--- ray/doc/man/man1/rcontrib.1	2012/06/14 22:49:34	1.4
+++ ray/doc/man/man1/rcontrib.1	2014/07/22 21:55:31	1.11
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" RCSid "$Id: rcontrib.1,v 1.4 2012/06/14 22:49:34 greg Exp $"
+.\" RCSid "$Id: rcontrib.1,v 1.11 2014/07/22 21:55:31 greg Exp $"
 .TH RCONTRIB 1 5/25/05 RADIANCE
 .SH NAME
 rcontrib - compute contribution coefficients in a RADIANCE scene
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ rcontrib - compute contribution coefficients in a RADI
 ][
 .B "\-o ospec"
 ][
+.B "\-p p1=V1,p2=V2"
+][
 .B "\-b binv"
 ][
 .B "\-bn nbins"
@@ -101,9 +103,9 @@ The
 option tells
 .I rcontrib
 how many rays to accumulate for each record.
-The default value is 1, meaning a full record will be produced for
+The default value is one, meaning a full record will be produced for
 each input ray.
-For values greater than 1, contributions will be averaged together
+For values greater than one, contributions will be averaged together
 over the given number of input rays.
 If set to zero, only a single record will be produced at the very
 end, corresponding to the sum of all rays given on the input
@@ -113,8 +115,9 @@ This is equivalent to passing all the output records t
 to sum RGB values together, but is much more efficient.
 Using this option, it is possible to reverse sampling, sending rays from
 a parallel source such as the sun to a diffuse surface, for example.
-Note that output flushing via zero-direction rays is disabled
-for accumulated evaluations.
+Note that output flushing via zero-direction rays is disabled with
+.I \-c
+set to zero.
 .PP
 The output of
 .I rcontrib
@@ -158,7 +161,7 @@ this will be applied to a "%d" format in the output fi
 specification if present.
 The actual bin number is computed at run time based on ray direction
 and surface intersection, as described below.
-If the number of bins is known in advance, it should be specified with the
+The number of bins must be specified in advance with the
 .I \-bn
 option, and this is critical for output files containing multiple values
 per record.
@@ -168,10 +171,10 @@ it has been defined via a previous
 or
 .I \-e
 option.
-Since bin numbers start from 0, the bin count is always equal to
-the last bin plus 1.
-Set the this value to 0 if the bin count is unknown (the default).
+Since bin numbers start from zero, the bin count is always equal to
+the last bin plus one.
 The most recent
+.I \-p,
 .I \-b,
 .I \-bn
 and
@@ -185,7 +188,7 @@ and
 .I \-y
 if the
 .I \-c
-is 0, when they control the resolution string
+is zero, when they control the resolution string
 produced in the corresponding output.
 .PP
 If a
@@ -201,8 +204,17 @@ These parameters may be combined with definitions give
 arguments and files read using the
 .I \-f
 option.
+Additional parameter values that apply only to this modifier may be specified
+with a
+.I \-p
+option, which contains a list of variable names and assigned values, separated
+by commas or semicolons.
 The computed bin value will be
 rounded to the nearest whole number.
+(Negative bin values will be silently ignored.)\0
+For a single bin, you may specify
+.I "\-b 0",
+which is the default.
 This mechanism allows the user to define precise regions or directions
 they wish to accumulate, such as the Tregenza sky discretization,
 which would be otherwise impossible to specify
@@ -211,7 +223,7 @@ The rules and predefined functions available for these
 described in the
 .I rcalc(1)
 man page.
-Unlike
+Like
 .I rcalc,
 .I rcontrib
 will search the RADIANCE library directories for each file given in a
@@ -286,12 +298,13 @@ pcomb \-c 100 90 75 c_light1.hdr \-c 50 55 57 c_light2
 .PP
 To compute an array of illuminance contributions according to a Tregenza sky:
 .IP "" .2i
-rcontrib \-I+ \-b tbin \-o sky.dat \-m skyglow \-b 0 \-o ground.dat \-m groundglow
-@render.opt \-f tregenza.cal scene.oct < test.dat
+rcontrib \-I+ \-f tregenza.cal \-b tbin \-bn Ntbins \-o sky.dat \-m skyglow
+\-b 0 \-o ground.dat \-m groundglow @render.opt scene.oct < test.dat
 .SH ENVIRONMENT
 RAYPATH		path to search for \-f and \-M files
 .SH AUTHOR
 Greg Ward
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 cnt(1), genklemsamp(1), getinfo(1), pcomb(1), pfilt(1), ra_rgbe(1),
-rcalc(1), rpict(1), rsensor(1), rtrace(1), total(1), vwrays(1), ximage(1)
+rcalc(1), rfluxmtx(1), rmtxop(1),
+rpict(1), rsensor(1), rtrace(1), total(1), vwrays(1), ximage(1)