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Revision: 1.10
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Added element-wise multiplication and division to rmtxop command

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1 .\" RCSid "$Id: rmtxop.1,v 1.9 2015/05/04 20:53:21 greg Exp $"
2 .TH RMTXOP 1 7/8/97 RADIANCE
3 .SH NAME
4 rmtxop - concatenate, add, multiply, divide, transpose, scale, and convert matrices
5 .SH SYNOPSIS
6 .B rmtxop
7 [
8 .B \-v
9 ][
10 .B \-f[afdc]
11 ][
12 .B \-t
13 ][
14 .B "\-s sf .."
15 ][
16 .B "\-c ce .."
17 ]
18 .B m1
19 [
20 .B "+*/"
21 ]
22 .B ".."
23 .SH DESCRIPTION
24 .I Rmtxop
25 loads and concatenates or adds/multiplies/divides
26 together component matrix files given on the command line.
27 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 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 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 (XML files cannot be read from the standard input or from a command.)\0
54 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 is at the top with the first column on the left.
59 .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 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 For element-wise multiplication and division, the second matrix may have
107 only a single component per element, which will be applied equally to all
108 components of the first matrix.
109 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 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 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 .PP
124 Results are sent to the standard output.
125 By default, the values will be written in the lowest resolution format
126 among the inputs, but the
127 .I \-f
128 option may be used to explicitly output components
129 as ASCII (-fa), binary doubles (-fd), floats (-ff), or RGBE colors (-fc).
130 In the latter case, the actual matrix dimensions are written in the resolution
131 string rather than the header.
132 Also, matrix results written as Radiance pictures must have either one
133 or three components.
134 In the one-component case, the output is written as grayscale.
135 .PP
136 The
137 .I \-v
138 option turns on verbose reporting, which announces each operation.
139 .SH EXAMPLES
140 To concatenate two matrix files with a BTDF between them and write
141 the result as binary double:
142 .IP "" .2i
143 rmtxop -fd view.vmx blinds.xml exterior.dmx > dcoef.dmx
144 .PP
145 To convert a BTDF matrix into a Radiance picture:
146 .IP "" .2i
147 rmtxop -fc blinds.xml > blinds.hdr
148 .PP
149 To scale a matrix by 4 and add it to the transpose of another matrix:
150 .IP "" .2i
151 rmtxop -s 4 left.mtx + -t right.mtx > result.mtx
152 .PP
153 To send the elements of a binary matrix to
154 .I rcalc(1)
155 for further processing:
156 .IP "" .2i
157 rmtxop -fa orig.mtx | rcollate -ho -oc 1 | rcalc [operations]
158 .SH AUTHOR
159 Greg Ward
160 .SH "SEE ALSO"
161 cnt(1), getinfo(1), histo(1), neaten(1), rcalc(1), rcollate(1),
162 rcontrib(1), rfluxmtx(1), rlam(1), tabfunc(1), total(1), wrapBSDF(1)