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3 Hello and welcome to the Radiance synthetic imaging system. This is
4 the thirteenth release, Version 3.6, and it includes all source files
5 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 ./makeall install
30
31 You can clean up the .o files and so forth with:
32
33 ./makeall clean
34
35 Or, if you are confident you can do both at the same time with:
36
37 ./makeall install clean
38
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 ./makeall library
47
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 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
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
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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
159 permission of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
160
161 THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED
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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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