--- ray/doc/man/man1/vwrays.1 2003/03/11 19:20:21 1.1 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/vwrays.1 2007/09/04 17:36:41 1.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" RCSid "$Id" +.\" RCSid "$Id: vwrays.1,v 1.5 2007/09/04 17:36:41 greg Exp $" .TH VWRAYS 1 1/15/99 RADIANCE .SH NAME vwrays - compute rays for a given picture or view @@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ If a given pixel has no corresponding ray (because it legal view boundaries), then six zero values are sent instead. .PP The -.I -i +.I \-i option may be used to specify desired pixel positions on the standard input rather than generating all the pixels for a given view. .PP The -.I -f +.I \-f option may be used to set the record format to something other than the default ASCII. Using raw float or double records for example can reduce the time @@ -41,30 +41,34 @@ manual page, including input from a view file with the .I \-vf option. Additionally, the target X and Y dimensions may be specified with -.I -x +.I \-x and -.I -y +.I \-y options, and the pixel aspect ratio may be given with -.I -p. +.I \-pa. The default dimensions are 512x512, with a pixel aspect ratio of 1.0. Just as in .I rpict, the X or the Y dimension will be reduced if necessary to best match the specified pixel aspect ratio, unless this ratio is set to zero. +The +.I \-pj +option may be used to jitter samples. +The default value of 0 turns off ray jittering. .PP If the -.I -d +.I \-d option is given, then .I vwrays just prints the computed image dimensions, which are based on the view aspect and the pixel aspect ratio just described. The -.I -ld +.I \-ld switch will also be printed, with -.I -ld+ +.I \-ld+ if the view file has an aft clipping plane, and -.I -ld- +.I \-ld- otherwise. This is useful for passing options to the .I rtrace @@ -78,7 +82,7 @@ equal the maximum distance for each pixel, which will correctly by .I rtrace with the -.I -ld+ +.I \-ld+ option. Note that this option should not be given unless there is an aft clipping plane, since the ray direction vectors will be normalized @@ -105,15 +109,15 @@ vwrays scene_v2.pic scene_v2.zbf > scene_v2.pts .PP To determine what the dimensions of a given view would be: .IP "" .2i -vwrays -d -vf myview.vf -x 2048 -y 2048 +vwrays \-d \-vf myview.vf \-x 2048 \-y 2048 .PP To generate a RADIANCE picture using .I rtrace instead of .I rpict: .IP "" .2i -vwrays -ff -vf view1.vf -x 1024 -y 1024 | -rtrace `vwrays -d -vf view1.vf -x 1024 -y 1024` -ffc scene.oct > view1.pic +vwrays \-ff \-vf view1.vf \-x 1024 \-y 1024 | +rtrace `vwrays \-d \-vf view1.vf \-x 1024 \-y 1024` \-ffc scene.oct > view1.pic .SH AUTHOR Greg Ward Larson .SH ACKNOWLEDGMENT @@ -125,4 +129,4 @@ can reproduce any pixel ordering (i.e., any image orie a rendered picture, it will only produce standard scanline-ordered rays when given a set of view parameters. .SH "SEE ALSO" -rcalc(1), rpict(1), rtrace(1) +rcalc(1), rpict(1), rtcontrib(1), rtrace(1)