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+.\" This man page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.
+.\" Do not hand-hack it! If you have bug fixes or improvements, please find
+.\" the corresponding HTML page on the Netpbm website, generate a patch
+.\" against that, and send it to the Netpbm maintainer.
+.TH "Ppmglobe User Manual" 0 "23 February 2006" "netpbm documentation"
+
+.SH NAME
+
+ppmglobe - generate strips to glue onto a sphere
+
+.UN synopsis
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+
+\fBppmglobe\fP
+[\fB-background=\fP\fIcolorname\fP]
+[\fB-closeok\fP]
+\fIstripcount\fP
+[\fIfilename\fP]
+.PP
+Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable. You may use double
+hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options. You may use white
+space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from its value.
+
+
+.UN description
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+This program is part of
+.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c
+\&.
+.PP
+\fBppmglobe\fP does the inverse of a cylindrical projection of a
+sphere. Starting with a cylindrical projection, it produces an image
+you can cut up and glue onto a sphere to obtain the spherical image of
+which it is the cylindrical projection.
+.PP
+What is a cylindrical projection? Imagine a map of the Earth on flat
+paper. There are lots of different ways cartographers show the three
+dimensional information in such a two dimensional map. The cylindrical
+projection is one. You could make a cylindrical projection by tracing as
+folows: wrap a rectangular sheet of paper around the globe, touching the globe
+at the Equator. For each point of color on the globe, run a horizontal line
+from the axis of the globe through that point and out to the paper. Mark the
+same color on the paper there. Lay the paper out flat and you have a
+cylindrical projection.
+.PP
+Here's where \fBppmglobe\fP comes in: Pass the image on that paper
+through \fBppmglobe\fP and what comes out the other side looks something
+like this:
+.PP
+.B Example of map of the earth run through ppmglobe
+.IMG -C globe.jpg
+.PP
+You could cut out the strips and glue it onto a sphere and you'd
+have a copy of the original globe.
+.PP
+Note that cylindrical projections are not what you normally see as
+maps of the Earth. You're more likely to see a Mercator projection.
+In the Mercator projection, the Earth gets stretched North-South as
+well as East-West as you move away from the Equator. It was invented
+for use in navigation, because you can draw straight compass courses
+on it, but is used today because it is pretty.
+.PP
+You can find maps of planets at
+.UR http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov
+maps.jpl.nasa.gov
+.UE
+\&.
+
+.UN parameters
+.SH PARAMETERS
+.PP
+\fIstripcount\fP is the number of strips \fBppmglobe\fP is to
+generate in the output. More strips makes it easier to fit onto a
+sphere (less stretching, tearing, and crumpling of paper), but makes
+you do more cutting out of the strips.
+.PP
+The strips are all the same width. If the number of columns of
+pixels in the image doesn't evenly divide by the number of strips,
+\fBppmglobe\fP truncates the image on the right to create nothing but
+whole strips. In the pathological case that there are fewer columns
+of pixels than the number of strips you asked for, \fBppmglobe\fP
+fails.
+.PP
+Before Netpbm 10.32 (February 2006), instead of truncating the image
+on the right, \fBppmglobe\fP produces a fractional strip on the right.
+.PP
+\fIfilename\fP is the name of the input file. If you don't
+specify this, \fBppmglobe\fP reads the image from Standard Input.
+
+
+.UN options
+.SH OPTIONS
+
+
+
+.TP
+\fB-background=\fP\fIcolorname\fP
+This specifies the color that goes between the strips.
+.sp
+Specify the color (\fIcolor\fP) as described for the
+.UR libppm.html#colorname
+argument of the \fBppm_parsecolor()\fP library routine
+.UE
+\&.
+.sp
+The default is black.
+.sp
+This option was new in Netpbm 10.31 (December 2005). Before that,
+the background is always black.
+
+.TP
+\fB-closeok\fP
+This means it is OK if the background isn't exactly the color you specify.
+Sometimes, it is impossible to represent a named color exactly because of the
+precision (i.e. maxval) of the image's color space. If you specify
+\fB-closeok\fP and \fBppmglobe\fP can't represent the color you name
+exactly, it will use instead the closest color to it that is possible.
+If you don't specify \fBcloseok\fP, \fBppmglobe\fP fails in that
+situation.
+.sp
+This option was new in Netpbm 10.31 (December 2005).
+
+
+
+.UN seealso
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR "ppm" (5)\c
+\&
+.BR "pnmmercator" (1)\c
+\&
+
+.UN history
+.SH HISTORY
+.PP
+\fBppmglobe\fP was new in Netpbm 10.16 (June 2003).
+.PP
+It is derived from Max Gensthaler's \fBppmglobemap\fP.
+
+.UN authors
+.SH AUTHORS
+.PP
+\fIMax Gensthaler\fP
+wrote a program he called
+\fBppmglobemap\fP in June 2003 and suggested it for inclusion in
+Netpbm. Bryan Henderson modified the code slightly and included it in
+Netpbm as \fBppmglobe\fP.
+.SH DOCUMENT SOURCE
+This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
+source. The master documentation is at
+.IP
+.B http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppmglobe.html
+.PP \ No newline at end of file