# ppmhist

Updated: 17 September 2000
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## NAME

ppmhist - print a histogram of a PPM image

## 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.

## SEE ALSO

ppm, pgmhist, ppmtomap, pnmhistmap, ppmchange

## AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.

## Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR