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<H1>ppmspread</H1>
Updated: 20 November 2008
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<H2>NAME</H2>
ppmspread - displace a PPM image's pixels by a random amount
<H2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</H2>
<b>ppmspread</b> <I>amount</I> [<I>ppmfile</I>]
<H2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</H2>
<p>This program is part of <a href="index.html">Netpbm</a>.
<p><b>ppmspread</b> reads a PPM image as input and moves every pixel
around a random bit relative to its original position. <i>amount</i>
determines by how many pixels a pixel is to be moved around at most.
<P>Pictures processed with this filter will seem to be somewhat
dissolved or unfocussed (although they appear more coarse than images
processed by something like <I>pnmconvol</I>).
<p>The randomness in the image is limited before Netpbm 10.37 (December
2006) -- if you run the program twice in the same second, you may get
identical output.
<H2 id="seealso">SEE ALSO</H2>
<A HREF="ppm.html">ppm</A>,
<A HREF="pnmconvol.html">pnmconvol</A>
<H2 id="author">AUTHOR</H2>
Copyright (C) 1993 by Frank Neumann
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