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<p class="text-center"><a href="mogrify.html#MagickCommandGenesis">MagickCommandGenesis</a></p>
<h2><a href="../../api/MagickWand/mogrify_8c.html" id="MagickCommandGenesis">MagickCommandGenesis</a></h2>
<p>MagickCommandGenesis() applies image processing options to an image as prescribed by command line options.</p>
<p>It wiil look for special options like "-debug", "-bench", and "-distribute-cache" that needs to be applied even before the main processing begins, and may completely overrule normal command processing. Such 'Genesis' Options can only be given on the CLI, (not in a script) and are typically ignored (as they have been handled) if seen later.</p>
<p>The format of the MagickCommandGenesis method is:</p>
<pre class="text">
MagickBooleanType MagickCommandGenesis(ImageInfo *image_info,
MagickCommand command,int argc,char **argv,char **metadata,
ExceptionInfo *exception)
</pre>
<p>A description of each parameter follows:</p>
<dd>
</dd>
<dd> </dd>
<dl class="dl-horizontal">
<dt>image_info</dt>
<dd>the image info. </dd>
<dd> </dd>
<dt>command</dt>
<dd>Choose from ConvertImageCommand, IdentifyImageCommand, MogrifyImageCommand, CompositeImageCommand, CompareImagesCommand, ConjureImageCommand, StreamImageCommand, ImportImageCommand, DisplayImageCommand, or AnimateImageCommand. </dd>
<dd> </dd>
<dt>argc</dt>
<dd>Specifies a pointer to an integer describing the number of elements in the argument vector. </dd>
<dd> </dd>
<dt>argv</dt>
<dd>Specifies a pointer to a text array containing the command line arguments. </dd>
<dd> </dd>
<dt>metadata</dt>
<dd>any metadata is returned here. </dd>
<dd> </dd>
<dt>exception</dt>
<dd>return any errors or warnings in this structure. </dd>
<dd> </dd>
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