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quick hack to render current time as an ImageJ text image
XRES=180
YRES=32
convert -size ${XRES}x${YRES} \
-background white \
-fill black \
-pointsize $YRES label:"$(date +%X)" \
-colorspace gray \
-compress none \
-depth 8 PGM:- |
tail -n +4 |
tr -d "\n" |
xargs -n $XRES > Desktop/imagej_textimage.txt
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