SYNOPSIS
ppmhist [-hexcolor] [-noheader] [-map] [-nomap] [-sort={frequency,rgb}] [ppmfile]
DESCRIPTION
Reads a PPM image as input. Generates a histogram of the colors in the image, i.e. a list of all the colors and how many pixels of each color are in the image.
OPTIONS
- -sort={frequency,rgb}
-
The
-sort
option determines the order in which the colors are listed in the output.
frequency
means to list them in order of how pixels in the input image have the color,
with the most represented colors first.
rgb
means to sort them first by the intensity of the red component of the color,
the of the green, then of the blue, with the least intense first.
The default is frequency.
- -hexcolor
- Print the color components in hexadecimal. Default is decimal.
- -noheader
- Do not print the column headings.
- -map
- Generates a PPM file of the colormap for the image, with the color histogram as comments.
- -nomap
-
Generates the histogram for human reading. This is the default.
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.