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Revision 1.412 by greg, Sun Apr 10 03:46:27 2022 UTC vs.
Revision 1.465 by greg, Fri Oct 4 18:49:06 2024 UTC

# Line 2540 | Line 2540 | Slight change to vwrays -d option to not spit out "-ld
2540   produce "-ld+" without requiring input picture as argument.
2541  
2542   Added automatic overture calculation to rtpict with -n > 1 if
2543 < ambient cache is on and file is named.  Random image sampling
2544 < avoids some of the issues with redundant calculations but not all.
2543 > ambient cache is on and file is named.  If straight image output
2544 > is requested, we randomize all samples and avoid cache collisions.
2545 >
2546 > Added cnt -s option to shuffle output.
2547 >
2548 > Fixed issue with divide-by-zero errors in the ambient super-sampling
2549 > routine discovered by Jon Sargent of Solemma.  This affected regions
2550 > that had zero radiance, such as black backgrounds or unlit areas
2551 > with -av 0 0 0, when super-sampling was effectively disabled, causing
2552 > some loss in accuracy of the results.
2553 >
2554 > Updated Klems Half- and Quarter-bases to match angles currently used
2555 > in WINDOW.
2556 >
2557 > Eliminated most aiming failures for triangular light sources, at the
2558 > expense of conservative sampling near the centroid.  Thanks to
2559 > David Geisler-Moroder for his help on this.
2560 >
2561 > Increased maximum set size to 8191 to avoid set overflow errors.
2562 >
2563 > Added source obstruction test to statistics being kept on which
2564 > sources were visible in adaptive shadow testing code.  Previous
2565 > behavior was likely over-estimating source contributions.
2566 >
2567 > Added diffuse components into maximum directional hemispherical
2568 > reported by checkBSDF, so comparing to 100% is easier for each
2569 > component.
2570 >
2571 > Fixed incorrect calculations in iso2klems script, thanks to
2572 > help from Jacob Jonnson.
2573 >
2574 > Updated official copyright and license according to new wording
2575 > provided by Jean Haemmerle at the LBNL Intellectual Property Office.
2576 > Both were copied verbatim from e-mail I received from Taoning Wang
2577 > on 8/20/2022.
2578 >
2579 > Added -features option to rpict, rtrace, and rcontrib to check
2580 > which features are present or look for specific feature support.
2581 > This addition was suggested by Peter Apian-Bennewitz as an easier
2582 > way to determine which version of Radiance is installed and what
2583 > it supports, and is timely as we begin our refactoring of the
2584 > rendering code.  There are no current plans to add this to rvu.
2585 >
2586 > Added falsecolor -odim, -orct, and -c0 options to overlay grid of
2587 > values on image.  This was requested by Rob Shakespeare.
2588 >
2589 > Added -i* and -o* options in rhcopy for reading rays from the
2590 > standard input and writing rays from holodeck to standard output.
2591 > This will hopefully be useful in combining rholo with rcontrib.
2592 >
2593 > Added further checking for coincident (overlapping) flat surfaces,
2594 > preferring front sides to back sides in the ray intersection
2595 > calculation.  This only applies to rings and faces, as the other
2596 > surface types would have required additional calculations to
2597 > make them work.  Material transparency is still the primary
2598 > consideration, now followed by ray hit side, followed by
2599 > modifier definition order in the input.
2600 >
2601 > Increased octree and object limits to allow scenes with billions
2602 > of primitives.
2603 >
2604 > Made reciprocity averaging default to "off" in bsdf2ttree, as it seems
2605 > to create more problems than it solves.
2606 >
2607 > ====================
2608 > Version 6.0
2609 >
2610 > Extensive changes to enable spectral rendering, which defaults to "off"
2611 > to maintain backwards-compatibility with previous versions, with the
2612 > exception of the ambient file format, which is changed.  The MAXCSAMP
2613 > macro, which defaults to 24, sets the maximum number of spectral samples.
2614 > The actual number of samples is set by the "-cs" option, which defaults
2615 > to 3 for rpict, rtrace, and rcontrib.  The latter two programs support
2616 > straight spectral output, but rpict is initially restricted to
2617 > tristimulus output pictures.  New pattern primitives "spectrum",
2618 > "specfile", and "specfunc" have been added as a means to specify
2619 > spectral reflectance, emittance, etc. to materials that still have
2620 > only 3 color channels.  Those RGB channels will still affect the
2621 > spectrum if used.  Unfortunately photon-mapping is currently broken when
2622 > spectral sampling is enabled, but we will fix this as soon as possible.
2623 > Calculation overhead appears to be approximately 10-15% for RGB
2624 > renderings compared to version 5.4a.
2625 >
2626 > Added spectral rendering to rvu as well, and made -cs and -cw
2627 > options standard across the rendering library.  I also brought
2628 > mkillum, ranimove, rsensor, and mksource into the fold.  These
2629 > tools were broken in the initial release.  (Hopefully, they are
2630 > working now, but none have been tested as yet.)
2631 > There was also an indexing bug in the spectral->RGB conversions
2632 > that made reds into blues and vice versa, which has been fixed.
2633 >
2634 > Added i/o for spectral pictures to rmtxop, the first program that can
2635 > ingest them.  (Only rtrace, rcontrib, and rfluxmtx can render them.)
2636 > New symbolic rmtxop -c options, such as RGB, XYZ, S (for scotopic)
2637 > and M (for melanopic) make color conversions simpler.  Alternatively,
2638 > a reference matrix or picture may be given and the color space of
2639 > that file will be used.  The -C option takes either a symbolic
2640 > color space or reference file and is "sticky," so it applies to
2641 > all subsequent input files that do not have their own -c right ahead
2642 > of them.
2643 >
2644 > Added spectral picture support to rcrop and radcompare.
2645 >
2646 > Added new utility, rcomb, which is something like a combination
2647 > of rmtxop and pcomb, it works with all the inputs and
2648 > outputs that rmtxop handles, but allows for general expressions
2649 > like those in pcomb for putting matrices together, working on
2650 > an element at a time.  (No resizing of matrices or accessing
2651 > neighboring elements, as permitted in pcomb.)  It saves memory
2652 > over rmtxop by operating on a row at a time, so can handle
2653 > input and output matrices with any number of rows.  It does
2654 > provide for a single matrix-multiplication operation at the end,
2655 > which only requires memory for that final matrix.
2656 >
2657 > Added support for filtering hyperspectral images to pfilt.
2658 >
2659 > Added support for 1- and 3-component float matrix i/o to
2660 > pcomb to allow for better interoperability.
2661 >
2662 > Added support for -co+ option to rtpict, so it can directly
2663 > produce hyperspectral images.
2664 >
2665 > Added new "specdata" and "specpict" primitives to support
2666 > interpolated spectral data files and hyperspectral images
2667 > as patterns.
2668 >
2669 > Added support for multispectal sampling in rsensor, which will
2670 > put out as many color channels as specified in any -cs option
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.  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.  HSR
2720 > input handling was added in a similar fashion to pcond and pvalue.
2721 >
2722 > Wrote rxpiece tool that will render pictures using tiling and
2723 > can handle different output formats and hyperspectral pictures.
2724 > Only runs on a single machine, however -- now NFS locking on
2725 > shared volumes.  Mainly a demonstration tool for RpictSimulManager
2726 > C++ class, but may have its uses.
2727 >
2728 > Fixed a bug in BSDF sampling of sources pointed out by
2729 > David Geisler-Moroder, which tended to overestimate specular
2730 > contributions for some BSDFs.
2731 >
2732 > Added handling of hyperspectral pictures to pextrem, though
2733 > results are still reported in RGB.
2734 >
2735 > Added conversion of hyperspectral pictures to ra_xyze, although
2736 > it is even slower than rcomb for this process.  It is more
2737 > accurate than most of the other tools, at least.
2738 >
2739 > Added handling of hyperspectral images to normtiff, a little-used
2740 > but handy program for quickly tone-mapping pictures and TIFFs.
2741 >
2742 > Added conversion of hyperspectral pictures to ra_ps using
2743 > approximate color method.
2744 >
2745 > Added hyperspectral picture conversion to ra_tiff, with accurate
2746 > color when targeting 16-bit/comp. or LogLuv output, and approximate
2747 > method for 24-bit RGB.

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