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image.rotatebeam - Function

1.1.1 rotate the image’s beam(s) counterclockwise through the specified angle.


Description

This method rotates the attached image’s beam(s) counterclockwise through the specified angle. This is the same thing as increasing the position angle(s) of the beam(s) by the specified angle. If the image does not have a beam, no changes to the image are made. If the image has multiple beams, all the beams are rotated through the same angle.

Arguments

Inputs

angle

Angle by which to rotate image’s beam(s). Default is no rotation.

allowed:

any

Default:

variant 0deg

Returns
bool

Example

 
# rotate any and all beams in the image (increase their position angles) by 30 degrees.  
ia.open("my.im")  
ia.rotatebeam("30deg")  
ia.done()  
 

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