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Revision: 1.14
Committed: Mon Aug 12 02:26:46 2019 UTC (5 years, 9 months ago) by greg
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Changes since 1.13: +10 -1 lines
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Added support for trailing unary operations on final matrix result

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1 greg 1.14 .\" RCSid "$Id: rmtxop.1,v 1.13 2019/08/12 01:20:25 greg Exp $"
2 greg 1.1 .TH RMTXOP 1 7/8/97 RADIANCE
3     .SH NAME
4 greg 1.10 rmtxop - concatenate, add, multiply, divide, transpose, scale, and convert matrices
5 greg 1.1 .SH SYNOPSIS
6     .B rmtxop
7     [
8     .B \-v
9     ][
10 greg 1.3 .B \-f[afdc]
11 greg 1.1 ][
12     .B \-t
13     ][
14     .B "\-s sf .."
15     ][
16     .B "\-c ce .."
17     ]
18     .B m1
19     [
20 greg 1.13 .B ".+*/"
21 greg 1.1 ]
22     .B ".."
23     .SH DESCRIPTION
24     .I Rmtxop
25 greg 1.10 loads and concatenates or adds/multiplies/divides
26     together component matrix files given on the command line.
27 greg 1.1 Each file must have a header containing the following variables:
28     .sp
29     .nf
30     NROWS={number of rows}
31     NCOLS={number of columns}
32     NCOMP={number of components}
33     FORMAT={ascii|float|double|32-bit_rle_rgbe|32-bit_rle_xyze}
34     .sp
35     .fi
36     The number of components indicates that each matrix element is actually
37     composed of multiple elements, most commonly an RGB triple.
38     This is essentially dividing the matrix into planes, where each component
39     participates in a separate calculation.
40     If an appropriate header is not present, it may be added with a call to
41     .I rcollate(1).
42     A matrix may be read from the standard input using a hyphen by itself ('-')
43     in the appropriate place on the command line.
44     .PP
45 greg 1.9 Any of the matrix inputs may be read from a command
46     instead of a file by
47     using quotes and a beginning exclamation point ('!').
48     .PP
49 greg 1.1 Two special cases are handled for component matrices that are either
50     XML files containing BTDF data, or Radiance picture files.
51     In the first case, a BSDF library is used to load and interpret the
52     transmission matrix.
53 greg 1.9 (XML files cannot be read from the standard input or from a command.)\0
54 greg 1.1 In the second case, the RGBE or XYZE values are loaded in a 3-component
55     matrix where the number of columns match the X-dimension of the picture, and
56     the number of rows match the Y-dimension.
57     The picture must be in standard pixel ordering, and the first row
58 greg 1.7 is at the top with the first column on the left.
59 greg 1.1 .PP
60     Before each file, the
61     .I \-t
62     and
63     .I \-s
64     or
65     .I \-c
66     options may be used to modify the matrix.
67     The
68     .I \-t
69     option transposes the matrix, swapping rows and columns.
70     The
71     .I \-s
72     option applies the given scalar factor(s) to the elements of the matrix.
73     If only one factor is provided,
74     it will be used for all components.
75     If multiple factors are given, their number must match the number of matrix
76     components.
77     Alternatively, the
78     .I \-c
79     option may be used to "transform" the element values, possibly changing
80     the number of components in the matrix.
81     For example, a 3-component matrix can be transformed into a single-component
82     matrix by using
83     .I \-c
84     with three coefficients.
85     A four-component matrix can be turned into a two-component matrix using 8
86     coefficients, where the first four coefficients will be used to compute
87     the first new component, and the second four coefficients
88     yield the second new component.
89     Note that the number of coefficients must be an even multiple of the number
90     of original components.
91     The
92     .I \-s
93     and
94     .I \-c
95     options are mutually exclusive, insofar as they cannot be applied together
96     to the same input matrix.
97     .PP
98     If present, the second and subsequent matrices on the command
99 greg 1.10 line are concatenated to the result unless separated by a plus ('+'),
100     asterisk ('*'), or forward slash ('/') symbol,
101     in which case the matrix elements are added, multiplied, or divided together,
102     respectively.
103     (Note that the asterisk must be quoted or escaped in most shells.)\0
104     In the case of addition, the two matrices involved must have the same number
105     of components.
106 greg 1.11 For element-wise multiplication and division, the second matrix is
107     permitted instead to have a single component per element, which will be
108     applied equally to all components of the first matrix.
109 greg 1.10 If element-wise division is specified, any zero elements in the second
110     matrix will result in a warning and the corresponding component(s) in the
111     first matrix will be set to zero.
112     .PP
113 greg 1.1 The number of components in the new matrix after applying any
114     .I -c
115     transform must agree with the prior result.
116     For concatenation (matrix multiplication), the number of columns
117     in the prior result must equal the number of rows in the new matrix, and
118     the result will have the number of rows of the previous and the number
119     of columns of the new matrix.
120 greg 1.10 In the case of addition, multiplication, and division,
121     the number of rows and columns of the prior result and the
122     new matrix must match, and will not be changed by the operation.
123 greg 1.1 .PP
124 greg 1.14 A final transpose or scaling/transform operation may be applied to
125     the results by appending the
126     .I \-t
127     and
128     .I \-s
129     or
130     .I \-c
131     options after the last matrix on the command line.
132     .PP
133 greg 1.1 Results are sent to the standard output.
134 greg 1.4 By default, the values will be written in the lowest resolution format
135 greg 1.6 among the inputs, but the
136 greg 1.1 .I \-f
137 greg 1.4 option may be used to explicitly output components
138     as ASCII (-fa), binary doubles (-fd), floats (-ff), or RGBE colors (-fc).
139 greg 1.1 In the latter case, the actual matrix dimensions are written in the resolution
140     string rather than the header.
141     Also, matrix results written as Radiance pictures must have either one
142     or three components.
143     In the one-component case, the output is written as grayscale.
144     .PP
145     The
146     .I \-v
147     option turns on verbose reporting, which announces each operation.
148     .SH EXAMPLES
149     To concatenate two matrix files with a BTDF between them and write
150     the result as binary double:
151     .IP "" .2i
152     rmtxop -fd view.vmx blinds.xml exterior.dmx > dcoef.dmx
153     .PP
154     To convert a BTDF matrix into a Radiance picture:
155     .IP "" .2i
156     rmtxop -fc blinds.xml > blinds.hdr
157     .PP
158     To scale a matrix by 4 and add it to the transpose of another matrix:
159     .IP "" .2i
160     rmtxop -s 4 left.mtx + -t right.mtx > result.mtx
161     .PP
162     To send the elements of a binary matrix to
163     .I rcalc(1)
164     for further processing:
165     .IP "" .2i
166 greg 1.5 rmtxop -fa orig.mtx | rcollate -ho -oc 1 | rcalc [operations]
167 greg 1.13 .SH NOTES
168     Matrix multiplication is associative but not commutative, so order
169     matters to the result.
170     .I Rmtxop
171     takes advantage of the associative property to evaluate the
172     implicit equation from right to left when this reduces the
173     number of basic operations.
174     If the rightmost matrix is a column vector for example, it is
175     much faster to concatenate from the right, and the result should
176     be the same.
177     This only applies to matrix multiplication.
178     Element-wise addition, multiplication, and division are still
179     evaluated from left to right.
180 greg 1.1 .SH AUTHOR
181     Greg Ward
182     .SH "SEE ALSO"
183 greg 1.5 cnt(1), getinfo(1), histo(1), neaten(1), rcalc(1), rcollate(1),
184 greg 1.12 rcontrib(1), rfluxmtx(1), rlam(1),
185     rsplit(1), tabfunc(1), total(1), wrapBSDF(1)