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# Line 10 | Line 10 | pabopto2bsdf - convert BSDF measurements to a scatteri
10   .B "\-n nproc"
11   ][
12   .B "\-s symmetry"
13 + ][
14 + .B "\-g angle | 'A'"
15   ]
16   .B "meas1 meas2 .."
17   .SH DESCRIPTION
18   .I Pabopto2bsdf
19   takes two or more pab-opto
20   .I Mountain
21 < files, each corresponding
22 < to a different incident beam angle, and produces a
23 < Scattering Interpolant Representation (SIR)
21 > files, each nominally containing
22 > different incident beam angles or sampling patterns,
23 > and produces a Scattering Interpolant Representation (SIR)
24   on the standard output for further processing.
25   The binary SIR contains a Radial Basis Function fitting
26   each incident BSDF data file
27 < and a "transport plan" between neighboring RBF
27 > and a "transport plan" matrix for each pair of neighboring RBF
28   directions in a spherical Delaunay mesh.
29   .PP
30   The SIR provides a complete 4-dimensional
# Line 96 | Line 98 | identical input coverage, so this is the only time the
98   .I \-s
99   option must be specified if the default mirroring is not appropriate.
100   .PP
101 + If a
102 + .I \-g
103 + option is present, it will cull scattered measurements that are nearer
104 + to grazing than the given angle in degrees.
105 + If the word "auto" (which can be abbreviated as 'a' or 'A') is given
106 + instead of an angle, then the near-grazing angle will be determined
107 + by the lowest incident angle measurement present in the input data.
108 + This is sometimes necessary to eliminate noise and edge effects that
109 + some measurements exhibit near grazing.
110 + .PP
111   The
112   .I Mountain
113   software operates the pg2 goniophotometer to
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122   .TP
123   .BR #sample_name
124   A double-quoted string containing the name associated with this sample.
125 < If input files contain different sample names, the one read
126 < will be the sample name passed to the SIR output.
125 > If input files contain different sample names, the final sample name read
126 > will be the one passed to the SIR output.
127   .TP
128   .BR #format:
129   The data format, typically one of "theta phi DSF" or "theta phi BSDF".
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264   utility, the world coordinate system follows trigonometric
265   conventions with theta=0 aligning to the Z-axis,
266   the X-axis matches (theta,phi)=(90,0), and the Y-axis
267 < is has (theta,phi)=(90,90).
267 > corresponds to (theta,phi)=(90,90).
268   The latter is thought of as the "up" direction for the sample.
269   This usually needs to be rotated into position, since most
270   RADIANCE models use the Z-axis as the world "up" direction.

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