels  of  random
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27       You specify the dimensions of the image with the width and height argu‐
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30       The randomness in the image is limited before  Netpbm  10.37  (December
31       2006)  --  if you run the program twice in the same second, you may get
32       identical output.
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OPTIONS

37       In addition to the options common to all programs  based  on  libnetpbm
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39        Common  Options  ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), pgmnoise recognizes the
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53              This is the seed for the random number generator that  generates
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59              By default, pgmnoise uses a seed derived from the  time  of  day
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63              This option was new in Netpbm 10.45 (December 2008).
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SEE ALSO

69       pgm(1)
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AUTHOR

73       Copyright (C) 1993 by Frank Neumann
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DOCUMENT SOURCE

76       This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman'  from  HTML
77       source.  The master documentation is at
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