PGMBENTLEY(1)

💅 pgmbentley — bestie edition 💅

okay so this is the pgmbentley page from the Pgmbentley User Manual, section 1 of the General Commands Manual. yes she's old. yes she still slays. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

pgmbentley — Bentleyize a PGM image 🌈

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pgmbentley [pgmfile]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so first thing, bestie: this program is part of Netpbm(1). it's in the family. it's got the family energy. 💜

pgmbentley reads a PGM image as input and performs the Bentley Effect, and then writes a PGM image as output. that's the whole arc, that's the character development, that's the plot 🎬

so like. what is the Bentley Effect? it's described in "Beyond Photography" by Holzmann, chapter 4, photo 4. and it's giving... vertical smearing. but based on brightness?? yes. vertical smearing ✨based on brightness✨. it's giving avant-garde, it's giving experimental, it's giving 1991 and unbothered 💀

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

ngl there are no command line options defined specifically for pgmbentley. literally none, she's lowkey minimalist 👑

that said, she does recognize the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm. (See Common Options.) so the shared options? she has them. the bespoke ones? she does not. periodt 💅

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• pgmoil(1)
• ppmrelief(1)
• pgm(1)

go read those too bestie, they're the friend group 🌸

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Copyright (C) 1990 by Wilson Bent (whb@hoh-2.att.com) 🎀

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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/pgmbentley.html

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and that's the whole page!! tysm for reading, you ate that 🍓 the netpbm documentation for this one is dated 11 January 1991 and it lives in the Pgmbentley User Manual(1) era. iconic, timeless, fr fr 💖✨