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pamoil — Turn a PAM image into an oil painting. More information: <https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamoil.

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Problem

How to use the pamoil command: Turn a PAM image into an oil painting. More information: <https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamoil.html>.

Solution

pamoil — Turn a PAM image into an oil painting. More information: <https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamoil.html>.

Turn a PAM image into an oil painting:

pamoil {{path/to/input_file.pam}} > {{path/to/output_file.pam}}

Consider a neighborhood of n pixels for the "smearing" effect:

pamoil -n {{n}} {{path/to/input_file.pam}} > {{path/to/output_file.pam}}

Code Snippets

Turn a PAM image into an oil painting

pamoil {{path/to/input_file.pam}} > {{path/to/output_file.pam}}

Consider a neighborhood of `n` pixels for the "smearing" effect

pamoil -n {{n}} {{path/to/input_file.pam}} > {{path/to/output_file.pam}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/pamoil

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