CAM2DAT

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: July 2012
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NAME

cam2dat - convert cam file to dat file

SYNOPSIS

This converts the multiplexed raw data from the IR camera into a 4 column ascii file (useful for fftplot etc).
Read data file data.cam, and generate a 4 column output (with #comments).
The output can be read by fftplot: it is compatible with the numpy.loadtxt().

DESCRIPTION

cam2dat converts the raw data file from the IR camera into a 4-column ascii data file.
Quadrants are de-interleaved into columns, but otherwise, the data remains interleaved:
see 'cam2tiff -h' for a diagram of the raster pattern.

The columns contain unsigned integers, from printf('%u'), and represent quadrants 0-3.
The file begins with some comments, prepended with '#'. The data is not otherwise
transformed; unlike cam2tiff, there is no bitshift <<8.
The file format is compatible with fftplot(1), and with Python's numpy.loadtxt().

USAGE: cam2dat [OPTIONS] input.cam output.dat #use '-' for stdout.
OPTIONS: -h, --help show help

AUTHOR

The author of cam2dat and this manual page is Richard Neill, <cam2tiff#AT(spamblock)#richardneill.org>
Copyright July 2012; this is Free Software (GPL v3+), see the source for copying conditions.