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Revision: 1.1
Committed: Sat Sep 17 05:14:14 2005 UTC (18 years, 8 months ago) by greg
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rad3R8
Log Message:
Created ran2tiff script for batch animation exposure and conversion

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2     .TH RAN2TIFF 1 9/16/2005 RADIANCE
3     .SH NAME
4     ran2tiff - expose and convert a RADIANCE animation to TIFF frames
5     .SH SYNOPSIS
6     .B ran2tiff
7     [
8     .B "-W prev_frame_wt"
9     ][
10     .B "-H histo"
11     ][
12     .B "-D dir"
13     ]
14     [
15     .B "pcond opts"
16     ]
17     [
18     .B "ra_tiff opts"
19     ]
20     .B "frame1.pic frame2.pic .."
21     .SH DESCRIPTION
22     .I Ran2tiff
23     takes an animated sequence of Radiance pictures and converts them by calling
24     .I pcond(1)
25     and
26     .I ra_tiff(1)
27     in such a way that exposure changes gradually
28     from one frame to the next.
29     It accomplishes this by computing a histogram for each image and
30     blending it with a weighted histogram from the previous frame,
31     where the weight is set by the
32     .I \-W
33     option, or 0.9 by default.
34     A value of 0.5 would mean that the previous frame carries 1/2 the weight
35     of the current one, and the frame before that 1/4, 1/8 before that,
36     and so on.
37     .PP
38     The
39     .I \-H
40     option specifies a histogram file to be used to ensure continuous
41     exposure between the current sequence and one before it.
42     If the file does not exist, it will be created at the end of
43     the conversion.
44     If it does exist, its contents will be used as the histogram
45     at the end of the previous sequence.
46     .PP
47     The
48     .I \-D
49     option may be used to specify an output directory for the resulting
50     TIFF frames.
51     Otherwise, the current directory will be used.
52     The output file names will correspond to the input names, but
53     with a ".tif" suffix.
54     .PP
55     Ran2tiff also accepts the standard options for
56     .I pcond
57     and
58     .I ra_tiff,
59     though output to LogLuv TIFF formats is not supported.
60     (There would be no point in adjusting the exposure if the output were HDR.)\0
61     .SH EXAMPLE
62     To convert a sequence of frames using a rapid human exposure response
63     and LZW compression on the output:
64     .IP "" .2i
65     ran2tiff -W 0.7 -h -z frame*.pic
66     .PP
67     Similar to
68     .I fieldcomb(1),
69     this program works well with the "TRANSFER" facility of
70     .I ranimate(1).
71     .SH AUTHOR
72     Greg Ward
73     .SH "SEE ALSO"
74     fieldcomb(1), getinfo(1), pcond(1), pfilt(1), phisto(1),
75     ra_tiff(1), ranimate(1), rpict(1)