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+using new rayfifo calls.
+=====================
-<
+Version 4.1
->
+Version 4.1 (Released 11/04/2011)
+Changed ranimate behavior so remote login under a different user
+doesn't necessarily require the presence of the originating user's
+home directory.
-+
-+
+Changed standard transmission function normalization back to what
-+
+it was in version 3.5, following recommendation of David Geisler-Moroder,
-+
+who pointed out that the revised BTDF increased too much at grazing.
-+
-+
+Changed rad behavior with -N >1 on single view to call rpiece.
-+
-+
+Updated SCons build system for MINGW compilation, thanks to Christian
-+
+Kohler.
-+
-+
+Added -u option to rlam for unbuffered output.
-+
-+
+Modified dctimestep to accept sky vector and daylight coefficient matrix
-+
+or list of images to sum together, as suggested by Andy McNeil.
-+
-+
+Created genBSDF script to generate BSDF in Windows XML format.
-+
-+
+Modified mkillum to accept detailed geometry from BSDF XML files.
-+
-+
+Altered obj2rad to ignore zero normals (thanks to Jack de Valpine for
-+
+suggestions and help).
-+
-+
+Fixed bug in genklemsamp that caused non-uniform sampling over surfaces.
-+
-+
+Fixed bugs in rhoptimize and rhcopy for 64-bit compilation.
-+
-+
+Made a change to avoid problem using gcc --fast-math compile option.
-+
-+
+****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
-+
+Changed behavior of rtrace and rtcontrib so that every scanline is
-+
+not flushed when both -x and -y are set.  This avoids flush delays
-+
+in rtcontrib for large numbers of output files and delays while
-+
+rendering images using rtrace with the -n option.
-+
-+
+Added ability for rsensor to output ray origins and directions
-+
+rather than actually loading octree and computing sensor value.
-+
-+
+Fixed old bug in obj2rad where it would stop processing and
-+
+report a syntax error if the "void" type is used in the map file.
-+
-+
+Updated reflection model according to EGSR 2010 paper by David
-+
+Geisler-Moroder and Arne Duer.
-+
-+
+Replaced C-shell version of falsecolor with Perl script written
-+
+by Axel Jacobs.
-+
-+
+****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
-+
+Changed -sj (specular jitter) option to something called specular
-+
+sampling (-ss), which if set less than 1 has the same behavior as
-+
+the old -sj, but when set greater than 1, spawns multiple ray
-+
+samples from semi-specular surfaces.
-+
-+
+Fixed bug noticed by Randolph Fritz that caused ambient sync errors.
-+
-+
+Fixed bug in findglare for reading picture files under Windows.
-+
-+
+Added options to pvalue to note other color spaces on reverse conversion.
-+
+Thanks to Erich Philips for the feature request.
-+
-+
+Added BSDF data-driven material type with full sampling support.
-+
-+
+Added BRDF calculations to genBSDF.
-+
-+
+Bug fixes in rsensor thanks to help from David Geisler-Moroder.
-+
-+
+Added variable-resolution BSDF support in renderers and genBSDF.
-+
-+
+Created pkgBSDF program to extract BSDF geometry and put it
-+
+together with surface description suitable for inclusion in
-+
+a Radiance scene.
-+
-+
+Muted warning for "no light sources found" when there is at least
-+
+one glow object and interreflections are on (-ab > 0).
-+
-+
+Fixed long-standing bug that caused underestimation of reflection
-+
+when specular component was below -st threshold in non-metals.
-+
-+
+Checked in cross-platform cmake build system created by Bill Hoffman
-+
+of KitWare and sponsored by NREL.  This includes a qt-based
-+
+driver for rvu, which is built in the new subdirectory src/qtrvu.
-+
-+
+=====================
-+
+Version 4.2 (Release date 7/31/2014)
-+
-+
+Axel Jacobs added -cp and -palettes options to falsecolor.
-+
-+
+Fixed bug in matrix output of genBSDF introduced shortly before 4.1 release.
-+
-+
+Made rvu more responsive in multi-processing mode when changing parameters.
-+
+Explicit "new" command not needed to show changes, because it goes back
-+
+to "immediate mode" once something is changed.  Processing will be slow
-+
+but response time quick until next "new" command.
-+
-+
+Fixed major bug in transmitting proxy material sampling.
-+
-+
+Patched cmake build tools (changes by Zack Galbreath).
-+
-+
+Removed requirement for pflip -h to be given input file (can pipe from stdin).
-+
-+
+Added "Number of processes" slider to trad "Action" pane to control rad -N
-+
+option for rvu and batch rendering.
-+
-+
+Added -c option to vwrays to repeat pixels for rtcontrib.
-+
-+
+Reworked rtcontrib program and renamed to rcontrib.  New version runs much
-+
+faster, especially on multiprocessor systems, and doesn't require as much
-+
+memory.  No longer calls rtrace; instead does all the work itself.
-+
-+
+Added -d option to genskyvec to produce direct-only (sun no sky) vector.
-+
-+
+Added Ashikhmin-Shirley anisotropic BRDF model (ashik2) with help
-+
+from Nicolas Boneel.
-+
-+
+Added Ruby rewrite of objview.csh by Rob Guglielmetti.
-+
-+
+Fixed bug in reciprocity for tensor tree BTDF representations.  Thanks
-+
+to Andy McNeil for identifying the problem.
-+
-+
+Added MNAME and ZNAME variables to ranimove for debugging & testing.
-+
-+
+Created pmblur2 command to take motion and depth buffers from ranimove
-+
+to compute a better motion blur.
-+
-+
+****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
-+
+Changed BSDF routines to use updated/corrected XML specification and
-+
+removed depracated BSDF support from mkillum.
-+
-+
+Fixed behavior of i/o flushing in rcontrib with -c > 1 (averaging).  Thanks
-+
+to Lars Grobe for help identifying this problem.
-+
-+
+Fixed bug in depth-of-field blur where view distance was measured from
-+
+fore clipping plane rather than viewpoint.  Thanks to Peter A-B for
-+
+pointing this out.
-+
-+
+Added options to dctimestep to allow multiple time steps (-n)
-+
+and multiple output pictures or sensor files (-o).  Also added -i
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+option to specify float (-if) or double (-id) input for sky matrix.
-+
-+
+Created gendaymtx program to compute annual sky patch matrix based
-+
+on Ian Ashdown's implementation of Perez all-weather sky model.
-+
+Output can be sent directly to dctimestep in ASCII or binary stream.
-+
-+
+Replaced existing gendaylit.c with improved version from Wendelin Sprenger
-+
+and Jan Wienold of ISE.
-+
-+
+Improved accuracy of ambient calculation for large -ad settings.  Thanks
-+
+to Lars Grobe for noticing the problem.
-+
-+
+Added -r option to gendaymtx to rotate the sky the specified number of
-+
+degrees about the zenith as suggested by A. McNeil.
-+
-+
+Axel Jacobs added -pal eco color map that does a blue-red-yellow scale.
-+
-+
+Created bsdf2klems tool to convert from various BSDF representations to
-+
+Klems basis matrix in XML file.
-+
-+
+Fixed problem with inappropriate reciprocity enforcement on tensor
-+
+tree reduction in genBSDF.  (Thanks to A.McNeil for discovering issue.)
-+
-+
+Fixed bug in isotropic tensor tree sampling for impinging rays
-+
+exactly normal to surface.  Thanks to Peter Apian-Bennewitz for
-+
+discovering and pointing out the error.
-+
-+
+Fixed double-counting bug in mirror material with alternate type.
-+
+Thanks to David Geisler-Moroder for spotting the problem and helping
-+
+to fix it.
-+
-+
+Created rcollate program to resize and transpose matrix data for Andy
-+
+McNeil's 5-phase annual simulation method.
-+
-+
+Added epw2wea conversion program by Christoph Reinhart.
-+
-+
+Implemented Perlin's improved noise function with help from Rahul Narain.
-+
+This will change the appearance of renderings using this function.
-+
-+
+Added "origin" command to rvu as requested by John Mardaljevic
-+
+to place view origin at selected point in scene.
-+
-+
+Switch to Perl versions of objview and objpict written by Axel Jacobs.
-+
-+
+Improved rendering speed of scenes with aliases by not entering new
-+
+modifiers into table if they are the same as the previously defined
-+
+modifier for that name.
-+
-+
+Made it so icalc and rcalc search RAYPATH directories for *.cal files
-+
+given on command line.  This simplifies script writing and makes these
-+
+utilities consistent with other tools in Radiance.
-+
-+
+Added triangulation routine to handle convex polygons in obj2mesh.
-+
-+
+****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
-+
+Made backface visibility apply to all material types, including
-+
+transparent and translucent materials (except dielectric and interface).
-+
+This makes the option useful in cases where adjacent trans surfaces
-+
+are placed next to each other by a modeler that only understands
-+
+volumetric objects.
-+
-+
+Changed dctimestep so that output matrices (-n > 1) are preceded by a
-+
+header, and added support for float and double output formats with -o[fd].
-+
-+
+Introduced eplus_adduvf program to compute user view factors for EnergyPlus.
-+
-+
+Changed image-plane sampling in rpict to use Hilbert curve, which gives
-+
+less of a brushed/striped appearance to output pixels with -u- (default).
-+
-+
+Added ltview and ltpict Perl scripts contributed by Axel Jacobs, inspired
-+
+by Rob Guglielmetti.
-+
-+
+Added header variables for NROWS, NCOLS and NCOMP to help standardize
-+
+matrix files.  This functionality has been incorporated into
-+
+rcollate, gendaymtx, and dctimestep.
-+
-+
+Created rmtxop utility to operate on multi-component matrices.  This
-+
+facilitates some daylight matrix calculations, and provides a general
-+
+tool for manipulating matrix data.
-+
-+
+****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
-+
+Introduced new Hessian-based error control in irradiance caching (ambient)
-+
+calculation.  Since the format of the stored ambient values is different,
-+
+the old files will be rejected with an error message and must be removed.
-+
+The programs may be compiled with the -DOLDAMB option if this is a problem.
-+
-+
+Added -p option to rcontrib to set function file parameters on a per-modifier
-+
+basis to simplify bin evaluation.
-+
-+
+Created rfluxmtx program to compute flux transfer matrices from a sender
-+
+surface to one or more receiver surfaces.  (Renamed the file klems_int.cal
-+
+to klems_full.cal in the process.)
-+
-+
+Added "-c" option to getinfo to execute command on data segment.
-+
-+
+================================
-+
+Version 5.0 (Released 9/18/2015)
-+
-+
+Changed rmtxop so it writes out same type as lesser of inputs unless
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+directed otherwise using -f? option.
-+
-+
+Changed order of oconv arguments in rfluxmtx so user can specify input
-+
+octree using -i option at the end instead of (or in addition to) a
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+list of scene files.
-+
-+
+Added support for argument expansion to rfluxmtx and bug fixes.
-+
-+
+Fixed bug in indirect hemisphere sampling for some corner cases.
-+
-+
+Added default specular lobe to BSDF interpolation.
-+
-+
+Set minimum number of shadow checks before direct optimization (4).
-+
-+
+(Above changes included in 4.2.1 patch release.)
-+
-+
+****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
-+
+Made header input and output the default behavior for dctimestep and
-+
+genskyvec.
-+
-+
+****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
-+
+Changed pabopto2bsdf default behavior to add 90-degree rotation
-+
+to bring pgII's definition of "up" in line with Klems axis
-+
+conventions.  Introduced a new header variable "upphi" to
-+
+control this added rotation.  Using "#upphi 90" in each
-+
+BSDF input file gets back the original behavior, where it
-+
+assumes that the up direction is 90-degrees from the X-axis.
-+
+The default value of 0 corresponds to PAB's definition of
-+
+the X-axis as being "up".
-+
-+
+Fixed bug in rsensor related to having many rows (altitude) and
-+
+few columns (azimuth) in sensitivity file.
-+
-+
+Fixed floating point round-off error in new Hessian calculation
-+
+for some sytems (Windows, primarily).
-+
-+
+Fixed bug in tensor tree BSDF code that caused bus error on
-+
+some systems, and may have been source of other errors as well.
-+
-+
+(Above changes included in 4.2.2 patch release.)
-+
-+
+Improved ambient extrapolation to avoid zero values.  Actual
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+threshold set to 5% of recorded value.
-+
-+
+Changed anisotropic Gaussian and Ashikhmin models so that
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+illegal orientation vectors are dealt with more gracefully.
-+
-+
+Created wrapBSDF tool and incorporated into genBSDF along
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+with new rfluxmtx computation.
-+
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+Initial check-in of Roland Schregle's photon map integration.
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+New 5.0a version designation as suggested by Andy McNeil.
-+
-+
+Added left-hand coordinate sytems to rfluxmtx to correct
-+
+problems with coordinate axis orientations pointed out by
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+David Geisler-Moroder.
-+
-+
+Added color output to genBSDF (+C option) and support for
-+
+color rendering of Klems and tensor tree data.
-+
-+
+Fixed another bug in rsensor that caused rays to be generated
-+
+on opposite side of hemisphere even where sensitivity was zero.
-+
-+
+Fixed bug discovered by Jacob Jonsson in Klems BSDF
-+
+interpolator that caused it to over-predict normal
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+transmittance and reflectance.
-+
-+
+Added ability to read input from commands in dctimestep
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+and rmtxop.
-+
-+
+Added photon map support to rad.  Fixed some double-counting
-+
+issues in photon-mapping spotted by David Geisler-Moroder.
-+
-+
+Added photon map support to trad.
-+
-+
+Fixed bug in antimatter source testing when antimatter
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+definition follows potential obstructor in input.
-+
-+
+Fixed issue with missing character type identifier at head
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+of genBSDF XML output.
-+
-+
+Prompted by Roland S., added option to have pcompos -a order
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+rows from top rather than bottom of image.
-+
-+
+Changed dctimestep to accept matrix as well as BTDF input
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+in the VTDs invocation mode.  This permits the output of
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+rmtxop to be used in a pinch when combining multiple BTDF
-+
+layers, although interreflection between layers is not
-+
+accounted for properly as it is in the WINDOW program.
-+
-+
+Added Jan Wienold et al.'s evalglare to distribution.
-+
-+
+Hopeful fix to deadlock issue under Mac OS X 10.10.x (Yosemite).
-+
-+
+Fixed early exit of rcontrib with internal error (sample behind sender)
-+
+discovered by Rob G.
-+
-+
+=================================
-+
+Version 5.1 (Released 8/17/2017)
-+
-+
+Fixed issue with vchars.mta and symbols.mta not being installed in
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+the appropriate metafile library location, with help from Rob G.
-+
-+
+Added ability to give quoted strings to output= directive in rfluxmtx.
-+
-+
+****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
-+
+Added ability to digest color (CIE-XYZ) input in pabopto2bsdf.
-+
+This change alters the .sir (interpolant) format, so these files
-+
+will need to be regenerated.  Use the new "#colorimetry: CIE-XYZ" tag
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+to enable on input.
-+
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+Rewrote bsdf2klems to support tristimulus color and call wrapBSDF.
-+
+Did the same for bsdf2ttree.  Function specifications still gray only.
-+
-+
+Reduced a problem where rvu or rholo would be slow to quit when
-+
+run with many processes on a large model or one with a large
-+
+ambient file (taking lots of memory).  We were waiting for
-+
+processes to quit one-by-one, which takes some time for each
-+
+process as it disentangles its shared memory.  We now
-+
+wait for all the processes together, so they can disentangle
-+
+in parallel.  It can still take up to a minute in some cases,
-+
+but not 10 minutes like it was taking before the fix.
-+
-+
+Enabled ambient cache value corral for all levels, not just final two.
-+
+This may reduce errors in certain pathological scenes.
-+
-+
+Added -in option to rcalc, rlam, and total to limit the number of
-+
+input records in hopes of circumventing Windows EOF issues on binary data.
-+
+Also added -on option to rcalc and total for logical symmetry.
-+
-+
+Increased modifier limit to 10,000 in rcontrib.
-+
-+
+Fixed issues with glrad and added zoom response to mouse wheel input.
-+
-+
+Added missing definition of "ashik2" material type to reference manual.
-+
-+
+Changed genBSDF to calculate device thickness assuming Zmax==0 so
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+pkgBSDF will generate correct proxy geometry.
-+
-+
+Created pabopto2xyz tool to combine different sensor measurements
-+
+into a single CIE-XYZ measurement file for color BSDF interpolation.
-+
-+
+Jan Wienold updated evalglare to version 1.30
-+
-+
+Roland Schregle added out-of-core photon mapping routines, which
-+
+may be compiled using the PMAP_OOC macro.
-+
-+
+Added -a option to getinfo for easy addition of header lines.
-+
-+
+Fixed issue with multiple records on picture output in rcontrib (and rfluxmtx).
-+
+Credit to Sarith Subramaniam for pointing out the problem.
-+
-+
+Made mkillum more tolerant of non-planar polygons in its sampling routines.
-+
-+
+Added "-recover" option to genBSDF to pick up where it left off.
-+
-+
+Fixed genBSDF issue that was created incorrect normalization of
-+
+Klems output.  Thanks to David G-M and Christian Knoflach for
-+
+discovering the error.  Also improved sampling of indirect irradiance
-+
+that showed some slight bias due to poor sample collision avoidance.
-+
-+
+Fixed long-standing issue with -aa 0 neglecting textures in calculating
-+
+surface shading.
-+
-+
+Fixed bug in ranimove introduced during photon map integration.
-+
-+
+Added check for steep sections of BSDF in pabopto2bsdf, creating narrower
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+peakes in those places and mitigating some normalization issues.
-+
-+
+Added view360stereo.cal by Mark Stock to handle 360-degree over/under
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+stereo views.
-+
-+
+Added MAX2SHADE macro to place limit on number of light sources
-+
+to precheck for obstructions.  (Currently set to 200.)  This
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+avoids excessive start-up times for scenes with many light sources.
-+
+Thanks to Axel Jacobs for pointing out the problem.
-+
-+
+Added -v option to obj2mesh to print out mesh statistics.
-+
-+
+Rewrote bsdf2rad from ground up and made it a standard part of build.
-+
-+
+Fixed bug in orientation of Reinhart/Tregenza sample generator in rfluxmtx.
-+
-+
+Added ability to perform shadow-testing through unproxied BSDFs with strong
-+
+through (direct-direct) component.
-+
-+
+Added {+|-}a options to genBSDF and bsdf2ttree for switching off reciprocity
-+
+averaging.
-+
-+
+Added bias to see through BTDFs with a strong "through" component
-+
+rather than scattering view rays.  This is in lieu of peak extraction,
-+
+which looked to be too difficult from an implementation standpoint.
-+
-+
+Added bsdfview tool analogous to objview but for BSDF files (XML and SIR),
-+
+which calls bsdf2rad then rad with a few useful default views.
-+
-+
+=========================
-+
+Version 5.2 (Release October 8, 2018)
-+
-+
+Created psketch program to apply non-photorealistic rendering to selected
-+
+objects, identified by modifier name(s).
-+
-+
+Added '*' and '/' operations to rmtxop for element-wise multiplication and
-+
+division of same-sized matrices.
-+
-+
+Changed falsecolor so "-s" option is adjusted to match legend if one.
-+
-+
+Falsecolor legend changes and improvements by David G-M and Stephen W.
-+
-+
+Fixed bug in peak extraction code that generated
-+
+"Bad call to SDqueryTreProjSA" error, reported by Lars Grobe.
-+
-+
+Increased maximum luminance to 10^7 in pcond to fix issue noticed
-+
+by Axel Jacobs where veiling glare not added for the sun under
-+
+some conditions.
-+
-+
+Increased maximum number of open files in rcontrib to the system upper
-+
+limit of 2048 rather than the default 512 under Windows.
-+
-+
+Added top-level resources directory with files from Rob Guglielmetti.
-+
-+
+Improved accuracy for peaky BSDFs and small light sources.
-+
-+
+Fixed issue with pmapdump noted by Axel Jacobs.
-+
-+
+Improved accuracy of bsdf2ttree when converting scattering interpolation
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+representatons with strong peaks.
-+
-+
+Tweaked peak-extraction code to work more reliably.
-+
-+
+Georg Mischler updated SCons build system.
-+
-+
+Rob Guglielmetti and Alex Swindler updated CMake build system.
-+
-+
+Modified pcomb so the first view seen in the inputs is written into header.
-+
-+
+Wrote rtpict script to run rtrace in parallel mode and simulate rpict with
-+
+-n option.
-+
-+
+Added ability to move forwards/backwards specified distance in rvu "origin"
-+
+command.  Feature requested by John Mardaljevic, who essentially owns this
-+
+command, now.
-+
-+
+Reduced bias in ambient super-sampling method.
-+
-+
+Fixed bugs associated with zero transmission in chromatic tensor trees.
-+
+Thanks to Lars Grobe for pointing out issues.
-+
-+
+Added RAYPATH searching for -f options to genrev, gensurf, genworm,
-+
+bsdf2klems, bsdf2ttree, and pcomb.  This makes behavior consistent
-+
+with rcalc, calc, and rendering tools.
-+
-+
+Worked with Randolph Fritz to fix some issues with ies2rad and newer
-+
+IESNA63 standards.
-+
-+
+Resurrected original bsdf2rad test program, renaming it bsdf2rado. Still an
-+
+optional build in src/cv/.
-+
-+
+Fixed bug in rcontrib with virtual sources, where pretest was adding
-+
+to modifier accumulation buffers.  Reported by Mostapha.
-+
-+
+Added an "aBSDF" material type that explicitly checks for peak extraction.
-+
+Its arguments are the same as the original "BSDF" type, but without the
-+
+thickness parameter, as proxy geometry is not supported by this new type.
-+
+The old "BSDF" type no longer does peak extraction under any circumstances,
-+
+since this behavior is superfluous for proxied geometry.
-+
-+
+Added -r option to bsdf2rad (and bsdfview) to fix BSDF min and max range
-+
+for comparing BSDFs.
-+
-+
+Fixed issue with pfilt -m option and uneven image size changes pointed
-+
+out by Rob Shakespeare.
-+
-+
+Updates to evalglare and gendaylit from Jan Wienold, including new
-+
+colored sky option.
-+
-+
+=========================
-+
+Version 5.3 (Released September 1, 2020)
-+
-+
+Created radcompare program to compare Radiance tool output to reference outputs
-+
+during unit-testing.
-+
-+
+Fixed issue reading very large files (> 2 GBytes) in rcollate.
-+
-+
+Made picking function in rvu ignore transparent and void surfaces.
-+
-+
+Added -orRxX options to rtrace to enable output of mirrored and unmirrored
-+
+contributions and distances to enable new types of reprojections.  This also
-+
+cleaned up and unified handling of effective ray lengths throughout code.
-+
-+
+Bug fixes from Jan Wienold for evalglare.
-+
-+
+Changed indexed (numbered) output from dctimestep to start from 0 rather
-+
+than 1, to make it more consistent with expected input naming.
-+
-+
+Increased default sampling in bsdf2klems (-n option) to 1024.
-+
-+
+Fixed an issue noticed by David G-M that was causing genBSDF to bias
-+
+isotropic tensor tree samples resulting in subsequent failure of
-+
+peak extraction with "aBSDF" type.
-+
-+
+Introduced max() and min() functions to .cal library.
-+
-+
+Added random incident patch sampling to bsdf2klems to improve accuracy
-+
+with scattering interpolation representation input (e.g., from
-+
+pabopto2bsdf).  The other input types already sampled incident patch area.
-+
-+
+Added gendaymtx -A option to compute average sky over all the input
-+
+time steps.
-+
-+
+Added ability to output color image from rtrace with any of -ovrx options.
-+
+Also fixed inconsistency of -oN output when ray casting versus full trace.
-+
+Before, it would flip normal to front side unless ray casting.  Now, -oN
-+
+always reports the unflipped normal.
-+
-+
+Changed rlam behavior so -iaN reads N lines from a stream rather than N
-+
+characters.  This seems more useful, since -ibN is somewhat redundant with
-+
+the old behavior.
-+
-+
+Created rsplit program as compliment to rlam and to handle more complex
-+
+rtrace output into separate files or streams.
-+
-+
+Improved getinfo so that it can also hop over resolution string with -c
-+
+and header elide mode.  Use +d to include resolution string in output,
-+
+and -d to elide with - and -c options.
-+
-+
+Made pvalue -u option mean "uncompressed" with -r.  Also, allow skipping
-+
+bytes on standard input.
-+
-+
+Created rcode_depth tool to convert to and from a 16-bit/pixel portable
-+
+depth image encoding that uses a mix of linear and reciprocal distance
-+
+with explicit representations of 0 and infinity.  Code for loading these
-+
+depth maps is in src/common/depthcodec.{h,c}.
-+
-+
+Created rcode_norm tool to convert to and from 32-bit/pixel portable
-+
+surface normal representation, matching the one in src/common/dircode.c.
-+
+Code for loading normal maps is in src/common/normcodec.{h,c}.
-+
-+
+Created rcode_ident tool to create indexed identifier files.
-+
+Code for loading these files is in src/common/idmap.{h,c}.
-+
-+
+Added -o* option to rtpict to produce layered images that handle most
-+
+output types from rtrace (colors, surface normals, distances, IDs).
-+
-+
+Created rcode2bmp script to create images from new rcode_* output maps.
-+
-+
+Improved efficiency of rmtxop in cases where matrix multiplication is
-+
+faster evaluated right-to-left, as when the final component is a
-+
+column vector.  Also added ability to apply trailing unary operators
-+
+(-t, and -s or -c) to resulting matrix.
-+
-+
+Added new depth, normal, and ID file types to radcompare.
-+
-+
+Added BigEndian= header line for automatic byte-swapping in rmtxop
-+
+and radcompare.
-+
-+
+Added new "turbo" palette to falsecolor (thanks to Taoning).
-+
-+
+Nathaniel Jones created the "dcglare" program for annual glare
-+
+simulations when the sun and sky are visible through the window.
-+
+Tutorial is posted at
-+
+"https://github.com/nljones/Accelerad/wiki/The-Imageless-Method-for-Spatial-and-Annual-Glare-Analysis".
-+
-+
+Added support for loading RGBE images into matrices in dctimestep.
-+
-+
+Added -y option to gensky and gendaylit to support more accurate Michalsky
-+
+solar position calculation.
-+
-+
+Changed rsplit, so specifying a space as the separator parses words
-+
+between whitespace.
-+
-+
+Added ability of vwrays, pinterp, and pmblur2 to read encoded depth files.
-+
-+
+Added -o RxCxR1xC1 facility to perform blocking in rcollate.
-+
-+
+Made it so number of segments in genworm, genrev, and gensurf can be
-+
+given as expressions of previously defined variables, etc.
-+
-+
+Added -D and -n option to gendaymtx to output sun description and skip
-+
+matrix output on request.  A -M option was also added to output solar
-+
+modifiers for rcontrib.  Support also added for leap days in WEA input.
-+
+Enhancements sponsored by Ladybug Tools.
-+
-+
+Updated eplus_uvf to work with IDF version 9.x, checking version number.
-+
-+
+Fix to glarendx issues with dgi calculation.
-+
-+
+Made it so rmtxop and dctimestep undo any exposure applied to Radiance
-+
+pictures they may load.
-+
-+
+Added robjutil utility to manipulate Wavefront .OBJ files.
-+
-+
+Fixed a crash related to rtrace -om or -oM with mesh instances containing
-+
+materials.
-+
-+
+Improved rtrace flushing function to handle any value for -x without
-+
+deadlock on controlling process.
-+
-+
+Eliminated unnecessary start-up procedures for rtrace when only ray-casting
-+
+is needed (i.e., no tracing or value output).
-+
-+
+Improved isotropic sampling method in bsdf2ttree using "zipper" approach
-+
+applied in genBSDF.
-+
-+
+Added limit to memory used by high-resolution tensor tree BSDFs for
-+
+cumulative cache during MC sampling (rendering).  Limit set to 250MBytes
-+
+per BSDF for standard architectures.
-+
-+
+Added -n and -s options to bsdf2ttree to provide some user control
-+
+over super-sampling.
-+
-+
+Improved surface normal codec used by ambient file to store orthonormal
-+
+directions exactly.
-+
-+
+Improved peak extraction method, which was undervaluing transmission
-+
+in many cases.
-+
-+
+New version of evalglare from Jan Wienold.
-+
-+
+Added -u option to gendaymtx to elide data columns (time steps) when
-+
+the sun is not visible above the horizon.
-+
-+
+=========================
-+
+Version 5.4
-+
-+
+Added rcollate -c option to force operation to continue even if it
-+
+seems unnecessary.  Made tool more robust.
-+
-+
+Added -t option to rcontrib (and rfluxmtx) to report progress after the
-+
+given number of seconds.
-+
-+
+Added "test" target to makeall to run unit tests.
-+
-+
+Modified bsdf2ttree to allow different parameters per input SIR file.
-+
-+
+Fixed issues with very large matrix files (> 2GB) in dctimestep, rmtxop,
-+
+and rcollate.
-+
-+
+Added -rf and -rb options to rmtxop to load front or back reflectance
-+
+matrix data from XML file rather than transmission.  (Lars Grobe suggested.)
-+
-+
+Improved behavior for coincident surfaces with different materials.
-+
+Rather than returning one surface or the other based on floating-point
-+
+vagaries, opaque materials are now preferred over transparent ones.
-+
+If the materials are both transparent or both opaque, then whichever
-+
+surface appeared later in the scene description will be selected.
-+
+This came of a request for consistent behavior with legal CAD output
-+
+from Peter Apian-Bennewitz.
-+
-+
+Added explicit tests for on-edge intersections with polygons.  This should
-+
+eliminate stray rays and tiny light leaks that often appear even in
-+
+well-constructed geometry.
-+
-+
+Added "-s up" option to pabopto2bsdf to allow for 180 degree symmetry,
-+
+meaning that data repeats after 180 degree rotation (as distinguished
-+
+from "-s bilateral" whose data is mirrored about a vertical plane).
-+
+Thanks to Helen Rose Wilson for the suggestion and informing me that
-+
+such a thing exists.
-+
-+
+Removed upper limit on number of modifiers in rcontrib.
-+
-+
+Put cap on maximum ambient gradient to avoid over-extrapolation of
-+
+poorly computed irradiance cache values.
-+
-+
+Added robjutil +T option to triangulate all faces in .OBJ description.
-+
-+
+Altered BSDF library to have both front and back diffuse transmittance
-+
+values, which can be different.  This was necessary to avoid issues
-+
+caused by measurement and modeling discrepancies.
-+
-+
+Added pabopto2bsdf -g option to cull near-grazing scattering to avoid
-+
+issues with noise and negative values.
-+
-+
+Increased default dynamic range from 32 to 100 in pcond and normtiff.
-+
-+
+Added -o and -n options to genbox to create .OBJ output and segment
-+
+edges and corners for transparent materials.  Also added -s option
-+
+to control smoothing for .OBJ and Radiance with segmented rounding.
-+
-+
+Made it so robjutil with the +r option for Radiance output now
-+
+produces normal smoothing unless normals are removed with -n.
-+
-+
+Added exposure preservation to pcompos when possible (i.e., when
-+
+there is only one input or inputs agree on exposure).
-+
-+
+Added -DSHARP_RGB compile-time option to use sharp RGB color space
-+
+rather than historic default.  This can make for more accurate color
-+
+calculations, but requires that materials be recalibrated.  The
-+
+PRIMARIES= line is also produced on output from rpict or rvu with
-+
+the correct set of primaries based on how the system was compiled.
-+
-+
+Added automatic flushing to the output of total, except when the -r
-+
+(running subtotals) option is used.
-+
-+
+Improved behavior of little-used -aw option, so that it avoids sea-level
-+
+rise caused by adding its own estimate back into the ambient level remainder.
-+
+It ended up being simple enough to derate the final average by the factor
-+
+corresponding to average surface absorpition, thus removing the average
-+
+from the final bounce estimate.
-+
-+
+Introduced ies2rad upgrades by Randolph Fritz.  Randolph says it
-+
+fixes the following problems:
-+
-+
+. Generates correct Radiance geometry for spheres in 1995, 2002,
-+
+        and 2019 IES files.
-+
-+
+. Generates correct Radiance geometry for vertical cylinders that
-+
+        are taller than they are wide.
-+
-+
+. Ignores the file source ("File Generation Type") field in the
-+
+version of the file, which would otherwise be incorrectly used
-+
+        as an output multiplier.
-+
-+
+    It also offers the following enhancements:
-+
-+
+. Shape information is included in the .rad file comments.
-+
-+
+. 1995, 2002, and 2019-version luminous opening geometry is
-+
+        accounted for.
-+
-+
+. The 2002 and 2019 IES file versions are recognized and
-+
+        processed appropriately.
-+
-+
+. I have made an attempt to do something intelligent with less
-+
+        common "luminous opening" shapes in the 1995, 2002, and 2019 versions
-+
+        of the standard, though I have not implemented any support for new
-+
+        geometry; approximations are substituted and warning messages issued.
-+
+        Unfortunately, this code is not tested, since I don't have any IES
-+
+        files that use these shapes.
-+
-+
+Added support for depth-of-field blurring in vwrays using -pd option.
-+
+Also, made -c count work with vwrays -i, producing multiple samples
-+
+per indicated pixel position.  At the same time, support for the -pd
-+
+option was added to rtpict, which calls on vwrays for its samples.
-+
-+
+Fixed issue with BSDFs that didn't obey reciprocity, where direct
-+
+sampling wasn't following exactly with indirect sampling.  This was
-+
+discovered and reported by Jon Sargent.
-+
-+
+Created checkBSDF tool to test XML BSDF reciprocity and perform similar
-+
+sanity checks.
-+
-+
+Added -O option to pvalue and pextrem to report watts/sr/m^2 even if
-+
+picture is XYZE.
-+
-+
+Made subtle changes to header i/o routines to preserve alignment in
-+
+binary file formats to enable memory-mapping.  Implemented memory-mapped
-+
+matrix loading in rmtxop for binary double files.
-+
-+
+Removed ambient value sorting, which was written when ambient caches
-+
+could overwhelm available memory.  This is rarely the case these days,
-+
+and the added code complexity and updating of cache values with LRU
-+
+counts dirties pages that would otherwise remain clean, so it was
-+
+often a loss even when VM was an issue.
-+
-+
+Added iso2klems script to compute a Klems BSDF based on specular
-+
+and diffuse measurements as a function of incident angle.
-+
-+
+Fixed issue with over-counting diffuse component during aBSDF
-+
+peak extraction.
-+
-+
+Added dctimestep -x and -y options to specify image dimensions
-+
+for multiple outputs corresponding to result vectors.
-+
-+
+Added -P option to rcalc to pass formatted input when cond is <= 0.
-+
-+
+Created rcrop utility for cropping matrices and pictures more
-+
+conveniently, correcting view information.  Expect it to be handy
-+
+for extracting rows and columns from matrices, mostly.
-+
-+
+Changed pcomb so -o option elides original exposure values
-+
+from indented source headers.
-+
-+
+Added getinfo -r option, which is similar to -a except it will
-+
+replace indicated lines with new ones.
-+
-+
+Slight change to vwrays -d option to not spit out "-ld-", and to
-+
+produce "-ld+" without requiring input picture as argument.
-+
-+
+Added automatic overture calculation to rtpict with -n > 1 if
-+
+ambient cache is on and file is named.  If straight image output
-+
+is requested, we randomize all samples and avoid cache collisions.
-+
-+
+Added cnt -s option to shuffle output.
-+
-+
+Fixed issue with divide-by-zero errors in the ambient super-sampling
-+
+routine discovered by Jon Sargent of Solemma.  This affected regions
-+
+that had zero radiance, such as black backgrounds or unlit areas
-+
+with -av 0 0 0, when super-sampling was effectively disabled, causing
-+
+some loss in accuracy of the results.
-+
-+
+Updated Klems Half- and Quarter-bases to match angles currently used
-+
+in WINDOW.
-+
-+
+Eliminated most aiming failures for triangular light sources, at the
-+
+expense of conservative sampling near the centroid.  Thanks to
-+
+David Geisler-Moroder for his help on this.
-+
-+
+Increased maximum set size to 8191 to avoid set overflow errors.
-+
-+
+Added source obstruction test to statistics being kept on which
-+
+sources were visible in adaptive shadow testing code.  Previous
-+
+behavior was likely over-estimating source contributions.
-+
-+
+Added diffuse components into maximum directional hemispherical
-+
+reported by checkBSDF, so comparing to 100% is easier for each
-+
+component.
-+
-+
+Fixed incorrect calculations in iso2klems script, thanks to
-+
+help from Jacob Jonnson.
-+
-+
+Updated official copyright and license according to new wording
-+
+provided by Jean Haemmerle at the LBNL Intellectual Property Office.
-+
+Both were copied verbatim from e-mail I received from Taoning Wang
-+
+on 8/20/2022.
-+
-+
+Added -features option to rpict, rtrace, and rcontrib to check
-+
+which features are present or look for specific feature support.
-+
+This addition was suggested by Peter Apian-Bennewitz as an easier
-+
+way to determine which version of Radiance is installed and what
-+
+it supports, and is timely as we begin our refactoring of the
-+
+rendering code.  There are no current plans to add this to rvu.
-+
-+
+Added falsecolor -odim, -orct, and -c0 options to overlay grid of
-+
+values on image.  This was requested by Rob Shakespeare.
-+
-+
+Added -i* and -o* options in rhcopy for reading rays from the
-+
+standard input and writing rays from holodeck to standard output.
-+
+This will hopefully be useful in combining rholo with rcontrib.
-+
-+
+Added further checking for coincident (overlapping) flat surfaces,
-+
+preferring front sides to back sides in the ray intersection
-+
+calculation.  This only applies to rings and faces, as the other
-+
+surface types would have required additional calculations to
-+
+make them work.  Material transparency is still the primary
-+
+consideration, now followed by ray hit side, followed by
-+
+modifier definition order in the input.
-+
-+
+Increased octree and object limits to allow scenes with billions
-+
+of primitives.
-+
-+
+Made reciprocity averaging default to "off" in bsdf2ttree, as it seems
-+
+to create more problems than it solves.
-+
-+
+====================
-+
+Version 6.0
-+
-+
+Extensive changes to enable spectral rendering, which defaults to "off"
-+
+to maintain backwards-compatibility with previous versions, with the
-+
+exception of the ambient file format, which is changed.  The MAXCSAMP
-+
+macro, which defaults to 24, sets the maximum number of spectral samples.
-+
+The actual number of samples is set by the "-cs" option, which defaults
-+
+to 3 for rpict, rtrace, and rcontrib.  The latter two programs support
-+
+straight spectral output, but rpict is initially restricted to
-+
+tristimulus output pictures.  New pattern primitives "spectrum",
-+
+"specfile", and "specfunc" have been added as a means to specify
-+
+spectral reflectance, emittance, etc. to materials that still have
-+
+only 3 color channels.  Those RGB channels will still affect the
-+
+spectrum if used.  Unfortunately photon-mapping is currently broken when
-+
+spectral sampling is enabled, but we will fix this as soon as possible.
-+
+Calculation overhead appears to be approximately 10-15% for RGB
-+
+renderings compared to version 5.4a.
-+
-+
+Added spectral rendering to rvu as well, and made -cs and -cw
-+
+options standard across the rendering library.  I also brought
-+
+mkillum, ranimove, rsensor, and mksource into the fold.  These
-+
+tools were broken in the initial release.  (Hopefully, they are
-+
+working now, but none have been tested as yet.)
-+
+There was also an indexing bug in the spectral->RGB conversions
-+
+that made reds into blues and vice versa, which has been fixed.
-+
-+
+Added i/o for spectral pictures to rmtxop, the first program that can
-+
+ingest them.  (Only rtrace, rcontrib, and rfluxmtx can render them.)
-+
+New symbolic rmtxop -c options, such as RGB, XYZ, S (for scotopic)
-+
+and M (for melanopic) make color conversions simpler.  Alternatively,
-+
+a reference matrix or picture may be given and the color space of
-+
+that file will be used.  The -C option takes either a symbolic
-+
+color space or reference file and is "sticky," so it applies to
-+
+all subsequent input files that do not have their own -c right ahead
-+
+of them.
-+
-+
+Added spectral picture support to rcrop and radcompare.
-+
-+
+Added new utility, rmtxcomb, which is hard to type and hard to
-+
+pronounce, and probably equally difficult to use.  Sort of a
-+
+combination of rmtxop and pcomb, it works with all the inputs and
-+
+outputs that rmtxop handles, but allows for general expressions
-+
+like those in pcomb for putting matrices together, working on
-+
+an element at a time.  (No resizing of matrices or accessing
-+
+neighboring elements, as permitted in pcomb.)  It saves memory
-+
+over rmtxop by operating on a row at a time, so can handle
-+
+input and output matrices with any number of rows.  It does
-+
+provide for a single matrix-multiplication operation at the end,
-+
+which only requires memory for that final matrix.
-+
-+
+Added support for filtering hyperspectral images to pfilt.
-+
-+
+Added support for 1- and 3-component float matrix i/o to
-+
+pcomb to allow for better interoperability.
-+
-+
+Added support for -co+ option to rtpict, so it can directly
-+
+produce hyperspectral images.

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