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Revision: 1.9
Committed: Mon May 4 20:53:21 2015 UTC (10 years ago) by greg
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rad5R0, rad5R1
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Log Message:
Added the ability to read matrix inputs from commands as well as files

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1 .\" RCSid "$Id: rmtxop.1,v 1.8 2015/02/20 18:26:09 greg Exp $"
2 .TH RMTXOP 1 7/8/97 RADIANCE
3 .SH NAME
4 rmtxop - concatenate, add, 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 (multiplies) or adds together component matrix files
26 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 ('+') symbol,
100 in which case the elements are added together.
101 The number of components in the new matrix after applying any
102 .I -c
103 transform must agree with the prior result.
104 For concatenation (matrix multiplication), the number of columns
105 in the prior result must equal the number of rows in the new matrix, and
106 the result will have the number of rows of the previous and the number
107 of columns of the new matrix.
108 In the case of addition, the number of rows and columns of the prior
109 result and the new matrix must match, and will not be changed by the
110 operation.
111 .PP
112 Results are sent to the standard output.
113 By default, the values will be written in the lowest resolution format
114 among the inputs, but the
115 .I \-f
116 option may be used to explicitly output components
117 as ASCII (-fa), binary doubles (-fd), floats (-ff), or RGBE colors (-fc).
118 In the latter case, the actual matrix dimensions are written in the resolution
119 string rather than the header.
120 Also, matrix results written as Radiance pictures must have either one
121 or three components.
122 In the one-component case, the output is written as grayscale.
123 .PP
124 The
125 .I \-v
126 option turns on verbose reporting, which announces each operation.
127 .SH EXAMPLES
128 To concatenate two matrix files with a BTDF between them and write
129 the result as binary double:
130 .IP "" .2i
131 rmtxop -fd view.vmx blinds.xml exterior.dmx > dcoef.dmx
132 .PP
133 To convert a BTDF matrix into a Radiance picture:
134 .IP "" .2i
135 rmtxop -fc blinds.xml > blinds.hdr
136 .PP
137 To scale a matrix by 4 and add it to the transpose of another matrix:
138 .IP "" .2i
139 rmtxop -s 4 left.mtx + -t right.mtx > result.mtx
140 .PP
141 To send the elements of a binary matrix to
142 .I rcalc(1)
143 for further processing:
144 .IP "" .2i
145 rmtxop -fa orig.mtx | rcollate -ho -oc 1 | rcalc [operations]
146 .SH AUTHOR
147 Greg Ward
148 .SH "SEE ALSO"
149 cnt(1), getinfo(1), histo(1), neaten(1), rcalc(1), rcollate(1),
150 rcontrib(1), rfluxmtx(1), rlam(1), tabfunc(1), total(1), wrapBSDF(1)