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Revision: 1.1
Committed: Thu Jun 23 18:11:17 2011 UTC (12 years, 11 months ago) by greg
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Create pkgBSDF program

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1 .\" RCSid $Id$
2 .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 .PP
24 The
25 .I \-i
26 option causes
27 .I pkgBSDF
28 to produce frozen octree instances for any detail geometry,
29 which may reduce memory requirements in scenes with many
30 references to the same complex BSDF object.
31 .PP
32 Normally,
33 .I pkgBSDF
34 produces one RADIANCE scene file for each XML input, replacing
35 the required '.xml' suffix with '.rad' in the same directory.
36 The
37 .I \-s
38 option sends the RADIANCE scene description to the standard
39 output rather than writing it to a file, but only works
40 for a single XML input.
41 Any instance octree is still written out to a file generated
42 by replacing the '.xml' suffix with '.oct' in the same directory.
43 .SH EXAMPLE
44 Package all the XML files in the current directory as Radiance
45 scene files, employing frozen octree instances for any
46 detail geometry:
47 .IP "" .2i
48 pkgBSDF -i *.xml
49 .SH AUTHOR
50 Greg Ward
51 .SH "SEE ALSO"
52 genBSDF(1), oconv(1), xform(1)