DIFFIMG(1)

✨ DIFFIMG πŸ’…

okay bestie, welcome to the diffimg page β€” it's a General Commands Manual situation, section 1, and it's about to be your new fave little image-comparing icon πŸŽ€


🌸 NAME 🌸

diffimg β€” literally calculates the intersection between two images. that's it, that's the whole job πŸ’–


πŸ¦‹ SYNOPSIS πŸ¦‹

diffimg image1 image2 [outimage]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: diffimg generates an image where each pixel is the difference between the corresponding pixel in each of the two source images πŸ”₯

the way that works is so satisfying β€” if the source images are the same, the resulting image will be black, and otherwise it will have regions of non-black where the images differ πŸ‘‘

ngl that's genuinely main character energy for a diff tool.

currently supports: .png, .gif, .jpg, and .ps by using ghostscript 🌈

not me hyping up the .ps support β€” it's the ghostscript assist that makes it happen, iykyk 🧚

πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

diffimg was written by John Ellson <ellson@research.att.com> πŸ’œ

this manual page was written by David Claughton <dave@eclecticdave.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others) 🫢


okay that's the whole page, bestie, we ate and left no crumbs πŸ“ this one came to you from the General Commands Manual, dated Jan 31, 2010 β€” iconic behavior, periodt πŸ’…βœ¨

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