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NAMErect_cen_in_rect - bitmap generator for rectangular conduc- tor inside rectangular conductor (part of atlc) SYNOPSISrect_cen_in_rect [options... ] W H w h Er WARNINGThis man page is not a complete set of documentation. See the html files for more complete information. So far, I've not managed to install the html files into /usr/local, so you will have to look into the atlc-2.X.Y.Z/docs/html-docs directory for them. DESCRIPTIONrect_cen_in_rect is a pre-processor for atlc, the finite difference programme that is used to calculate the proper- ties of a two-conductor electrical transmission line of arbitrary cross section. The programme rect_cen_in_rect is used as a fast way of generating bitmaps (there is no need to use a graphics programme), for a rectangular conductor placed centrally inside another rectangular conductor, like this: ----------------------------------------------------- ^ | | | | Dielectric, permittivity=Er | | | | | | | | | | | | <----------w-----------> | | | ------------------------ ^ | | | | | | | | | | Metallic conductor | | | H | | conductor (must be | h | | | | in the centre) | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------ ^ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------- | <---------------------------W-----------------------> The parameters 'W' and 'H' and the inner dimensions of the outer conductor. The outer dimensions of the inner conduc- tor are 'w' and 'h'. The inner conductor is assumed be be placed centrally inside the outer conductor. The spaced between the two conductors is filled with a dielectric of relative permittivity Er The bitmap is printed to standard output, which MUST be re- directed to either a file, or piped into the standard input of atlc, in one of the following two ways. rect_cen_in_rect W H w h Er > filename.bmp OR rect_cen_in_rect -f filename.bmp W H w h Er The bitmaps produced by rect_cen_in_rect are 24-bit bit colour bitmaps, as required by atlc. The permittivity of the bitmap, set by 'Er', determine the colours in the bitmap. If Er is 1.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.33, 2.5, 3.3, 3.335, 4.8 or 10.2, then the colour corresponding to that permittivity will be set according to the colours defined in COLOURS below. If Er is not one of those permit- tivities, the region of permittivity Er will be set to the colour 0xCAFF00. The programme atlc does not know what these permittivites are, so they atlc, must be told with the comand line option -d, as in example 4 below. OPTIONS-b bitmapsize is used to set the size of the bitmap, and so the accuracy to which atlc is able to calculate the transmission line's properties. The default value for 'bitmapsize' is normally 4, although this is set at compile time. The value can be set anywhere from 1 to 15, but more than 8 is probably not sensible. -f outfile Set the output filename. By default, the bitmap is sent to stdout, but it *must* be sent to a file, with this option, or as described above. -v Causes rect_cen_in_rect to print some data to stderr. Note, nothing extra goes to standard output, as that is expected to be redirected to a bitmap file. COLOURSThe 24-bit bitmaps that atlc expects, have 8 bits assigned to represent the amount of red, 8 for blue and 8 for green. Hence there are 256 levels of red, green and blue, making a total of 256*256*256=16777216 colours. Every one of the pos- sible 16777216 colours can be defined precisely by the stat- ing the exact amount of red, green and blue, as in: red = 255,000,000 or 0xff0000 green = 000,255,000 or 0x00ff00 blue = 000,000,255 or 0x0000ff black = 000,000,000 or 0x000000 white = 255,255,255 or 0xffffff Brown = 255,000,255 or 0xff00ff gray = 142,142,142 or 0x8e8e8e Some colours, such as pink, turquiose, sandy, brown, gray etc may mean slightly different things to different people. This is not so with atlc, as the programme expects the colours below to be EXACTLY defined as given. Whether you feel the colour is sandy or yellow is up to you, but if you use it in your bitmap, then it either needs to be a colour recognised by atlc, or you must define it with a command line option (see OPTIONS and example 5 below). The following conductors are recognised by atlc: red = 255,000,000 or 0xff0000 is the live conductor. green = 000,255,000 or 0x00ff00 is the grounded conductor. blue = 000,000,000 or 0x000000 is the negative conductor All bitmaps must have the live (red) and grounded (green) conductor. The blue conductor is not currently supported, but it will be used to indicate a negative conductor, which will be needed if/when the programme gets extended to analyse directional couplers. The following dielectrics are recognised by atlc and so are produced by rect_cen_in_rect. white 255,255,255 or 0xFFFFFF as Er=1.0 (vacuum) pink 255,202,202 or 0xFFCACA as Er=1.0006 (air) light blue 130,052,255 or 0x8235Ef as Er=2.1 (PTFE) Mid gray 142,242,142 or 0x8E8E8E as Er=2.2 (duroid 5880) mauve 255.000,255 or 0xFF00FF as Er=2.33 (polyethylene) yellow 255,255,000 or 0xFFFF00 as Er=2.5 (polystyrene) sandy 239,203,027 or 0xEFCC1A as Er=3.3 (PVC) brown 188,127,096 or 0xBC7F60 as Er=3.335 (epoxy resin) Terquoise 026,239,179 or 0x1AEFB3 as Er=4.8 (glass PCB) Dark gray 142,142,142 or ox696969 as Er=6.15 (duroid 6006) L. gray 240,240,240 or 0xDCDCDC as Er=10.2 (duroid 6010) D. orange 213,130,067 or 0xD5A04D as Er=100.0 (mainly for test purposes) If the permittivity is one not in the above list, then those parts of the image with Er will be set to 0xCAFF00. EXAMPLESHere are a few examples of the use of rect_cen_in_rect. Again, see the html documentation in atlc-X.Y.Z/docs/html- doc/index.html for more examples. 1) In the first example, there is just a vacuum dielectric, so Er=1.0. The inner of 1x1 inches (or mm, miles etc) is placed centrally in an outer with dimensions 3.3 x 3.9 inches. % rect_cen_in_rect 3.3 3.9 1 1 1 > 1.bmp % atlc 1.bmp 2) In this second example, an inner of 15.0 mm x 5.0 mm is surrounded by an outer with internal dimensions of 71.5 x 60.0 mm. There is a material with permittivity 2.1 (Er of PTFE) around the inner conductor. The output from rect_cen_in_rect is sent to a file 2.bmp, which is then pro- cessed by atlc % rect_cen_in_rect 71.5 60.0 15.0 5.0 2.1 > 2.bmp % atlc 2.bmp 3) In example 3, the bitmap is made larger, to increase accuracy, but otherwise this is identical to the second example. % rect_cen_in_rect -b7 71.5 60 15 5 2.1 > 3.bmp % atlc 3.bmp In the fourth example, instead of re-directing rect_cen_in_rect's output to a file with the > sign, it is done using the -f option. % rect_cen_in_rect -f 4.bmp 61.5 28.1 5 22 2.1 % atlc 4.bmp SEE ALSOatlc(1), circ_in_circ(1). rect_in_rect(1), circ_in_rect(1). rect_in_circ(1), readbin(1) and sym_strip(1). http://atlc.sourceforge.net - Home page http://sourceforge.net/projects/atlc - Download area atlc-X.Y.Z/docs/html-docs/index.html - HTML docs atlc-X.Y.Z/docs/qex-december-1996/atlc.pdf - theory paper atlc-X.Y.Z/examples - examples http://www.david-kirkby.co.uk - my home page http://www.david-kirkby.co.uk/ham - ham radio pages Man(1) output converted with man2html |