NAME

       evolvotron_render - Render an evolvotron function tree to an image.

SYNOPSIS

       evolvotron_render [options] imagefile.[png|ppm]

DESCRIPTION

       evolvotron_render  reads  an evolvotron image function from its standard input and renders it to an image
       in the file specified (suffix determines type, defaults to ppm if not recognised).

       Image  functions  can  be  obtained  by  saving  them  from  the   evolvotron   applicaiton,   or   using
       evolvotron_mutate.

       See  the  evolvotron manual (accessible from the evolvotron application's Help menu) for more information
       on image functions.

COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS

       -f, --frames
            frames Generates multi-frame animations.  .fnnnnnn is inserted into the specified  filename  (before
            the  filetype  suffix,  if  any).   You can use this on functions which weren't evolved in animation
            mode, but there's no guarantee they have any interesting time/z variation.

       -h, --help
            Display a summary of command-line options and exit.

       -j, --jitter
            Enable sample jittering.

       -m, --multisample
            multisample Enables antialiased rendering.  This specifies the size of the sub-pixel sampling  grid,
            so 1 provides the default one-sample-per-pixel behaviour, while 4 provides 16 samples per pixel on a
            4x4  grid.  Unlike the main evolvotron application, there is no upper limit, but of course rendering
            time increases as the square of this number.

       -o, --output
            imagefile.[ppm|png] This option is an alternative to specifying the output filename as a  positional
            argument.

       -s, --size
            widthxheight Specify resolution of output image.  Defaults to 512x512.

       -v, --verbose
            Verbose mode; useful for monitoring progress of large renders.

EXAMPLES

       evolvotron_mutate -g | evolvotron_render -s 1024x1024 function.ppm

AUTHOR

       evolvotron_render was written by Tim Day (www.timday.com) and is released under the conditions of the GNU
       General Public License.  See the file LICENSE supplied with the source code for details.

SEE ALSO

       evolvotron(1), evolvotron_mutate(1)

www.timday.com                                     16 Oct 2009                              EVOLVOTRON_RENDER(1)