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NAME
pgmnoise - create a PGM image made up of white noise

SYNOPSIS
pgmnoise width height

[-maxval=n] [-randomseed=integer]

Minimum unique abbreviations of option are acceptable. You may use double hyphens instead
of single hyphen to denote options. You may use white space in place of the equals sign
to separate an option name from its value.

DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).

pgmnoise creates a PGM image that is made up of pixels of random brightness.

You specify the dimensions of the image with the width and height arguments.

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.

OPTIONS
-maxval=n
The maxval of the generated image.

Default is 255.

This option was new in Netpbm 10.63 (June 2013).

-randomseed=integer
This is the seed for the random number generator that generates the pixels.

Use this to ensure you get the same image on separate invocations.

By default, pgmnoise uses a seed derived from the time of day and process ID, which
gives you fairly uncorrelated results in multiple invocations.

This option was new in Netpbm 10.45 (December 2008).