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# Line 365 | Line 365 | accuracy and rendering time.
365   .TP
366   .BR -bv
367   Boolean switch for back face visibility.
368 < With this switch off, back faces of opaque objects will be invisible
369 < to all rays.
368 > With this switch off, back faces of all objects will be invisible
369 > to view rays.
370   This is dangerous unless the model was constructed such that
371 < all surface normals on opaque objects face outward.
371 > all surface normals face outward.
372   Although turning off back face visibility does not save much
373   computation time under most circumstances, it may be useful as a
374   tool for scene debugging, or for seeing through one-sided walls from
375   the outside.
376 This option has no effect on transparent or translucent materials.
376   .TP
377   .BI -av " red grn blu"
378   Set the ambient value to a radiance of
# Line 406 | Line 405 | indirect contributions, such as when both indoor and o
405   .BI -ab \ N
406   Set the number of ambient bounces to
407   .I N.
408 < This is the maximum number of diffuse bounces
409 < computed by the indirect calculation.
410 < A value of zero implies no indirect calculation.
408 > This is the maximum number of diffuse bounces computed by the indirect
409 > calculation. A value of zero implies no indirect calculation.
410 > .IP
411 > In photon mapping mode (see
412 > .I -ap
413 > below), a positive value implies that global photon irradiance is
414 > always computed via
415 > .I one
416 > ambient bounce. A negative value enables a preview mode that directly
417 > visualises the irradiance from the global photon map without any ambient
418 > bounces.
419   .TP
420   .BI -ar \ res
421   Set the ambient resolution to
# Line 517 | Line 524 | Same as
524   except read modifiers to be included from
525   .I file.
526   .TP
527 + .BI -ap " file [bwidth1 [bwidth2]]"
528 + Enable photon mapping mode. Loads a photon map generated with
529 + .I mkpmap(1)
530 + from
531 + .I file,
532 + and evaluates the indirect irradiance depending on the photon type
533 + (automagically detected) using density estimates with a bandwidth of
534 + .I bwidth1
535 + photons, or the default bandwidth if none is specified (a warning will be
536 + issued in this case).
537 + .IP
538 + Global photon irradiance is evaluated as part of the ambient calculation (see
539 + .I \-ab
540 + above), caustic photon irradiance is evaluated at primary rays, and
541 + indirect inscattering in
542 + .I mist
543 + is accounted for by volume photons.
544 + .IP
545 + Additionally specifying
546 + .I bwidth2
547 + enables bias compensation for the density estimates with a
548 + minimum and maximum bandwidth of
549 + .I bwidth1
550 + and
551 + .I bwidth2,
552 + respectively.
553 + .IP
554 + Global photon irradiance may be optionally precomputed by
555 + .I mkpmap(1),
556 + in which case the bandwidth, if specified, is ignored, as the nearest photon
557 + is invariably looked up.
558 + .IP
559 + Using direct photons replaces the direct calculation with density estimates
560 + for debugging and validation of photon emission.      
561 + .TP
562 + .BI -am " frac"
563 + Coefficient for maximum search radius for photon map lookups. The search
564 + radius is automatically determined based on the average photon distance to the
565 + distribution's centre of gravity, and scaled by this coefficient. Increase this
566 + value if multiple warnings about short photon lookups are issued.
567 + .TP
568   .BI -me " rext gext bext"
569   Set the global medium extinction coefficient to the indicated color,
570   in units of 1/distance (distance in world coordinates).
# Line 566 | Line 614 | option (above) may be used to override this.
614   .BR \-u
615   Boolean switch to control uncorrelated random sampling.
616   When "off", a low-discrepancy sequence is used, which reduces
617 < variance but can result in a brushed appearance in specular highlights.
617 > variance but can result in a dithered appearance in specular highlights.
618   When "on", pure Monte Carlo sampling is used in all calculations.
619   .TP
620   .BI -lr \ N
# Line 800 | Line 848 | this option turns them off.
848   rpict \-vp 10 5 3 \-vd 1 \-.5 0 scene.oct > scene.hdr
849   .PP
850   rpict \-S 1 \-o frame%02d.hdr scene.oct < keyframes.vf
851 + .PP
852 + To render ambient illuminance in photon mapping mode from a global photon
853 + map global.pm via one ambient bounce, and from a caustic photon map
854 + caustic.pm:
855 + .IP "" .2i
856 + rpict -ab 1 -ap global.pm 50 -ap caustic.pm 50 -vf scene.vf scene.oct >
857 + scene.hdr
858   .SH ENVIRONMENT
859   RAYPATH         the directories to check for auxiliary files.
860   .SH FILES
# Line 819 | Line 874 | option.
874   .SH AUTHOR
875   Greg Ward
876   .SH "SEE ALSO"
877 < getinfo(1), lookamb(1), oconv(1), pdfblur(1), pfilt(1), pinterp(1), pmblur(1),
878 < printf(3), ra_rgbe(1), rad(1), rtrace(1), rvu(1)
877 > getinfo(1), lookamb(1), mkpmap(1), oconv(1), pdfblur(1), pfilt(1),
878 > pinterp(1), pmblur(1), printf(3), ra_rgbe(1), rad(1), rtrace(1), rvu(1)
879 >

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