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Revision 1.146 by greg, Tue Mar 11 02:21:46 2008 UTC vs.
Revision 1.171 by greg, Fri Jun 18 21:22:49 2010 UTC

# Line 1140 | Line 1140 | of recursive routines using sets to avoid overrunning
1140   the stack limit.
1141  
1142   ==============================
1143 < Version 3.6
1143 > Version 3.6 (Released 10/21/04)
1144  
1145   Modified 4-byte RGBE encoding routine to avoid problems
1146   when one or two primary values is negative and the other(s)
# Line 1343 | Line 1343 | Fixed bug in rcalc where it sometimes wasn't parsing t
1343   correctly.
1344  
1345   =====================
1346 < Version 3.7
1346 > Version 3.7 (Released 7/25/05)
1347  
1348   Fixed bug in source occluder cache which caused consistency error
1349   for distant sources and mist materials.  (Thanks to Mark Stock for
# Line 1489 | Line 1489 | line on the input.  This was not intentional, but I de
1489   behavior so I documented it rather than changing it.
1490  
1491   =====================
1492 < Version 3.8
1492 > Version 3.8 (Released 10/17/06)
1493  
1494   Fixed Russian roulette ray termination, which was doing the opposite of
1495   what it should have been doing, resulting in overestimated values below
# Line 1609 | Line 1609 | not being accounted for properly.
1609   Added -h option to pcompos and pcomb to eliminate verbose headers.
1610  
1611   =====================
1612 < Version 3.9
1612 > Version 3.9 (Released 3/30/08)
1613  
1614   Added -spec option to falsecolor to restore original spectral color scale.
1615   Also added "-s auto" option to automatically set the maximum value.
# Line 1644 | Line 1644 | The only caveat is that -n setting > 1 requires -PP ra
1644  
1645   Added -c option to rtcontrib to facilitate cumulative calculations.
1646  
1647 Added ability to incorporate LBNL Window 6 bidirectional scattering
1648 distribution function (BSDF) data in mkillum.
1649
1647   ****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
1648   Fixed long-standing bug in source.cal, which caused it to produce
1649   reversed anisotropic photometric distributions due to the
# Line 1663 | Line 1660 | Corporation in Boulder, CO, and directed by Zack Roger
1660  
1661   Added "planisphere" (stereographic) fisheye view type for traditional
1662   daylighting analysis.  Feature requested & explained by Axel Jacobs.
1663 +
1664 + Modified -c option to rtcontrib so it can take a number of input
1665 + rays to average over, rather than only produce a single accumulated
1666 + record (which can now be done with -c 0).
1667 +
1668 + =====================
1669 + Version 4.0 (Released 3/12/10)
1670 +
1671 + Added -n option to rvu to provide parallel rendering.
1672 +
1673 + ****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
1674 + Changed ".pic" extension to ".hdr" in all sources and documentation
1675 + to improve interoperability with other software, since this has become
1676 + the de facto extension for Radiance RGBE and XYZE pictures.  Since file
1677 + extensions were never more than a convention in Radiance, this does not
1678 + affect operation, but may require the update of scripts, etc. written
1679 + by others that assume the ".pic" suffix for Radiance output.
1680 +
1681 + Added -N option to objview to support multiprocessing.
1682 +
1683 + Improved sampling of circular sources (source, sphere, ring types) with
1684 + quite a bit of help from David Geisler-Moroder.
1685 +
1686 + Added "rpict" and "rvu" variables to rad, and made these as well as
1687 + the "oconv", "mkillum" and "pfilt" variables accept an alternate
1688 + command path in each case.  Change suggested by Lars Grobe based
1689 + on similar Radzilla (radz) facility by Carsten Bauer.
1690 +
1691 + Fixed rad -v N specification to use actual view name if one.
1692 +
1693 + Fixed error in mkillum calculation where it neglected indirect
1694 + source contributions from BTDF illum's.
1695 +
1696 + Added GMT and LATLONG header lines for Greenwich Mean Time and
1697 + degrees North Latitude / East Longitude.
1698 +
1699 + Added gendaylit to distribution (finally).
1700 +
1701 + Added ability in vwright(1) to get view from command line arguments.
1702 +
1703 + Created genklemsamp(1) utility to generate samples suitable for
1704 + BSDF-based annual calculations.  This is the first Perl script to
1705 + be added to Radiance.  Hopefully, others will follow.
1706 +
1707 + Added klems_int.cal file to compute Klems bins for windows.
1708 +
1709 + Created genskyvec  utility to sample a particular sky and
1710 + evaluate average radiance over the standard Tregenza sky patches.
1711 +
1712 + Created dctimestep program to compute a set of sensor values or
1713 + a combined image for a particular time using the daylight
1714 + coefficient method.
1715 +
1716 + Created src/rt/rayfifo.c for first-in/first-out handling of
1717 + multiprocessing by raypcalls.c.
1718 +
1719 + Added -n option to rtrace for executing on multiple cores
1720 + using new rayfifo calls.
1721 +
1722 + =====================
1723 + Version 4.1
1724 +
1725 + Changed ranimate behavior so remote login under a different user
1726 + doesn't necessarily require the presence of the originating user's
1727 + home directory.
1728 +
1729 + Changed standard transmission function normalization back to what
1730 + it was in version 3.5, following recommendation of David Geisler-Moroder,
1731 + who pointed out that the revised BTDF increased too much at grazing.
1732 +
1733 + Changed rad behavior with -N >1 on single view to call rpiece.
1734 +
1735 + Updated SCons build system for MINGW compilation, thanks to Christian
1736 + Kohler.
1737 +
1738 + Added -u option to rlam for unbuffered output.

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