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NAME
       create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect - bitmap generator for a circular conductor
       inside a	rectangular conductor (part of atlc)

SYNOPSIS
       create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect [options... ] d W H x y Er outfile.bmp

WARNING
       This  man  page is not a	complete set of	documentation -	the complexity
       of the atlc project makes man pages not an ideal	way  to	 document  it,
       although	 out  of completeness, man pages are produced.	The best docu-
       mentation that was current at the time the version was produced	should
       be found	on your	hard drive, usually at
       /usr/local/share/atlc/docs/html-docs/index.html
       although	 it  might  be elsewhere if your system	administrator chose to
       install the package elsewhere. Sometimes, errors	are corrected  in  the
       documentation  and  placed at http://atlc.sourceforge.net/ before a new
       release of atlc is released.  Please, if	you notice a problem with  the
       documentation - even spelling errors and	typos, please let me know.

DESCRIPTION
       create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect  is	a  pre-processor  for atlc, the	finite
       difference program that is used to calculate the	properties of  a  two-
       conductor  electrical transmission line of arbitrary cross section. The
       program create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect is used as a	fast way of generating
       bitmaps (there is no need to use	a graphics program),  for  a  circular
       conductor inside	a rectangular conductor, like this:

       --------------------------------------------------------	 ^
       |						      |	 |
       |						      |	 |
       |						      |	 |
       |						      |	 |
       |						      |	 |
       |	   Dielectric, permittivity=Er		      |	 |
       |						      |	 |
       |						      |	 |
       |						      |	 |
       |						      |	 |
       |	 <------x------> ^			      |	 H
       |       *****		 |			      |	 |
       |    ***********		 y			      |	 |
       |   *************	 |			      |	 |
       |   **************	 |			      |	 |
       |   <-----d------>	 v			      |	 |
       |   **************				      |	 |
       |   *************				      |	 |
       |    ***********					      |	 |
       |	***					      |	 |
       |						      |	 |
       -------------------------------------------------------	 v
       <---------------------------W-------------------------->

       The  parameters	'W' and	'H' and	the inner dimensions of	the outer con-
       ductor.	The inner conductor has	a diameter of 'd' and is  offset  from
       the centre of the outer conductor by an amount 'x' horizontally and 'y'
       vertically.   The space between the inner and outer conductors is a di-
       electric	of relative permittivity 'Er'. If there	is just	a  vacuum  di-
       electric, then 'Er' should be set to 1.0

       The  bitmap is printed to standard output, which	MUST be	re-directed to
       either a	file in	one of the following two ways.

       create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect  d W	H x y Er > filename.bmp	OR
       create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect -f filename.bmp d W H x y Er

       The bitmaps produced  by	 create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect  are  24-bit  bit
       colour bitmaps, as are required by atlc.

       The permittivities of the bitmap, set by	'Er', determine	the colours in
       the bitmap. If Er1 is 1.0, 1.006, 2.1, 2.2, 2.33, 2.5, 3.3, 3.335, 3.7,
       4.8,  10.2  or  100  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	permittivities,	the region of permittivity Er will  be
       set  to	the colour 0xCAFF00. The program atlc does not know what these
       permittivites are, so atlc, must	be told	with the -d command  line  op-
       tion, 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  de-
       fault  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

       -v
       Causes create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect to print some	data to	stderr.	 Note,
       nothing	extra goes to standard output, as that is expected to be redi-
       rected to a bitmap file.

COLOURS
       The 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 lev-
       els of red, green and blue,  making  a  total  of  256*256*256=16777216
       colours.	  Every	 one  of  the possible 16777216	colours	can be defined
       precisely by the	stating	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, turquoise, sandy, brown, gray etc may mean
       slightly	different things to different people.  This  is	 not  so  with
       atlc, as	the program 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.
       black  =	000,000,000 or 0x000000	is the negative	conductor

       All  bitmaps  must  have	the live (red) and grounded (green) conductor.
       The black conductor is not currently supported, but it will be used  to
       indicate	a negative conductor, which will be needed if/when the program
       gets extended to	analyse	directional couplers.

       The following dielectrics are recognised	by atlc	and so are produced by
       create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect.

       white	 255,255,255 or	0xFFFFFF as Er=1.0   (vacuum)
       white	 255,202,202 or	0xFFCACA as Er=1.0006 (air)
       blue	 000,000,255 or	0x0000FF 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)
       Turquoise 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 213,160,077 or	0xD5A04D as Er=100   (for testing)
       If  the	permittivity is	one not	in the above list, then	those parts of
       the image with Er1 will be set to 0xCAFF00, and those parts with	Er2 to
       0xAC82AC.

EXAMPLES
       Here are	a few examples	of  the	 use  of  create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect.
       Again, see the html documentation in atlc-X.Y.Z/docs/html-docs for more
       examples.

       In  the first example, there is just an air dielectric, so Er1=Er2=1.0.
       The inner of 1x1	inches (or mm, miles etc) is placed  centrally	in  an
       outer with dimensions 3 x 3 inches.

       The  exact  place where the dielectric starts (a) and its width (d) are
       unimportant, but	they must still	be entered.

       % create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 > ex1.bmp
       % atlc ex1.bmp

       In this second example, an inner	of 15.0	mm x 0.5 mm is	surrounded  by
       an  outer with internal dimensions of 61.5 x 20.1 mm. There is a	mater-
       ial with	permittivity 2.1 (Er of	PTFE) below the	inner  conductor.  The
       output  from  create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect  is  sent  to a file ex1.bmp,
       which is	then processed by atlc

       % create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect 61.5 20.1 5 22 0.5	50  15	5  1.0	2.1  >
       ex2.bmp
       % atlc ex2.bmp

       In example 3, the bitmap	is made	larger,	to increase accuracy, but oth-
       erwise	this   is   identical	to   the   second   example.   %  cre-
       ate_bmp_for_circ_in_rect	-b7 61.5 20.1 5	22 0.5	50  15	5  1.0	2.1  >
       ex3.bmp
       % atlc ex3.bmp

       In    the    fourth    example,	  instead    of	   re-directing	  cre-
       ate_bmp_for_circ_in_rect's output to a file with	the > sign, it is done
       using the -f option.
       % create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect -f	ex4.bmp	61.5 20.1 5 22 0.5 50 15 5 1.0
       2.1
       % atlc ex4.bmp

       In the fifth example, materials with permittivites 2.78	and  7.89  are
       used.	While	 there	 is   no   change   in	 how   to   use	  cre-
       ate_bmp_for_circ_in_rect, since these permittivities are	not known,  we
       must  tell atlc what they are.  % create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect 61	20 1 4
       22 0.5 50 15 5 2.78 7.89	> ex5.bmp % atlc -d CAFF00=2.78	-d AC82AC=7.89
       ex5.bmp In the sixth and	final example, the -v option is	used to	 print
       some extra data to stderr from create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect.

SEE ALSO
       atlc(1)	create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ(1)	create_bmp_for_microstrip_cou-
       pler(1)		   create_bmp_for_rect_cen_in_rect(1)		  cre-
       ate_bmp_for_rect_cen_in_rect_coupler(1)	create_bmp_for_rect_in_circ(1)
       create_bmp_for_rect_in_rect(1) create_bmp_for_stripline_coupler(1) cre-
       ate_bmp_for_symmetrical_stripline(1) design_coupler(1) find_optimal_di-
       mensions_for_microstrip_coupler(1) readbin(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

Dr. David Kirkby	      atlc-4.4.2 10/09/03  create_bmp...irc_in_rect(1)

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