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# Line 29 | Line 29 | rsensor - compute sensor signal from a RADIANCE scene
29   }
30   .B octree
31   .br
32 + .B rsensor
33 + [
34 + .B -h
35 + ]
36 + {
37 + [
38 + .B -rd nrays
39 + ][
40 + .B sensor_view
41 + ]
42 + .B sensor_file ..
43 + }
44 + .B "."
45 + .br
46   .B "rsensor [ options ] \-defaults"
47   .SH DESCRIPTION
48   .I Rsensor
# Line 38 | Line 52 | sensors into the RADIANCE scene given by
52   sending the computed sensor value to the standard output.
53   (The octree may be given as the output of a command enclosed in quotes
54   and preceded by a `!'.)\0
55 < In the second form, the default values
55 > In the second form, a single period ('.') is given in place of an
56 > octree, and the origin and directions of the specified
57 > number of rays will be printed on the standard output.
58 > If these rays are later traced and added together, the results
59 > will sum to a signal proportional to the given sensor distribution.
60 > In the third form, the default values
61   for the options (modified by those options present)
62   are printed with a brief explanation.
63   .PP
# Line 70 | Line 89 | The actual data contained in the sensor file correspon
89   tab-separated matrix specification, where the
90   column header has "degrees" in the leftmost column, followed
91   by evenly-spaced azimuthal angles.
92 + Azimuth angles must start at 0 and proceed to at least 270 degrees.
93 + No symmetry is applied to missing values.
94   Each row begins with the polar angle, and is followed by the
95   relative sensitivity values for each direction.
96 + Polar angles must start from 0 and continue to the edge of
97 + the sensor's view.
98 + Polar angles above the last row listed are assumed to have
99 + zero sensitivity.
100   A low-resolution example of a sensor file is given below:
101   .sp
102   .nf
# Line 106 | Line 131 | standard input.
131   To compute values for the same sensor with two different positions:
132   .IP "" .2i
133   rsensor -ab 2 -vf posA.vf mysens.dat -vf posB.vf mysens.dat scene.oct
134 + .PP
135 + To generate a set of rays corresponding to a given sensor and compute
136 + the resulting signal with rtrace:
137 + .IP "" .2i
138 + rsensor -h -vf posC.vf mysens.dat . | rtrace -h scene.oct | total -m
139   .SH ENVIRONMENT
140   RAYPATH         the directories to check for auxiliary files.
141   .SH AUTHOR
142   Greg Ward for Architectural Energy Corporation
143   .SH "SEE ALSO"
144 < oconv(1), rpict(1), rtcontrib(1), rtrace(1)
144 > oconv(1), rpict(1), rcontrib(1), rtrace(1)

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