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Revision: 1.2
Committed: Thu Jun 23 18:17:12 2011 UTC (13 years, 10 months ago) by greg
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.1: +7 -1 lines
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Added description of standard orientation and units

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1 greg 1.2 .\" RCSid $Id: pkgBSDF.1,v 1.1 2011/06/23 18:11:17 greg Exp $
2 greg 1.1 .TH PKGBSDF 1 6/23/2011 RADIANCE
3     .SH NAME
4     pkgBSDF - package BSDFs provided as XML for Radiance
5     .SH SYNOPSIS
6     .B pkgBSDF
7     [
8     .B \-i
9     ][
10     .B \-s
11     ]
12     .B "bsdf.xml .."
13     .SH DESCRIPTION
14     .I PkgBSDF
15     takes one or more XML files, each describing the bidirectional scattering
16     distribution function of a surface or geometric system, and packages
17     them into RADIANCE scene descriptions.
18     One rectangle is produced for each BSDF that has
19     no detail geometry and/or no rear-side reflectance distribution.
20     If both front and back reflectance distributions are present with
21     detail geometry, then two rectangles will be used to sandwich
22     the geometry extracted from the BSDF file.
23 greg 1.2 The front surface will always be centered just in front of the
24     origin facing the positive Z-direction, with "up" in the positive
25     Y-direction.
26     The back surface, if present, will parallel the front surface at
27     a distance slightly greater than the BSDF system thickness.
28     Scene units will always be in meters.
29 greg 1.1 .PP
30     The
31     .I \-i
32     option causes
33     .I pkgBSDF
34     to produce frozen octree instances for any detail geometry,
35     which may reduce memory requirements in scenes with many
36     references to the same complex BSDF object.
37     .PP
38     Normally,
39     .I pkgBSDF
40     produces one RADIANCE scene file for each XML input, replacing
41     the required '.xml' suffix with '.rad' in the same directory.
42     The
43     .I \-s
44     option sends the RADIANCE scene description to the standard
45     output rather than writing it to a file, but only works
46     for a single XML input.
47     Any instance octree is still written out to a file generated
48     by replacing the '.xml' suffix with '.oct' in the same directory.
49     .SH EXAMPLE
50     Package all the XML files in the current directory as Radiance
51     scene files, employing frozen octree instances for any
52     detail geometry:
53     .IP "" .2i
54     pkgBSDF -i *.xml
55     .SH AUTHOR
56     Greg Ward
57     .SH "SEE ALSO"
58     genBSDF(1), oconv(1), xform(1)