PPMTV(1)

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version 11.13.03 · 3 versions
, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 PPMTV 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Ppmtv User Manual from the General Commands Manual section 🎀 (yes it's section 1, we stan a classic)

✨ NAME ✨

ppmtv — makes a PPM image look like it was taken straight off an American TV 📺✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ppmtv dimfactor

[ppmfile]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so first thing, this program is part of Netpbm(1) 💜 bestie got adopted into the fam.

ppmtv reads a PPM image as input and dims every other row of the image data down by the dim factor you specify. And like, the factor can be anywhere from 0.0 all the way to 1.0:

  • 0.0 — the alternate lines are totally black 💀
  • 1.0 — the original image, untouched, no notes 👑

The way that this gives you an effect similar to what I've once seen in the video clip 'You could be mine' by Guns'n'Roses?? iconic fr fr 🎸🔥 In the scene I'm talking about you can literally see John Connor on his motorbike, looking up from the water trench (?) he's standing in. And while the camera pulls back, the image gets 'normal' again by brightening up the alternate rows of it. no cap, that's the whole vibe.

I thought this would be an interesting effect to try in MPEG. I did not yet check this out, however. Try for yourself 🙈✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

There are no command line options defined specifically for ppmtv, but it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See Common Options.) 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

ppm(1), ppmdim(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 1993 by Frank Neumann

🎀 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/ppmtv.html

netpbm documentation · 16 November 1993 · she's a Ppmtv User Manual and she ate, mwah 💋✨

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