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1   .\" RCSid "$Id$"
2   .TH RTCONTRIB 1 5/25/05 RADIANCE
3   .SH NAME
4 < rtcontrib - compute contributions in a RADIANCE scene
4 > rtcontrib - compute contribution coefficients in a RADIANCE scene
5   .SH SYNOPSIS
6   .B rtcontrib
7   [
# Line 11 | Line 11 | rtcontrib - compute contributions in a RADIANCE scene
11   ][
12   .B "\-f source"
13   ][
14 < .B "\-o fspec"
14 > .B "\-o ospec"
15   ][
16   .B "\-b binv"
17   ]
# Line 51 | Line 51 | systems, such as luminaires, light pipes, and shading
51   .I Rtcontrib
52   calls
53   .I rtrace(1)
54 < to calculate the contributions for each input ray,
55 < and the output tallies are sent to one or more files according to the
54 > with the -oTW option to calculate the daughter ray
55 > contributions for each input ray, and the output tallies
56 > are sent to one or more destinations according to the given
57   .I \-o
58   specification.
59 + If a destination begins with an exclamation mark ('!'), then
60 + a pipe is opened to a command and data is sent to its standard input.
61 + Otherwise, the destination is treated as a file.
62 + (An existing file of the same name is clobbered.)\0
63   If an output specification contains a "%s" format, this will be
64   replaced by the modifier name.
65   The
# Line 98 | Line 103 | The rules and predefined functions available for these
103   described in the
104   .I rcalc(1)
105   man page.
106 + Unlike
107 + .I rcalc,
108 + .I rtcontrib
109 + will search the RADIANCE library directories for each file given in a
110 + .I \-f
111 + option.
112 + (No search takes place if a file name begins with a '.', '/' or '~'
113 + character.)\0
114   .PP
115   If no
116   .I \-o
117   specification is given, results are written on the standard output in order
118   of modifier (as given on the command line) then bin number.
119 < Concatenated data is also sent to a lone output file (i.e., an initial
119 > Concatenated data is also sent to a single destination (i.e., an initial
120   .I \-o
121   specification without formatting strings).
122   If a "%s" format appears but no "%d" in the
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193   .IP "" .2i
194   rtcontrib -b tbin -o sky.dat -m skyglow -b 0 -o ground.dat -m groundglow
195   @render.opt -f tregenza.cal scene.oct < test.dat
196 + .SH ENVIRONMENT
197 + RAYPATH         path to search for -f files
198   .SH AUTHOR
199   Greg Ward
200   .SH "SEE ALSO"

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