# ppmpat

Updated: 04 September 1989
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## NAME

ppmpat - make a pretty pixmap

## SYNOPSIS

ppmpat -gingham2|-g2|-gingham3| -g3|-madras|-tartan| -poles|-squig|-camo| -anticamo width height

## DESCRIPTION

Produces a portable pixmap of the specified width and height, with a pattern in it.

This program is mainly to demonstrate use of the ppmdraw routines, a simple but powerful drawing library. See the ppmdraw.h include file for more info on using these routines. Still, some of the patterns can be rather pretty. If you have a color workstation, something like ppmpat -squig 300 300 | pnmquant 128 should generate a nice background.

## OPTIONS

The different flags specify various different pattern types:

-gingham2
  A gingham check pattern. Can be tiled.
-gingham3
  A slightly more complicated gingham. Can be tiled.
-madras
  A madras plaid. Can be tiled.
-tartan
  A tartan plaid. Can be tiled.
-poles
  Color gradients centered on randomly-placed poles. May need to be run through pnmquant.
-squig
  Squiggley tubular pattern. Can be tiled. May need to be run through pnmquant.
-camo
  Camouflage pattern. May need to be run through pnmquant.
-anticamo
  Anti-camouflage pattern - like -camo, but ultra-bright colors. May need to be run through pnmquant.

All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.

## REFERENCES

Some of the patterns are from "Designer's Guide to Color 3" by Jeanne Allen.

## SEE ALSO

pnmtile, pnmquant, ppm

## AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.

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