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Updated: 03 January 2015
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<H2>NAME</H2>
pamarith - perform arithmetic on two Netpbm images
<H2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>pamarith</B>
<B>-add</B> | <B>-subtract</B> | <B>-multiply</B> | <b>-divide</b> |
<B>-difference</B> |
<B>-minimum</B> | <B>-maximum</B> | <B>-mean</B> | <B>-compare</B> |
<B>-and</B> | <B>-or</B> | <B>-nand</B> | <B>-nor</B> | <B>-xor</B> |
<B>-shiftleft</B> | <B>-shiftright</B>
<I>pamfile1</I> <I>pamfile2</I>
<P>All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.
You may use two hyphens instead of one. You may separate an option
name and its value with white space instead of an equals sign.
<H2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</H2>
<p>This program is part of <a href="index.html">Netpbm</a>.
<P><b>pamarith</b> reads two PBM, PGM, PPM, or PAM images as input.
It performs the specified binary arithmetic operation on their sample
values and produces an output of a format which is the more general of
the two input formats. The two input images must be of the same width
and height. The arithmetic is performed on each pair of identically
located tuples to generate the identically located tuple of the
output.
<P>For the purpose of the calculation, it assumes any PBM, PGM, or PPM
input image is the equivalent PAM image of tuple type
<B>BLACKANDWHITE</B>, <B>GRAYSCALE</B>, or <B>RGB</B>, respectively,
and if it produces a PBM, PGM, or PPM output, produces the equivalent
of the PAM image which is the result of the calculation.
<p>The first <i>pamfile</i> argument identifies the "left"
argument image; the second <i>pamfile</i> argument identifies the
"right" one.
<p>If the output is PAM, the tuple type is the same as the tuple type of
the left input image.
<P><b>pamarith</b> performs the arithmetic on each pair of identically
located tuples in the two input images.
<p>The arithmetic operation is in all cases fundamentally a function from two
integers to an integer (but see below - the functions are defined in ways that
you can effectively e.g. add real numbers). The operation is performed on two
tuples as follows. The two input images must have the same depth, or one of
them must have depth one. <b>pamarith</b> fails if one of these is not the
case.
<p>If they have the same depth, <b>pamarith</b> simply carries out the
arithmetic one sample at a time. I.e. if at a particular position the
left input image contains the tuple (s1,s2,...,sN) and the right
input image contains the tuple (t1,t2,...tN), and the function is f,
then the output image contains the tuple
(f(s1,t1),f(s2,t2),...,f(sN,tN)).
<p>If one of the images has depth 1, the arithmetic is performed
between the one sample in that image and each of the samples in the
other. I.e. if at a particular position the left input image
contains the tuple (s) and the right input image contains the tuple
(t1,t2,...tN), and the function is f, then the output image contains
the tuple (f(s,t1),f(s,t2),...,f(s,tN)).
<h3 id="maxval">Maxval</h3>
<p>The meanings of the samples with respect to the maxval varies
according to the function you select.
<p>In PAM images in general, the most usual meaning of a sample (the
one that applies when a PAM image represents a visual image), is that
it represents a fraction of some maximum. The maxval of the image
corresponds to some maximum value (in the case of a visual image, it
corresponds to "full intensity."), and a sample value
divided by the maxval gives the fraction.
<p>For <b>pamarith</b>, this interpretation applies to the regular
arithmetic functions: <B>-add</B>, <B>-subtract</B>, <B>-multiply</B>,
<b>-divide</b>,
<B>-difference</B>, <B>-minimum</B>, <B>-maximum</B>, <B>-mean</B>,
and <B>-compare</B>. For those, you should think of the arguments and
result as numbers in the range [0,1). For example, if the maxval of
the left argument image is 100 and the maxval of the right argument
image is 200 and the maxval of the output image is 200, and the left
sample value in an <b>-add</b> calculation is 50 and the right sample
is 60, the actual calculation is 50/100 + 60/200 = 160/200, and
the output sample value is 160.
<P>For these functions, <b>pamarith</b> makes the output image's
maxval the maximum of the two input maxvals, except with
<b>-compare</b>, where <b>pamarith</b> uses an output maxval of 2.
(Before Netpbm 10.14 (February 2003), there was no exception for
<b>-compare</b>; in 10.14, the exception was just that the maxval
was <em>at least</em> 2, and sometime between 10.18 and 10.26 (January
2005), it changed to being exactly 2).
<p>If the result of a calculation falls outside the range [0, 1),
<b>pamarith</b> clips it -- i.e. considers it to be zero or 1-.
<p>In many cases, where both your input maxvals are the same, you can
just think of the operation as taking place between the sample values
directly, with no consideration of the maxval except for the clipping.
E.g. an <b>-add</b> of sample value 5 to sample value 8 yields sample
value 13.
<p>But with <b>-multiply</b>, this doesn't work. Say your two input
images have maxval 255, which means the output image also has maxval
255. Consider a location in the image where the input sample values
are 5 and 10. You might think the multiplicative product of those
would yield 50 in the output. But <b>pamarith</b> carries out the
arithmetic on the fractions 5/255 and 10/255. It multiplies those
together and then rescales to the output maxval, giving a sample value
in the output PAM of 50/255 rounded to the nearest integer: 0.
<P>With the bit string operations, the maxval has a whole different
meaning. The operations in question are: <B>-and</B>, <B>-or</B>,
<B>-nand</B>, <B>-nor</B>, <B>-xor</B>, and <B>-shiftleft</B>,
<B>-shiftright</B>.
<p>With these, each sample value in one or both input images, and in
the output image, represents a bit string, not a number. The maxval
tells how wide the bit string is. The maxval must be a full binary
count (a power of two minus one, such as 0xff) and the number of ones
in it is the width of the bit string. For the dyadic bit string
operations (that's everything but the shift functions), the maxvals of
the input images must be the same and <b>pamarith</b> makes the maxval
of the output image the same.
<p>For the bit shift operations, the output maxval is the same as the
left input maxval. The right input image (which contains the shift
counts) can have any maxval and the maxval is irrelevant to the
interpretation of the samples. The sample value is the actual shift
count. But it's still required that no sample value exceed the
maxval.
<h3 id="operations">The Operations</h3>
<p>Most of the operations are obvious from the option name. The following
paragraphs cover those that aren't.
<P><B>-subtract</B> subtracts a value in the right input image from a
value in the left input image.
<P><B>-difference</B> calculates the absolute value of
the difference.
<p><b>-multiply</b> does an ordinary arithmetic multiplication, but
tends to produce nonobvious results because of the way <b>pamarith</b>
interprets sample values. See <a href="#maxval">Maxval</a>.
<P><b>-divide</b> divides a value in the left input image by the value
in the right input image. But like <b>-multiply</b>, it tends to
produce nonobvious results. Note that <b>pamarith</b> clipping
behavior makes this of little use when the left argument (dividend) is
greater than the right argument (divisor) -- the result in that case
is always the maxval. If the divisor is 0, the result is the maxval.
This option was new in Netpbm 10.30 (October 2005).
<P><B>-compare</B> produces the value <b>0</b> when the value in the
left input image is less than the value in the right input image,
<b>1</b> when the values are equal, and <b>2</b> when the left is
greater than the right.
<p>If the maxvals of the input images are not identical, <b>pamarith</b>
may claim two values are not equal when in fact they are, because of
the precision with which it does the arithmetic. However, it will never
say A is greater than B if A is less than B.
<p><b>-compare</b> was new in Netpbm 10.13 (December 2002).
<p><b>-and</b>, <b>-nand</b>, <b>-or</b>, <b>-nor</b>, and <b>-xor</b>
consider the input and output images to contain bit strings; they
compute bitwise logic operations. Note that if the maxval is 1, you
can also look at these as logic operations on boolean input values.
See section <a href="#maxval">Maxval</a> for the special meaning of
maxval with respect to bit string operations such as these.
<p><b>-shiftleft</b> and <b>-shiftright</b> consider the left input
image and output image to contain bit strings. They compute a bit
shift operation, with bits falling off the left or right end and
zeroes shifting in, as opposed to bits off one end to the other. The
right input image sample value is the number of bit positions to
shift.
<p>Note that the maxval (see <a href="#maxval">Maxval</a>) determines
the width of the frame within which you are shifting.
<h3 id="notes">Notes</h3>
<P>If you want to apply a unary function, e.g. "halve", to a single
image, use <b>pamfunc</b>.
<H2 id="seealso">SEE ALSO</H2>
<A HREF="pamfunc.html"><b>pamfunc</b></A>,
<A HREF="pamsummcol.html"><b>pamsummcol</b></A>,
<A HREF="pamsumm.html"><b>pamsumm</b></A>,
<A HREF="pnminvert.html"><b>pnminvert</b></A>,
<A HREF="ppmbrighten.html"><b>ppmbrighten</b></A>,
<A HREF="ppmdim.html"><b>ppmdim</b></A>,
<A HREF="pnmconvol.html"><b>pnmconvol</b></A>,
<A HREF="pamdepth.html"><b>pamdepth</b></A>,
<A HREF="pnmpsnr.html"><b>pnmpsnr</b></A>,
<A HREF="pnm.html">pnm</A>,
<A HREF="pam.html">pam</A>
<H2 id="history">HISTORY</h2>
<p><b>pamarith</b> replaced <b>pnmarith</b> in Netpbm 10.3 (June 2002).
<p>In Netpbm 10.3 through 10.8, though, <b>pamarith</b> was not
backward compatible because it required the input images to be of the
same depth, so you could not multiply a PBM by a PPM as is often done
for masking. (It was not intended at the time that <b>pnmarith</b>
would be removed from Netpbm -- the plan was just to rewrite it to use
<b>pamarith</b>; it was removed by mistake).
<p>But starting with Netpbm 10.9 (September 2002), <b>pamarith</b> allows
the images to have different depths as long as one of them has depth 1, and
that made it backward compatible with <b>pnmarith</b>.
<P>The original <b>pnmarith</b> did not have the <b>-mean</b> option.
<P>The <b>-compare</b> option was added in Netpbm 10.13 (December 2002).
<p>The bit string operations were added in Netpbm 10.27 (March 2005).
<P>The <b>-divide</b> option was added in Netpbm 10.30 (October 2005).
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<H2 id="index">Table Of Contents</H2>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="#synopsis">SYNOPSIS</A>
<LI><A HREF="#description">DESCRIPTION</A>
<LI><A HREF="#maxval">MAXVAL</A>
<LI><A HREF="#operations">THE OPERATIONS</A>
<LI><A HREF="#notes">NOTES</A>
<LI><A HREF="#history">HISTORY</A>
<LI><A HREF="#seealso">SEE ALSO</A>
<LI><A HREF="#author">AUTHOR</A>
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