RISTOSDS(1)

✨ RISTOSDS(1) ✨

ok so bestie, gather round, because ristosds is one of those lil utilities that is lowkey iconic once you get what it does 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

ristosds — convert several RIS8 images to one 3D SDS 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ristosds input-file-1, input-file-2...  [-o output-file]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the vibe: ristosds takes a whole set of HDF files — each one holding one or more raster images — and squishes them together into a single HDF file that contains one three-dimensional Scientific Data Set (SDS). one file, 3D, main character energy. 👑

heads up bestie: all the images in the input HDF files must have the same dimensions. no mixing and matching, it's giving ✨consistency✨.

and if you want a palette tagging along with your images? it has to live in the first HDF input file, periodt. only one palette can be associated with the images, so any extra palette data the utility runs into after it's already processed that first palette? yeah, that's getting ignored. not sorry. 🙈

🫶 OPTIONS 🫶

• -o outfile — write the output to outfile. that's it, that's the whole option list, and honestly? we love a one-option situation. 😌

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

imagine your directory is just vibing with 20 files: storm001.hdf, storm002.hdf, ... all the way to storm020.hdf. each one contains a single RIS8 with a 100 x 200 raster image. 📸

now you wanna combine all 20 of those raster images into one 32-bit floating-point SDS with the dimensions 100 x 200 x 20. iconic. here's the command:

ristosds storm*.hdf -o storm.hdf

slay. that's it. you did that. 💅✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

hdf(5).

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 — this lil number is from the General Commands Manual, dated November 7, 1999, and it's page RISTOSDS(1). no cap, go make some 3D SDSs 💖