Each program here will describe its own command line arguments to you if you type in the command with no arguments, except where indicated.
backanimation
Background animation handler for Surveyor. Surveyor will start this
program automatically when you render an animation in the background
or a still frame to disk. You can run it manually to start or restart
a background animation as well. It requires the background files
created by Surveyor.
comp
Composite program. You can use this to composite multiple frames
together. Optionally will make an image translucent, and will use the
distance and percent images output from render to give high quality.
easeinout
Shell script utility. Used to generate values in a script for smooth
start/stop acceleration.
fcompare
Shell script utility. Allows comparison of floating point numbers in a
shell script "if" statement.
filter
Simple convolution filter program. Only allows a few built in kernels.
gaussdown
Scale in image down by two (quarter area) using a selectable low pass
filter kernel.
hlocal
Convert a HALF format (16 bit signed) vicar image which is in VAX
(low-endian) format to the local HALF (a "short" in C) format. Should
work under any architecture, including Cray.
import
Flexible binary file importing utility. For example, can be used to
skip a header and unpack a band interleaved by pixel image into one of
its components. Outputs only a raw image.
lablst
List out the vicar label. Almost the same as Òhead -1Ó.
makepyr
Make an image pyramid. Important to use this prior to working with
your large data sets in surveyor. See Surveyor user guide.
math
Shell script utility. Provides several mathematical operations such as
MULT (multiply), DIV, etc. on floating point numbers in a shell
script.
ramp
Nice utility to modify a Òlist of framesÓ type flight path
(output from surv2rend) for render and do things like Òslow to a
stop at this point, and start up smoothly at this point,Ó etc.
raw2vic
Convert a raw gray scale image to a vicar image.
render
Ray cast terrain renderer. Same renderer used in surveyor, but with
many more options available. See seperate user guide.
shuffle
Take two images of the same size, and write an image of the same size
where the odd lines are from the first image and the even lines are
from the second image. The first line in an image is odd (1).
sizedown
Scale an image in half (quarter area) using a simple 2x2 box average.
surv2path
Convert a surveyor path file to a 3DI path file. Only useful if you
have the VICAR program 3DI.
surv2rend
Convert a surveyor path file to a list of frames for the render
program.
survd
Do not run. This is the Surveyor rendering daemon, and if Surveyor has
been properly installed on your system this program will start up
automatically for each view you have active in Surveyor.
takeout
Take out a portion of an image.
vic2yuv
Convert a vicar file to a yuv file for sending to an Abekas.
vicpaste
Simple mosaic program. Slap one image on top of another at the given
location. Transparency optional.
weave
Take two images of the same size, and write an image which contains
twice as many lines, where the odd lines come from the first input and
the even lines from the second input. This program is useful for
combining the two halves of field-rendered frames for an ntsc frame
buffer.
xloadimage
Public domain image display program which has been modified for vicar
images. Understands gray scale vicar images, and also color vicar
images when given as a triplet seperated by commas. For example,
xloadimage a.red,a.grn,a.blu.
xv
Public domain image display program, modified to read gray scale vicar
images.