# ppmshift

Updated: 20 November 2008
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## NAME

ppmshift - shift lines of a PPM image left or right by a random amount

## SYNOPSIS

ppmshift shift [ppmfile]

## DESCRIPTION

This program is part of Netpbm.

ppmshift reads a PPM image as input. It shifts every row of image data to the left or right by a random amount, within a range of shift pixels. The random distribution is uniform, centered at zero movement.

The randomness in the image is limited before Netpbm 10.37 (December 2006) -- if you run the program twice in the same second, you may get identical output.

This is an effect the author intended to use for MPEG tests. Unfortunately, this program is not useful for that - it creates too random patterns to be used for animations. Still, it might give interesting results on still images.

## EXAMPLE

Check this out: Save your favorite model's picture from something like alt.binaries.pictures.supermodels (ok, or from any other picture source), convert it to ppm, and process it e.g. like this, assuming the picture is 800x600 pixels:

         #take the upper half, and leave it like it is
         pamcut -top=0 -width=800 -height=300 cs.ppm >upper.ppm

         #take the lower half, flip it upside down, dim it and distort it a little
         pamcut -top=300 -width=800 -height=300 cs.ppm | \
             pamflip -topbottom | \
             ppmdim 0.7 | \
             ppmshift 10 >lower.ppm

         #and concatenate the two pieces
         pnmcat -topbottom upper.ppm lower.ppm >newpic.ppm

The resulting picture looks like the image being reflected on a water surface with slight ripples.

## SEE ALSO

ppm, pamcut, pamflip, ppmdim, pnmcat

## AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1993 by Frank Neumann

## Table Of Contents

- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- EXAMPLE
- SEE ALSO
- AUTHOR