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1 .\" RCSid "$Id: rmtxop.1,v 1.17 2019/09/10 17:58:20 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 Any exposure changes applied to the pictures beforehand
60 .I rmtxop
61 will be undone, similar to the
62 .I pcomb\(1)
63 .I \-o
64 option.
65 .PP
66 Before each file, the
67 .I \-t
68 and
69 .I \-s
70 or
71 .I \-c
72 options may be used to modify the matrix.
73 The
74 .I \-t
75 option transposes the matrix, swapping rows and columns.
76 The
77 .I \-s
78 option applies the given scalar factor(s) to the elements of the matrix.
79 If only one factor is provided,
80 it will be used for all components.
81 If multiple factors are given, their number must match the number of matrix
82 components.
83 Alternatively, the
84 .I \-c
85 option may be used to "transform" the element values, possibly changing
86 the number of components in the matrix.
87 For example, a 3-component matrix can be transformed into a single-component
88 matrix by using
89 .I \-c
90 with three coefficients.
91 A four-component matrix can be turned into a two-component matrix using 8
92 coefficients, where the first four coefficients will be used to compute
93 the first new component, and the second four coefficients
94 yield the second new component.
95 Note that the number of coefficients must be an even multiple of the number
96 of original components.
97 The
98 .I \-s
99 and
100 .I \-c
101 options are mutually exclusive, insofar as they cannot be applied together
102 to the same input matrix.
103 .PP
104 If present, the second and subsequent matrices on the command
105 line are concatenated together, unless separated by a plus ('+'),
106 asterisk ('*'), or forward slash ('/') symbol,
107 in which case the individual matrix elements are added,
108 multiplied, or divided, respectively.
109 The concatenation operator ('.') is the default and need not be specified.
110 Note also that the asterisk must be quoted or escaped in most shells.
111 In the case of addition, the two matrices involved must have the same number
112 of components.
113 If subtraction is desired, use addition ('+') with a scaling parameter of -1
114 for the second matrix (the
115 .I \-s
116 option).
117 For element-wise multiplication and division, the second matrix is
118 permitted to have a single component per element, which will be
119 applied equally to all components of the first matrix.
120 If element-wise division is specified, any zero elements in the second
121 matrix will result in a warning and the corresponding component(s) in the
122 first matrix will be set to zero.
123 .PP
124 Evaluation proceeds from left to right, and all operations have
125 the same precedence.
126 If a different evaluation order is desired, pipe the result of one
127 .I rmtxop
128 command into another, as shown in one of the examples below.
129 .PP
130 The number of components in the next matrix after applying any
131 .I -c
132 transform must agree with the prior result.
133 For concatenation (matrix multiplication), the number of columns
134 in the prior result must equal the number of rows in the next matrix, and
135 the result will have the number of rows of the previous and the number
136 of columns of the next matrix.
137 In the case of addition, multiplication, and division,
138 the number of rows and columns of the prior result and the
139 next matrix must match, and will not be changed by the operation.
140 .PP
141 A final transpose or scaling/transform operation may be applied to
142 the results by appending the
143 .I \-t
144 and
145 .I \-s
146 or
147 .I \-c
148 options after the last matrix on the command line.
149 .PP
150 Results are sent to the standard output.
151 By default, the values will be written in the lowest resolution format
152 among the inputs, but the
153 .I \-f
154 option may be used to explicitly output components
155 as ASCII (-fa), binary doubles (-fd), floats (-ff), or RGBE colors (-fc).
156 In the latter case, the actual matrix dimensions are written in the resolution
157 string rather than the header.
158 Also, matrix results written as Radiance pictures must have either one
159 or three components.
160 In the one-component case, the output is written as grayscale.
161 .PP
162 The
163 .I \-v
164 option turns on verbose reporting, which announces each operation.
165 .SH EXAMPLES
166 To concatenate two matrix files with a BTDF between them and write
167 the result as binary double:
168 .IP "" .2i
169 rmtxop -fd view.vmx blinds.xml exterior.dmx > dcoef.dmx
170 .PP
171 To convert a BTDF matrix into a Radiance picture:
172 .IP "" .2i
173 rmtxop -fc blinds.xml > blinds.hdr
174 .PP
175 To extract the luminance values from a picture as an ASCII matrix:
176 .IP "" .2i
177 rmtxop -fa -c .265 .670 .065 image.hdr > image_lum.mtx
178 .PP
179 To scale a matrix by 4 and add it to the transpose of another matrix:
180 .IP "" .2i
181 rmtxop -s 4 first.mtx + -t second.mtx > result.mtx
182 .PP
183 To multiply elements of two matrices, then concatenate with a third,
184 applying a final transpose to the result:
185 .IP "" .2i
186 rmtxop first.mtx \\* second.mtx . third.mtx -t > result.mtx
187 .PP
188 To left-multiply the element-wise division of two matrices:
189 .IP "" .2i
190 rmtxop -fd numerator.mtx / denominator.mtx | rmtxop left.mtx - > result.mtx
191 .PP
192 To send the elements of a binary matrix to
193 .I rcalc(1)
194 for further processing:
195 .IP "" .2i
196 rmtxop -fa orig.mtx | rcollate -ho -oc 1 | rcalc [operations]
197 .SH NOTES
198 Matrix concatenation is associative but not commutative, so order
199 matters to the result.
200 .I Rmtxop
201 takes advantage of this associative property to concatenate
202 from right to left when it reduces the number of basic operations.
203 If the rightmost matrix is a column vector for example, it is
204 much faster to concatenate from the right, and the result will
205 be the same.
206 Note that this only applies to concatenation;
207 element-wise addition, multiplication, and division are always
208 evaluated from left to right.
209 .SH AUTHOR
210 Greg Ward
211 .SH "SEE ALSO"
212 cnt(1), getinfo(1), histo(1), neaten(1), pcomb(1), rcalc(1),
213 rcollate(1), rcontrib(1), rfluxmtx(1), rlam(1),
214 rsplit(1), tabfunc(1), total(1), wrapBSDF(1)