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Revision: 1.2
Committed: Fri Apr 30 17:00:28 2004 UTC (20 years ago) by greg
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Log Message:
Added tone-mapping to ra_bmp and fixed but in RLE8 BMP encoding

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1 .TH RA_BMP 1 3/25/04 RADIANCE
2 .SH NAME
3 ra_bmp - convert RADIANCE picture to/from Windows BMP image
4 .SH SYNOPSIS
5 .B ra_bmp
6 [
7 .B \-b
8 ][
9 .B "\-g gamma"
10 ][
11 .B "\-e spec"
12 ][
13 .B "-p xr yr xg yg xb yb xw yw"
14 ]
15 [
16 [
17 .B input|-
18 [
19 .B output
20 ]
21 ]
22 .br
23 .B ra_bmp
24 .B \-r
25 [
26 .B "\-g gamma"
27 ][
28 .B "\-e +/-stops"
29 ]
30 [
31 [
32 .B input|-
33 [
34 .B output
35 ]
36 ]
37 .SH DESCRIPTION
38 .I Ra_bmp
39 converts between RADIANCE and a Windows BMP image.
40 During forward conversion, the
41 .I \-b
42 option produces 8-bit grayscale output rather than 24-bit RGB.
43 The
44 .I \-g
45 option specifies the exponent used in monitor gamma correction;
46 the default value is 2.2.
47 The
48 .I \-e
49 option specifies a tone-mapping method or exposure compensation.
50 If the argument is one of the special words "auto", "human", or "linear",
51 the image will be tone-mapped with histogram adjustment,
52 human vision simulation, or an averaged linear exposure,
53 respectively.
54 (These words may be abbreviated by one or more letters.)\0
55 Otherwise, the exposure specification is interpreted as a
56 linear compensation value in integer f-stops, which must
57 be proceeded by a '+' or '-'.
58 If tone-mapping is applied, then CRT output
59 primaries may also be specified with the
60 .I \-p
61 option.
62 .PP
63 The
64 .I \-r
65 option invokes a reverse conversion, from a Windows BMP image
66 to a RADIANCE picture.
67 Tone-mapping and monitor primaries are not
68 supported for reverse conversion.
69 .PP
70 .I Ra_bmp
71 can accept 16-bit or color-mapped BMP files on input,
72 but cannot not produce them on output.
73 .PP
74 A hyphen ('-') may be specified to indicate standard input for
75 either forward or reverse conversion so that an output file may be
76 specified.
77 If the BMP input is taken from the standard input or sent to the
78 standard output, then the scanlines may be reversed from their
79 usual ordering.
80 This sometimes causes difficulties for programs attempting
81 to interpret the resulting RADIANCE picture or BMP image, which
82 may be rejected or displayed inverted.
83 .SH AUTHOR
84 Greg Ward
85 .SH "SEE ALSO"
86 pfilt(1), ra_ppm(1), ra_pr(1), ra_pr24(1), ra_t8(1), ra_t16(1),
87 ra_tiff(1), ximage(1)