--- ray/doc/man/man1/mksource.1 2005/04/12 20:03:12 1.2 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/mksource.1 2015/11/24 21:11:14 1.6 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" RCSid "$Id: mksource.1,v 1.2 2005/04/12 20:03:12 greg Exp $" +.\" RCSid "$Id: mksource.1,v 1.6 2015/11/24 21:11:14 greg Exp $" .TH MKSOURCE 1 04/11/05 RADIANCE .SH NAME mksource - compute distant sources for RADIANCE image-based lighting @@ -30,15 +30,15 @@ The .I \-d option may be used to specify the number of ray samples, which defaults to 262,000. -Calculation time is roughly proportional to accuracy, and the -default is fine enough to find sources the size of the sun +Calculation time is roughly proportional to this setting, and the +default is fine enough to resolve sources the size of the sun (half a degree) or larger. .PP The .I \-t option may be used to manually set the radiance threshold for sources, in watts/sr/meter^2. -The default uses the top 1 percentile of the environment, which +The default uses the top 2 percentile of the environment, which is usally a good value. .PP The @@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ silently enforces a maximum of 180 degrees for this op If no input octree is specified, the standard input is read. .SH EXAMPLE To add sources with a maximum size of 20 degrees -to the enviornment described in environ.oct: +to the environment described in environ.oct: .IP "" .2i -mksource -a 20 environ.oct > srcs.rad +mksource \-a 20 environ.oct > srcs.rad .br -oconv -i environ.oct srcs.rad > env+srcs.oct +oconv \-i environ.oct srcs.rad > env+srcs.oct .SH AUTHOR Greg Ward .SH "SEE ALSO"