[Radiance-general] pcond stdin

[Christopher Rush]

I often use temporary files for the following sequence, since pcond doesn't play well with piped input from pfilt. I don't have a detailed understanding of stdin, but is there anything I'm missing? It seems counterintuitive, but maybe it would be faster to run pcond on the full size image (unless it was oversampled by more than double).

rpict scene.oct > highres.hdr
pfilt -x /2 -y /2 highres.hdr > temp.hdr
pcond -s temp.hdr | ra_ppm | convert ...


-----Original Message-----

Even if you are going to a program that expects input on stdin, you can redirect it instead:

!fussy_program < input | second_program etc...
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