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1 greg 1.1 RCSid "$Id"
2    
3     Hello and welcome to the Radiance synthetic imaging system. This is
4 greg 1.3 the thirteenth release, Version 3.6, and it includes all source files
5 greg 1.1 for local compilation with a standard C compiler. To find out what's
6     new in this release, check the text file "doc/notes/ReleaseNotes".
7    
8     Radiance is OpenSource software copyrighted and distributed by
9     Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. By downloading
10     and installing this software, you are implicitly agreeing to the
11     OpenSource license appended to this README file. Please read it
12     carefully before proceeding -- this is very different from previous
13     licenses, and contains fewer restrictions on commercialization.
14    
15     Please read this entire file before sending e-mail asking
16     how to install this software or what to do with it. Some
17     frequently asked questions are answered here and also on our
18     web site at:
19    
20     http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/
21    
22     The website above should also have some precompiled Radiance binaries
23     and add-ons for common Unix platforms.
24    
25     We have attempted to make it easy for you (and for us) to install
26     the software on differently configured systems using a global make
27     script. To install the software, just type:
28    
29 greg 1.2 ./makeall install
30 greg 1.1
31     You can clean up the .o files and so forth with:
32    
33 greg 1.2 ./makeall clean
34 greg 1.1
35     Or, if you are confident you can do both at the same time with:
36    
37 greg 1.2 ./makeall install clean
38 greg 1.1
39     You can give other make options at the end of the command as well. For
40     example, the -n option will tell you what makeall is going to do without
41     actually doing it.
42    
43     If you downloaded the binaries, so compilation is not necessary,
44     run the following command to install the library files only:
45    
46 greg 1.2 ./makeall library
47 greg 1.1
48     The makeall may script ask you questions about your system and where you
49     want to install the executables and library files. The pathnames you
50     give should be relative to root for the programs to work properly. You
51     may also use the tilde ('~') character to give paths starting with
52     someone's home directory.
53    
54     If you do NOT have X11 support, please read the note "noX11.help" in
55     this directory. It explains what to change to make things work.
56    
57     Although it is set automatically by makeall, individuals may want to
58     set the RAYPATH environment variable manually. This variable tells
59     Radiance where to look for auxiliary files, and usually includes the
60     current directory as well as the system library (ray/lib in this
61     distribution). As you develop auxiliary files yourself, it is often
62     useful to add in your own library directory before the system directory.
63     An example setting such as this would go in a user's .login file:
64    
65     setenv RAYPATH .:${HOME}/mylib:/usr/local/lib/ray
66    
67     After installing the software, you may want to start by scanning the
68     troff input documentation contained in "doc/ray.1", which is also formatted
69     for web browsers in "doc/ray.html".
70     A PDF version of this manual may be found in
71     "doc/pdf/ray.pdf", along with an older tutorial by Cindy Larson,
72     "doc/pdf/raduser1_6.pdf".
73    
74     For complete documentation on the system as of release 3.1, refer to
75     "Rendering with Radiance" by Larson and Shakespeare, which used to be
76 greg 1.3 available from Morgan Kauffman Publishing. Recently, the authors have
77     taken over printing of the book, which is now available from booksurge.com.
78     You may find it linked to the Radiance website page:
79    
80     http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/book/
81    
82     The first chapter of this book, which includes a basic tutorial and
83     serves as a good introduction for new users, may be found in
84     "doc/pdf/RwR01.pdf".
85 greg 1.1
86     Important additions since version 3.1 include the holodeck programs (rholo,
87     etc., built in src/hd), glrad, ranimove, and the new "mesh" primitive,
88     suported by obj2mesh.
89    
90     Individual manual pages may be found in the subdirectory "doc/man".
91     You may want to copy these to the system manual directory, or add this
92     directory to your MANPATH environment variable in your shell
93     initialization file. A good starting place is to print the text file
94     ray/doc/man/whatis, which gives a one line description of each program in
95     the Radiance package. To print out the manual pages, use the "-man"
96     macro package.
97    
98     The most important program to learn about if you are a new user of Radiance
99     (or have not used this program before) is "rad". It controls Radiance
100     lighting parameters, and automates much of the rendering process.
101     To get started, change directory to obj/misc and try running:
102    
103     % rad -o x11 daf.rif
104    
105     This works if you are running X11. If you are not, you can still generate
106     an image with:
107    
108     % rad daf.rif &
109    
110     When the picture is done, you can convert it to another format for display
111     with any of the ra_* programs listed in the doc/whatis database.
112    
113     There is a user interface built on top of this using Tcl/Tk, called trad.
114     If you do not have Tcl/Tk installed on your system, you must do so prior
115     to building this distribution if you ant trad to install. (Try a google
116     search on "Tcl/Tk" or go to "http://www.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/".)
117    
118     If you have a question, you might start by looking in the Radiance Digest
119     archives, accessible from the Radiance web site. For current issues and
120     problems with this release, go to the radiance-online list at:
121    
122     http://www.radiance-online.org
123    
124     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
125     The Radiance Software License, Version 1.0
126    
127     Copyright (c) 1990 - 2002 The Regents of the University of California,
128     through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. All rights reserved.
129    
130     Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
131     modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
132     are met:
133    
134     1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
135     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
136    
137     2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
138     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
139     the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
140     distribution.
141    
142     3. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution,
143     if any, must include the following acknowledgment:
144     "This product includes Radiance software
145     (http://radsite.lbl.gov/)
146     developed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
147     (http://www.lbl.gov/)."
148     Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software itself,
149     if and wherever such third-party acknowledgments normally appear.
150    
151     4. The names "Radiance," "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory"
152     and "The Regents of the University of California" must
153     not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
154     software without prior written permission. For written
155     permission, please contact [email protected].
156    
157     5. Products derived from this software may not be called "Radiance",
158     nor may "Radiance" appear in their name, without prior written
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160    
161     THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED
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174    
175     This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
176     individuals on behalf of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. For more
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178     <http://www.lbl.gov/>.
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