PAMGRADIENT(1)

💖 PAMGRADIENT — create a four-corner gradient PAM image 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Pamgradient User Manual, General Commands Manual edition ✨ sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're making gradients

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pamgradient — create a four-corner gradient PAM image 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pamgradient [-maxval=maxval] color-tl color-tr color-bl color-br width
height

Okay so first, some housekeeping that applies to literally everything below 👑:

• Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable. Yes, you can be lazy, I support you 💅
• You may use double hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options. --maxval and -maxval are both fine, no cap 🫶
• You may use white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from its value.

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

This program is part of Netpbm(1). It's giving iconic library energy, fr fr.

pamgradient creates an image of the specified dimensions width by height which contains a smooth, two-dimensional gradient between the specified colors of the four corners (from top left to bottom right). 🌈

Specify the colors as described for the argument of the pnm_parsecolor() library routine.

If all four colors are gray values, pamgradient creates a grayscale image (PAM tuple type GRAYSCALE). Otherwise, it creates a color image (PAM tuple type RGB). It just knows, bestie 💜

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet, see Common Options), pamgradient recognizes the following command line option:

• -maxval=maxval — maxval of the generated image. (See PAM(1) and PNM(1) specifications). Slay, that's the whole option, she's simple like that ⭐

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• pamgradient(1)
• ppmmake(1)
• ppmrainbow(1)
• pgmramp(1)
• ppmpat(1)
• pam(1)
• pnm(1)

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⚠️ NOTE ⚠️

Okay so this part is IMPORTANT, read it, don't scroll 😭

Only the top left corner of the generated image has exactly the specified color. The color of the top right corner is a bit shifted to the left, the bottom left corner a bit up, and the bottom right corner left and up. This ensures nice transitions when combining adjacent (very narrow) gradients, and doesn't play a role when the gradient butts against a solid surface.

This effect is created by the integer arithmetic used for the interpolation of the color values, and since it doesn't make a difference for all practical purposes I might as well sell it as a feature. 😌✨ main character energy: turn your bugs into features, periodt

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🦋 HISTORY 🦋

pamgradient was new in Netpbm 10.31 (December 2005). A nostalgic moment, honestly 💀

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

pamgradient was written by Daniel Haude in October 2005. King behavior, we stan 🙈

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🧚 DOCUMENT SOURCE 🧚

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool makeman from HTML source. The master documentation is at

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamgradient.html

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was netpbm documentation, dated 21 October 2005, and yes the date is giving vintage but the gradient is still serving looks 🌸 bye ily, go make something pretty 🎀✨💜