SDSC Image Tools

Version	Manufacturer	Hardware
3.0	San Diego Super Computing Center freeware	SUN/SGI

Description
- A Suite of image manipulation and conversion command-line tools and user-callable libraries.
  SDSC tools can be used as line commands in scripts to manipulate multiple images quickly. Especially useful are imconv (convert from one format to another) and imscale (the image scaling tool).
  (Also see the ImageMagick webpage).
Instructions for Use
- Tools
  - On the SUNs:
    The SDSC Image Tools are located in /tools/aml-estarose/local/sun_bin
  - On the SGIs:
    The SDSC Image Tools are located in /tools/aml-estarose/local/bin
  - Please add the appropriate path to your PATH environment variable (How-to).
    Then any of the following tools can be run.
    Text taken from Release notes for Version 3.0
    - imadjust - Adjust image colors, desaturate, brighten, etc.
      imcat - Concatenate images into multi-image files.
      imcltroll - Cycle a color lookup table.
      imcomp - Digitally composite images.
      imconv - Convert between all supported image file formats.
      imcopy - Copy a portion of an image into a new file.
      imdissolve - Dissolve between two images.
      imfile - Display image attributes.
      imfill - Fill a region of an image with a color or gradient.
      imflip - Flip an image horizontally or vertically.
      imformats - Describe image file format support.
      imgray - Convert to grayscale.
      imhist - Compute an image histogram.
      imkey - Chroma key two images together.
      imlighten - Lighten or darken an image.
      immono - Convert to monochrome.
      impaste - Paste an image into another.
      imroll - Cycle an image horizontally or vertically.
      imrotate - Free rotate an image.
      imscale - Scale an image up or down.
      imshear - Shear an image horizontally or vertically.
      imsplit - Split apart multi-image files.
      imstoryboard - Build a storyboard grid of images.
- Libraries
  libim.a - image conversion and manipulation functions
  libsdsc.a - SDSC complimentary packages- binary i/o, arguments parsing, and tag table
  - On the Suns:
    /tools/aml-estarose/local/sun_lib
  - On the SGIs:
    /tools/aml-estarose/local/lib
  Include files in: /tools/aml-estarose/local/include/imtools
Documentation
- A postscript version of the man page for each tool and each function in the libraries libim.a & libsdsc.a are in /tools/aml-estarose/local/doc/imtools
  - The tool docs are the same as the man pages
  - For libim.a, the overview is
    libim/imintro.ps
  - For libsdsc.a, the overviews are the following files in directory libsdsc
    argintro.ps, binintro.ps, & tagintro.ps
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