Image Processing By Interp and Extrapolation(5) File Formats Manual : (NAME) extendedopacity - netpbm (DESCRIPTION) http://www.sgi.com/misc/grafica/interp Netpbm . . (IMAGE PROCESSING BY INTERPOLATION AND EXTRAPOLATION) Paul Haeberli and Douglas Voorhies (Introduction) . ( ) . . . (alpha) (1 - alpha) : out = (1 - alpha)*in0 + alpha*in1 alpha 0.0 1.0 . . alpha 0.0 1.0 . in0 in1 . 0.0 . (Degenerate) " " . . . / . alpha . alpha X Y alpha . (Changing Brightness) ( alpha ) . . . brightness (Changing Contrast) . . alpha . . contrast . . (Changing Saturation) (Luminance) . . HSV . . alpha (Hue) . saturation (Sharpening an Image) . (Unsharp masking) . alpha . (Separable) . sharpening . . . . (Combined Processing) / . . combined (Conclusion) . . " " . . . . . . alpha 0.0 1.0 . 0.0 1.0 . . (References) : P. Haeberli and D. Voorhies. Image Processing by Linear Interpolation and Extrapolation. IRIS Universe Magazine No. 28, Silicon Graphics, Aug, 1994. (DOCUMENT SOURCE) 'makeman' Netpbm HTML . : http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/extendedopacity.html netpbm documentation Image Processing By Interp and Extrapolation(5)