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Revision 1.442 by greg, Thu Jan 4 01:55:42 2024 UTC vs.
Revision 1.457 by greg, Tue Sep 10 20:24:42 2024 UTC

# Line 2671 | Line 2671 | put out as many color channels as specified in any -cs
2671   (default is 3 for RGB).
2672  
2673   Added ability of mgf2rad to convert spectral data at least
2674 < for light, glow, plastic, and metal primitive types.
2674 > for light, glow, plastic, and metal primitive types.  Need
2675 > to use new '-s' option to get new output.
2676 >
2677 > Added handling of spectral images to rcode2bmp script.
2678 >
2679 > Minor change to rcollate to allow explicit byte records to
2680 > be any specified length without checks against header input.
2681 >
2682 > Added new hemisphere type to rfluxmtx, "h=cie" for CIE sky
2683 > scanner positions.  These are 145 patches with identical
2684 > row counts to Tregenza, but starting from a different
2685 > azimuth and reversing row directions at adjacent altitudes.
2686 >
2687 > Added optimization for long argument lists and arrays in
2688 > the calcomp routines used for rendering and in rcalc, etc.
2689 >
2690 > Added error estimate spreading to ambient super-sampling
2691 > algorithm (-as) to improve performance especially in
2692 > scenes with sharp cut-offs.
2693 >
2694 > Added -i option to gendaymtx to match -i option of gendaylit.
2695 > Thanks to Yongqing for initial implementation.
2696 >
2697 > Changed rcrop so negative #rows or #cols counts back from end.
2698 >
2699 > Added rcomb -n option for multi-processing of very large matrices.
2700 >
2701 > Made it so rsplit and rlam can handle any number of input files
2702 > up to active open file descriptor limit.
2703 >
2704 > Taoning Wang added genssky tool for generating spectral sky
2705 > descriptions.
2706 >
2707 > Taoning added gensdaymtx utility based on gendaymtx, and
2708 > added epw2wea -a option to include required information.
2709 >
2710 > Fixed bug introduced in Auguest 2022 (5.4 release) in distant
2711 > light source sampling, which caused aiming failures.  (Thanks
2712 > to Mike DiPompeo of LightStanza for reporting the issue.)
2713 >
2714 > Added rxpict rendering tool based on C++ RpictSimulManager class.
2715 > Multi-processing and spectral output are supported.
2716 >
2717 > Added crude ability to read and convert spectra to RGB in ximage,
2718 > ra_bmp, and ra_rgbe programs.  Also updated fast tone-mapping
2719 > library to handle spectral HSR inputs at the same time.

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