Using Linux?

A BIT on-topic; Pictures produced using POV animation.

composite frame0.png frame1.png ...... frame9.png merged.png
gives a poor result.

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Shay <sha### [at] nonenone> wrote:
> Using Linux?

> A BIT on-topic; Pictures produced using POV animation.

> composite frame0.png frame1.png ...... frame9.png merged.png
> gives a poor result.

  What do you mean by "merge"?

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Warp wrote:
> Shay <sha### [at] nonenone> wrote:
>> Using Linux?
> 
>> A BIT on-topic; Pictures produced using POV animation.
> 
>> composite frame0.png frame1.png ...... frame9.png merged.png
>> gives a poor result.
> 
>   What do you mean by "merge"?
> 

Average.

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Shay <sha### [at] nonenone> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Shay <sha### [at] nonenone> wrote:
> >> Using Linux?
> > 
> >> A BIT on-topic; Pictures produced using POV animation.
> > 
> >> composite frame0.png frame1.png ...... frame9.png merged.png
> >> gives a poor result.
> > 
> >   What do you mean by "merge"?
> > 

> Average.

  You could always use this:
http://warp.povusers.org/PovUtils/average/

  Of course I wrote that like a millenia ago, and it's just horrible.
Maybe I should make a new version supporting PNGs instead...

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Am 02.07.2010 18:26, schrieb Shay:
> Using Linux?
>
> A BIT on-topic; Pictures produced using POV animation.
>
> composite frame0.png frame1.png ...... frame9.png merged.png
> gives a poor result.

Why not use POV-Ray for the job?

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Shay wrote:
> Average.

If it's really hundreds of images, to the point where simply averaging them 
together fails due to lack of sufficiently deep alpha channels (or some 
such), then the best bet is probably to find NetPBM (aka PBMPlus) and turn 
them all into textual PPM files. (Actually, I suspect ImageMagick can turn 
any file into a PPM file too, for that matter.)

Then write a simple program that reads all the files, does the average with 
longs instead of integers, and then writes out a PPM file you can turn back 
into whatever format you want to use.

If you use the textual version of PPM, you can open it in a text editor and 
deduce the format pretty easily, if you don't want to track down the actual 
specs.

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    C# - a language whose greatest drawback
    is that its best implementation comes
    from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.

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Darren New wrote:
> If you use the textual version of PPM, you can open it in a text editor 

convert xyz.png -compress None xyz.ppm

Then edit xyz.ppm in a text editor. You'll get a header (P3), the X, Y, and 
maximum data value, then X*Y ascii integers.

Read em, average em, convert em back.

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    C# - a language whose greatest drawback
    is that its best implementation comes
    from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.

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clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Why not use POV-Ray for the job?

  Has the limit of 256 elements in a pigment map (and other types of map)
been removed?

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Shay wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Shay <sha### [at] nonenone> wrote:
>>> Using Linux?
>>
>>> A BIT on-topic; Pictures produced using POV animation.
>>
>>> composite frame0.png frame1.png ...... frame9.png merged.png
>>> gives a poor result.
>>

I wrote a utility to do this a while back (but I'm on vacation so 
unfortunately I won't be able to find and post it for a while).  At any 
rate, the trick was to average pairs of images in a binary tree pattern 
until you're left with a single image at the root.  In this way you 
avoid the problems with limited precision that you get using the naive 
approach.  So long as you have a utility to average a pair of images it 
should be easy to write a script to do this.

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Kevin Wampler wrote:
> the trick was to average pairs of images in a binary tree pattern 

I think that's only going to work if you have a number of images that's a 
power of two. Certainly merging 3 images this way isn't going to balance them.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    C# - a language whose greatest drawback
    is that its best implementation comes
    from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.

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