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2 .TH FALSECOLOR 1 11/15/93 RADIANCE
3 .SH NAME
4 falsecolor - make a false color RADIANCE picture
5 .SH SYNOPSIS
6 .B falsecolor
7 [
8 .B "\-i input"
9 ][
10 .B "\-p picture"
11 ][
12 .B "\-cb | \-cl"
13 ][
14 .B \-e
15 ][
16 .B "\-s scale"
17 ][
18 .B "\-l label"
19 ][
20 .B "\-n ndivs"
21 ][
22 .B "\-log decades"
23 ][
24 .B "\-m mult"
25 ][
26 .B "\-r redv"
27 ][
28 .B "\-g grnv"
29 ][
30 .B "\-b bluv"
31 ]
32 .SH DESCRIPTION
33 .I Falsecolor
34 produces a false color picture for lighting analysis.
35 Input is a rendered Radiance picture.
36 .PP
37 By default, luminance is displayed on a linear scale from 0 to 1000 nits, where
38 dark areas are blue and brighter areas move through the spectrum to red.
39 A different scale can be given with the
40 .I \-s
41 option.
42 The default multiplier is 179, which converts from radiance or irradiance
43 to luminance or illuminance, respectively.
44 A different multiplier can be given with
45 .I \-m
46 to get daylight factors or whatever.
47 For a logarithmic rather than a linear mapping, the
48 .I \-log
49 option can be used, where
50 .I decades
51 is the number of decades below the maximum scale desired.
52 .PP
53 A legend is produced for the new image with a label given by the
54 .I \-l
55 option.
56 The default label is "Nits", which is appropriate for standard Radiance
57 images.
58 If the
59 .I -i
60 option of
61 .I rpict(1)
62 was used to produce the image, then the appropriate label would be "Lux".
63 .PP
64 If contour lines are desired rather than just false color, the
65 .I \-cl
66 option can be used.
67 These lines can be placed over another Radiance picture using the
68 .I -p
69 option.
70 If the input picture is given with
71 .I \-ip
72 instead of
73 .I \-i,
74 then it will be used both as the source of values and as the picture
75 to overlay with contours.
76 The
77 .I \-cb
78 option produces contour bands instead of lines, where the thickness of
79 the bands is related to the rate of change in the image.
80 The
81 .I \-n
82 option can be used to change the number of contours (and corresponding
83 legend entries) from the default value of 8.
84 .PP
85 The
86 .I \-e
87 option causes extrema points to be printed on the brightest and
88 darkest pixels of the input picture.
89 .PP
90 The remaining options,
91 .I "\-r, \-g,"
92 and
93 .I \-b
94 are for changing the mapping of values to colors.
95 These are expressions of the variable
96 .I v,
97 where
98 .I v
99 varies from 0 to 1.
100 These options are not recommended for the casual user.
101 .PP
102 If no
103 .I \-i
104 or
105 .I \-ip
106 option is used, input is taken from the standard input.
107 The output image is always written to standard output, which should
108 be redirected.
109 .SH EXAMPLES
110 To create a false color image directly from
111 .I rpict(1):
112 .IP "" .2i
113 rpict -vf default.vp scene.oct | falsecolor > scene.pic
114 .PP
115 To create a logarithmic contour plot of illuminance values on a
116 Radiance image:
117 .IP "" .2i
118 rpict -i -vf default.vp scene.oct > irrad.pic
119 .br
120 rpict -vf default.vp scene.oct > rad.pic
121 .br
122 falsecolor -i irrad.pic -p rad.pic -cl -log 2 -l Lux > lux.pic
123 .SH AUTHOR
124 Greg Ward
125 .SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
126 Work on this program was initiated and sponsored by the LESO
127 group at EPFL in Switzerland.
128 .SH "SEE ALSO"
129 getinfo(1), pcomb(1), pcompos(1), pextrem(1), pfilt(1), pflip(1), protate(1),
130 psign(1), rpict(1), ximage(1)