<html><head><title>Adding your face (Editing Wed Feb  6 12:35:59 EST 2013 version)</title><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><!-- FFFFE9 is acme yellow; FFFFE9 is as close as you can get to it before charon decides to use  grey instead of map entry 254 --><body bgcolor="#FFFFE9" link="#0000AA" alink="#0000AA" vlink="#0000AA"><center><font size=+2><b>Adding your face</b></font> (Editing Wed Feb  6 12:35:59 EST 2013 version)</center><p> For information on editing, see thedescription of <a href="../0">Plan 9 wiki syntax</a>.<p><form action="/magic/wikipost" method="post"><table><tr><td valign=top><input type="submit" name="x" value="Put"></td><td><table><tr><td align=right>(optional) Comment:</td><td><input type="text" name="comment" value="" cols=40></td></tr><tr><td align=right>(optional) Email:</td><td><input type="text" name="author" value="" cols=40></td></tr></table><input type="hidden" name="title" value="Adding your face"><input type="hidden" name="version" value="1360172159"><input type="hidden" name="service" value="plan9"><input type="hidden" name="base" value="/wiki/plan9"><p><textarea name="text" wrap="virtual" cols="80" rows="25">face(6) files are low resolution images that symbolize a person orgroup of people, for example a user, a company, a network provider,or a country. These files are read by the faces(1) command which uses them todisplay in its window, a small image for each user's mail box message. face files are usually created by rescaling either a gif or jpg image. ! jpg -c myface.jpg  | iconv -c m8 | resample -x 48 -y 48 > myface.1 If the image contains more than just your face or if the exposure isnon-optimal, Russ Cox has written a tool which allows you to trim andadjust your image, though this only writes black and white images. Mug insists for its input to be at least 100x100 pixels and the linebelow adds a white border around the image which is useful - givingyou room to maneuver when editing. ! jpg -c myface.jpg |  resample -x 100  |  crop -b 255 255 255 -i -30 |  mug > face.1 The manual page is mug(1). Once you have created your face, install it in/lib/face/48x48x8/f/face.1 (your directory path may vary) and edit/lib/face/.machines and /lib/face/48x48x8/.dict as appropriate (seefaces(1)). [9srv.net] maintains a public faces database. If you do not have a9srv account, you can execute! cd /lib/face && con -l tcp!9srv.net!50001 | gunzip | tar -xwhich will create a README file, a "people" directory, and a"domains" directory. This will not overwrite anything in the standarddistribution or changes you've made to .machinelist or any of the48x48xn directories. The README file contains more examples forgenerating faces. If your email address consists of only thecharacters [a-zA-Z0-9.@], you can add your face to the list bysending a correctly-generated face(6) file as an email attachment toadd at face dot 9srv dot net. Submissions for folks with other emailaddresses, as well as for additional domains, will be handledmanually; email a at 9srv dot net. SEE ALSO [Face the Nation by Rob Pike and David L. Presotto |http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/face_the_nation/]. There is a database of faces (picons in their terminology) atIndinana University. This includes the Usenix Face saver projectarchives, many company logos, and other misc images.[http://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/picons/ |http://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/picons/] </textarea><p></td></table></form> <hr><table width=100%><tr><td valign=center align=left></td><td valign=center align=right><a href="../about.html">About the server</a>| <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9"><img src="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/img/power36.gif"alt="Powered by Plan 9"></a></td></tr></table></html></body>