--- ray/doc/man/man1/rholo.1 2003/03/11 19:20:21 1.1 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/rholo.1 2011/01/12 23:35:58 1.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" RCSid "$Id" +.\" RCSid "$Id: rholo.1,v 1.5 2011/01/12 23:35:58 greg Exp $" .TH RHOLO 1 1/14/99 RADIANCE .SH NAME rholo - generate/view a RADIANCE holodeck @@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ rholo - generate/view a RADIANCE holodeck .I Rholo is a program for generating and viewing holodeck files. Similar to -.I rview(1), +.I rvu(1), .I rholo can compute views interactively, but unlike -.I rview, +.I rvu, it reuses any and all information that was previously computed in this or earlier runs using the given holodeck file, .I hdkfile. @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ I.e., the world distance between the pupils of the lef There is no default value for this variable. .TP .BR section -A section is a 6-sided parallel prism given by an origin and three axis +A section is a parallelepiped given by an origin and three axis vectors (i.e., 12 floating point values in world coordinates). The axis vectors define the three edges attached to the origin vertex, and the other edges and vertices are determined by the parallel wall @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ to obtain a view of what is outside that region. In object rendering mode, a section may instead contain a detailed object to be viewed from the outside. The grid dimensions for each axis may also be given by three additional -integer arguments following the prism axes. +integer arguments following the three axes. Otherwise, if the grid dimensions are left out or any are unspecified or zero, the "GRID" variable will be used to determine them from the section axis lengths. @@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ The following shows a minimal holodeck control variabl .IP "" .3i .nf RIF= sample.rif # rad input file -section= 2 2 4 5 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 3 # section prism boundaries +section= 2 2 4 5 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 3 # section parallelepiped origin & vectors .fi .PP Technically, the "RIF" setting is not necessary, but the results are @@ -548,13 +548,13 @@ We can invoke .I rholo on the above file to compute a hologram overnight in batch mode: .IP "" .2i -rholo -n 1 elect.hdk elect.hif TIME=12 & +rholo \-n 1 elect.hdk elect.hif TIME=12 & .PP This will report progress every hour to "elect.her". .PP The next morning, we can look at the holodeck interactively: .IP "" .2i -rholo -n 1 -o x11 elect.hdk & +rholo\-n 1 \-o x11 elect.hdk & .PP If the previous command were still running, the above command would fail because the permissions on the holodeck would not grant access. @@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ from another process, the following invocation will ov the file size limit and permit the holodeck to be clobbered by a command entered on the standard input: .IP "" .2i -rholo -n 1 -o x11 -i -f elect.hdk + DISK=0 +rholo \-n 1 \-o x11 \-i \-f elect.hdk + DISK=0 .PP To create an empty holodeck from settings on the command line: .IP "" .2i @@ -624,4 +624,4 @@ Global participating media are not handled correctly, participating media will usually work. .SH "SEE ALSO" chmod(1), ls(1), ps(1), rad(1), ranimate(1), rhcopy(1), rhinfo(1), -rhoptimize(1), rhpict(1), rpict(1), rtrace(1), rview(1) +rhoptimize(1), rhpict(1), rpict(1), rtrace(1), rvu(1)