--- ray/doc/man/man1/rpict.1 2018/03/20 02:40:38 1.23 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/rpict.1 2019/06/09 17:48:13 1.25 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" RCSid "$Id: rpict.1,v 1.23 2018/03/20 02:40:38 greg Exp $" +.\" RCSid "$Id: rpict.1,v 1.25 2019/06/09 17:48:13 rschregle Exp $" .TH RPICT 1 2/26/99 RADIANCE .SH NAME rpict - generate a RADIANCE picture @@ -595,14 +595,10 @@ mapping, taking into account the pagesize specified by .I \-ac. Note that this is approximate as the number of cache pages is rounded to the nearest prime. This allows adapting the cache to the available physical -memory. In conjunction with the -.I \-n -option, this is the cache size -.I per parallel process. -Cache performance is less sensitive to this parameter, -and reasonable performance can obtained with as few as 10k photons. The -default is 1M. This option recognises multiplier suffixes (k = 1e3, M = -1e6), both in upper and lower case. +memory. Cache performance is less sensitive to this parameter, and reasonable +performance can obtained with as few as 10k photons. The default is 1M. This +option recognises multiplier suffixes (k = 1e3, M = 1e6), both in upper and +lower case. .TP .BI -me " rext gext bext" Set the global medium extinction coefficient to the indicated color, @@ -666,8 +662,8 @@ is zero, then Russian roulette is used for ray termination, and the .I -lw setting (below) must be positive. -If N is a negative integer, then this sets the upper limit -of reflections past which Russian roulette will be used. +If N is a negative integer, then this limits the maximum +number of reflections even with Russian roulette. In scenes with dielectrics and total internal reflection, a setting of 0 (no limit) may cause a stack overflow. .TP