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Revision: 1.7
Committed: Tue Oct 1 01:16:26 2024 UTC (7 months ago) by greg
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feat(ra_xyze): added accurate conversion of hyperspectral pictures on input

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1 .\" RCSid "$Id: ra_xyze.1,v 1.6 2010/12/16 21:34:41 greg Exp $"
2 .TH RA_XYZE 1 5/30/96 RADIANCE
3 .SH NAME
4 ra_xyze - convert between RADIANCE RGBE and XYZE formats
5 .SH SYNOPSIS
6 .B ra_xyze
7 [
8 .B \-r
9 ][
10 .B "\-e exposure"
11 ][
12 .B \-o
13 ][
14 .B \-c
15 |
16 .B \-u
17 ][
18 .B "\-p xr yr xg yg xb yb xw yw"
19 ]
20 [
21 .B input
22 [
23 .B output
24 ]
25 ]
26 .SH DESCRIPTION
27 .I Ra_xyze
28 converts between RADIANCE RGBE (red,green,blue,exponent) and XYZE
29 (CIE X,Y,Z,exponent) formats.
30 The
31 .I \-e
32 option specifies an exposure compensation, which may be given as
33 a decimal multiplier or in f-stops (powers of two).
34 The
35 .I \-o
36 option may be used to specify original units, to which the exposure
37 compensation is applied.
38 Otherwise, the multiplier is in addition to any previous exposure adjustment.
39 By default,
40 .I ra_xyze
41 produces a flat XYZE RADIANCE picture file from any type of RADIANCE
42 input picture.
43 To override these defaults, the
44 .I \-c
45 option may be used to specify run-length encoded output,
46 or the
47 .I \-u
48 option may be used to specify a flat output.
49 .PP
50 The
51 .I \-r
52 option causes
53 .I ra_xyze
54 to produce a run-length encoded RGBE file instead, unless
55 .I \-u
56 is given, also, when it will produce a flat RGBE file.
57 The
58 .I \-p
59 option may be used to override the standard RADIANCE RGB primary
60 colors to tailor the image for a particular output device or
61 representation.
62 The eight floating-point arguments to this option are the 1931
63 CIE (x,y) chromaticity coordinates of the three RGB primaries
64 plus the white point, in that order.
65 The new primaries will be recorded in the header of the output file,
66 so that the original information may be fully recovered later.
67 It is not necessary that the input file be in XYZE format.
68 Th
69 .I \-r
70 option may therefore be used to convert from one RGB primary
71 representation to another using the
72 .I \-p
73 option.
74 .PP
75 If the output file is missing, the standard output is used.
76 If the input file is missing as well, the standard input is used.
77 .SH NOTES
78 The CIE standard used is the 1931 2-degree observer, and the
79 correct output representation relies on the original RADIANCE
80 input description being defined properly in terms of the standard
81 RADIANCE RGB primaries, whose CIE (x,y) chromaticity values are
82 defined in the header file in src/common/color.h.
83 In this same file is a standard for the luminous efficacy of white
84 light (WHTEFFICACY), which is used as a conversion between lumens
85 and watts throughout RADIANCE.
86 This same factor is applied by
87 .I ra_xyze
88 when converting between the radiometric units of the RGBE format
89 and the photometric units of the XYZE format.
90 The purpose of this factor is to ensure that the Y component of
91 the CIE representation is luminance in units of candelas/meter^2.
92 .PP
93 Most of the RADIANCE picture filters should work uniformly on either
94 RGBE or XYZE files, so it is not necessary to convert back to RGBE
95 format except for conversion or display, in which case the correct
96 primaries for the chosen output device should be specified with the
97 .I \-p
98 option if they are known.
99 .PP
100 Similar to the
101 .I ra_rgbe(1)
102 tool,
103 .I ra_xyze
104 silently converts hyperspectral pictures (.hsr) on input,
105 but does so more accurately (and slowly) than
106 .I ra_rgbe.
107 .SH EXAMPLES
108 To convert RGBE output from
109 .I rpict(1)
110 into run-length encoded XYZE format:
111 .IP "" .2i
112 rpict [options] scene.oct | ra_xyze \-c > scene_xyz.hdr
113 .PP
114 To prepare a RADIANCE picture for display on a calibrated NTSC monitor:
115 .IP "" .2i
116 ra_xyze \-r \-p .670 .330 .210 .710 .140 .080 .333 .333 stand.hdr ntsc.hdr
117 .SH AUTHOR
118 Greg Ward
119 .SH BUGS
120 Any color correction applied to the original image is not removed
121 or translated by
122 .I ra_xyze,
123 and it may result in color shifts in the output.
124 If color preservation is important and the correction is unwanted,
125 it is best to remove it with
126 .I pfilt(1)
127 using the
128 .I \-er,
129 .I \-eg
130 and
131 .I \-eb
132 options first.
133 (Simply look at the header and apply the reciprocal primaries of all
134 COLORCORR= lines multiplied together.)
135 Better still, get the picture before color correction is applied.
136 .SH "SEE ALSO"
137 pfilt(1), pvalue(1), ra_rgbe(1), rpict(1)