NAME

       pammosaicknit - validate a mosaic knitting pattern

SYNOPSIS

       pammosaicknit [in_netpbmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pammosaicknit  helps  the  user  create  mosaic knitting patterns  . The program inputs a black-and-white
       Netpbm image that describes a mosaic knitting pattern and outputs  a  color  Netpbm  image  of  the  same
       pattern but with invalid runs shown in red.

       A valid knitting pattern starts with a "black" row on the bottom and alternates "white" and "black" rows.
       A  "black"  row  can  contain  any  arrangement  of black pixels but no more than three consecutive white
       pixels. A "white" row can contain any arrangement of white pixels but  no  more  than  three  consecutive
       black pixels. Columns wrap horizontally, so a "white" row that both begins and ends with two black pixels
       is  deemed to contain four consecutive black pixels. Because this is an invalid number for a "white" row,
       those four pixels will be recolored red in the output image.

       For clarity, there are two shades of red in the output image.  Dark red pixels indicate pixels that  were
       black  in  the  input  image  but  which must contain one or more white pixels. Light red pixels indicate
       pixels that were white in the input image but which must contain one or more black pixels.

       If the output image contains no red pixels, then the input  image  represents  a  valid  mosaic  knitting
       pattern.

OPTIONS

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

ARGUMENTS

       pammosaicknit's only argument, in_netpbmfile, is the name of an  image  file  that  represents  a  mosaic
       knitting pattern. If you don't specify in_netpbmfile, the program reads the image from Standard Input.

NOTES

       If  the  input  image  is  not a black-and-white image, pammosaicknit converts it internally to black and
       white by thresholding each pixel's luminosity. The output image is always a  color  image  containing  at
       most four colors (black, white, dark red, light red).

SEE ALSO

       •      pam(1)

HISTORY

       pammosaicknit was new in Netpbm 10.53 (December 2010).

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 2010 Scott Pakin, scott+pbm@pakin.org

Table Of Contents

       •      SYNOPSIS

       •      DESCRIPTION

       •      OPTIONS

       •      ARGUMENTS

       •      NOTES

       •      SEE ALSO

       •      HISTORY

       •      AUTHOR

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/pammosaicknit.html

netpbm documentation                            12 December 2010                    Pammosaicknit User Manual(1)