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# 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 1382 | Line 1382 | care to support officially due to its machine-dependen
1382   Fixed bug that caused incorrect reporting of non-surface in set when
1383   mixing meshes and instances.  (Thanks to Jack de Valpine for discovery.)
1384  
1385 < Fixed innacuracy in calculation of diffuse transmission in the presence
1385 > Fixed inaccuracy in calculation of diffuse transmission in the presence
1386   of pure specular (Fresnel reflection) using "trans" material.  Thanks
1387   to Christoph Reinhart for pointing out the error.
1388  
# Line 1457 | Line 1457 | Added tilde ('~') output option as part of the -o* spe
1457   rtrace.  This permits ray trees to be parsed more easily in binary
1458   output mode, as needed by rtcontrib.
1459  
1460 < Implemented Russian roulette ray termination with -lr set to 0.  Made
1461 < this the default in rtcontrib.
1460 > Implemented Russian roulette ray termination with -lr <= 0.
1461 > Made -lr -10 the default in rtcontrib.
1462 >
1463 > Made rtcontrib -f option search RAYPATH directories.
1464 >
1465 > Made it so -o option of rtcontrib can pipe -o output to a command.
1466 >
1467 > Added -if and -of options to total for binary i/o (following rcalc mold).
1468 >
1469 > Switched default options in rtrace to use Russian roulette.  (Rpict and rvu
1470 > still use biased ray termination.)
1471 >
1472 > Added rtcontrib -r option to recover partial output.
1473 >
1474 > Added -u rendering option for pure Monte Carlo sampling.
1475 > (Got rid of -DMC compile option, which this makes superfluous.)
1476 >
1477 > Changed -t option of rlam to accept strings as well as single characters.
1478 >
1479 > Fixed bug in rcalc with -l option where it would sometimes go into an
1480 > infinite loop.
1481 >
1482 > Fixed truly ancient bug in bounding box computation for cones, which
1483 > could (and did) cause missing segments.
1484 >
1485 > Added -z option to normtiff to output LZW-compressed files.
1486 >
1487 > Last change to total causes it to produce results when it sees an empty
1488 > line on the input.  This was not intentional, but I decided I like this
1489 > behavior so I documented it rather than changing it.
1490 >
1491 > =====================
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
1496 > minimum ray sampling weight (serious).
1497 >
1498 > Changed mksource to use 98th percentile (rather than 99th) for threshold.
1499 >
1500 > (Above changes included in 3.7.1 patch release.)
1501 >
1502 > Eliminated writing of EXPOSURE= line in ra_tiff -r when source TIFF
1503 > does not have STONITS set.
1504 >
1505 > Fixed bug in ambient calculation that caused black values for multiple
1506 > bounces in some scenes.  Thanks to Mark Stock for creating and sharing
1507 > the sophisticated test scene that demonstrated this problem.
1508 >
1509 > Fixed bug in antimatter using Russian Roulette sampling.
1510 >
1511 > (Above changes included in 3.7.2 patch release 22 Aug 2005.)
1512 >
1513 > Created fieldcomb script to combine alternate fields in a rendering
1514 > sequence.  (Development generously sponsored by Iebele Abel.)
1515 >
1516 > Added missing preload of mesh objects for more efficient memory use
1517 > during parallel rendering -- this was a serious oversight.
1518 >
1519 > Created ran2tiff program to automate exposure setting of animation
1520 > sequences using a moving histogram in combination with pcond, and
1521 > converting frames to TIFF.
1522 >
1523 > Eliminated SPEED macro from makeall and source tree.
1524 >
1525 > Added -pj option to vwrays to allow jittering of sample locations.
1526 >
1527 > Fixed bug in rtcontrib where it occasionally missed writing the
1528 > final bin file.  (Pretty serious, actually.)
1529 >
1530 > Added -Dfseeko=fseek to MACH= line for linux, as fseeko(3) seems to be
1531 > broken in current versions of Linux.  (Need to remove this later.)
1532 >
1533 > Rearranged struct's for better efficiency on 64-bit architectures.
1534 >
1535 > Added -i option to rlam so it works with binary input formats.
1536 >
1537 > Added rtcontrib -bn option to specify number of bins and fixed bug
1538 > in recovery of files containing multiple values per record.
1539 >
1540 > Added rtcontrib -fo option to write over existing files, which it now
1541 > refuses to do without this option.
1542 >
1543 > Made rtcontrib flush output when handed a zero-length ray vector,
1544 > to match behavior of rtrace.
1545 >
1546 > Improved color scale for falsecolor output.
1547 >
1548 > Added threshold test for Fresnel approximation to prevent its use
1549 > on smooth surfaces with unrealistically low specularities (less than 1.8%).
1550 > Water has a specular reflectance of 2.1% at room temperture.
1551 >
1552 > Removed NICE macro settings in rpict and rtrace, which was slowing down
1553 > the processes under Mac OS X (10.4) by about 60% due to processor napping.
1554 >
1555 > Made xform, replmarks and rad2mgf handle quoted modifiers and names properly.
1556 >
1557 > Fixed problem in genblinds, where it was generating slats that were too
1558 > wide with the +/-r option.  (Thanks to Helena Buelow-Huebe for discovering
1559 > this bug.)
1560 >
1561 > Fixed bug in ra_ppm for 16-bit/sample i/o, where it was getting the byte
1562 > order wrong (apparently).
1563 >
1564 > Added -V option to rtcontrib to report actual contributions, rather than
1565 > just ray coefficients.
1566 >
1567 > Fixed bug in ranimate that caused it to fail in continuation of renderings.
1568 >
1569 > Renamed librt.a to librtrad.a, to avoid conflict on Solaris. Almost
1570 > everything now gets linked to -lrtrad instead of -lrt.
1571 >
1572 > Fixed problem with large sample sets, so -u+ option now is truly random.
1573 > Thanks to Rick Mistrick and Younju Yoon for identifying this problem,
1574 > which was related to a poorly designed hash function.
1575 >
1576 > Changed -u+ to be the default setting in rtrace (only).
1577 >
1578 > Fixed binary i/o for rlam and vwrays under Windows.
1579 >
1580 > Added tmCvLums() to tone-mapping routines using a 16-bit lookup table
1581 > on IEEE floats, which is also used to improve speed of COLOR conversions,
1582 > especially on machines with slow log() calls.  The first call to
1583 > tmCvLums(), tmCvGrays(), or tmCvColors() initializes the table.
1584 >
1585 > Created optics2rad.csh script to convert from Optics 5 material output
1586 > to something correct for Radiance.  Built on old glazing.cal function,
1587 > which is actually incorrect so removed from the distribution.
1588 >
1589 > Fixed nuisance bug in ximage under some SGI machines that caused it to
1590 > choose an inappropriate visual and display incorrect colors.  (Thanks
1591 > to Oskar Itzinger for debugging the problem.)
1592 >
1593 > Fixed long-standing inaccuracy of pcompos -t and +t thresholding options.
1594 >
1595 > Fixed bug in handling of views with tabs rather than spaces.
1596 >
1597 > Fixed bug related to alias of alias.
1598 >
1599 > ****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
1600 > Changed default sky turbidity in gensky from the original default of
1601 > 2.75 to the CIE 110-1994 standard value of 2.45.  Thanks to Marilyne
1602 > Anderson of MIT for pointing out this discrepancy.
1603 >
1604 > Added -o option to ra_xyze to produce original pixel values.
1605 >
1606 > Fixed bug in tracing of virtual sources, where intervening glazing was
1607 > not being accounted for properly.
1608 >
1609 > Added -h option to pcompos and pcomb to eliminate verbose headers.
1610 >
1611 > =====================
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.
1616 >
1617 > Added byte-swapping input and output to rcalc.
1618 >
1619 > Additional error-checking for source surfaces.
1620 >
1621 > Re-fixed bug in octree code that caused it to allocate 8 times as
1622 > much memory as it actually used(!) -- this was pointed out way back
1623 > in 1999 by Erik Reinhard and Erik Jansen, but the fix they gave me
1624 > got lost in the slightly broken release process at the time.  This
1625 > should make a big difference in memory usage, especially for the
1626 > new mesh primitive.  (I measured 30% less memory usage.)
1627 >
1628 > Corrected ray weights for material mixtures.
1629 >
1630 > Reduced the default -n setting for obj2mesh to take better advantage
1631 > of the smaller octree structure size.
1632 >
1633 > Fixed bug in shadow cache where it was adding surfaces with antimatter
1634 > holes cut in them to the obstructor list.  Thanks to John Mardaljevic
1635 > for discovering and reporting the problem.
1636 >
1637 > Adding ability in mkillum to incorporate BSDF data in calculation.
1638 > Internal interface (raypcalls) now used in place of rtrace process(es).
1639 >
1640 > Fixed pixel alignment in pcomb for size reduction and enlargement.
1641 >
1642 > Allow rtcontrib user to set -P and -PP options for persistent rendering.
1643 > The only caveat is that -n setting > 1 requires -PP rather than -P.
1644 >
1645 > Added -c option to rtcontrib to facilitate cumulative calculations.
1646 >
1647 > ****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
1648 > Fixed long-standing bug in source.cal, which caused it to produce
1649 > reversed anisotropic photometric distributions due to the
1650 > misorientation of the y-axis.  Thanks to Zack Rogers for discovering
1651 > and helping debug this problem.
1652 >
1653 > Fixed long-standing bug in replmarks, where triangles with X-side
1654 > aligned with Z-axis would cause incorrect rotations.  Thanks to
1655 > Zack Rogers for finding this error.
1656 >
1657 > Added rsensor program to compute sensor signal for daylighting controls.
1658 > Funding for this component was provided by the Architectural Energy
1659 > Corporation in Boulder, CO, and directed by Zack Rogers.
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 (Released 11/04/2011)
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.
1739 >
1740 > Modified dctimestep to accept sky vector and daylight coefficient matrix
1741 > or list of images to sum together, as suggested by Andy McNeil.
1742 >
1743 > Created genBSDF script to generate BSDF in Windows XML format.
1744 >
1745 > Modified mkillum to accept detailed geometry from BSDF XML files.
1746 >
1747 > Altered obj2rad to ignore zero normals (thanks to Jack de Valpine for
1748 > suggestions and help).
1749 >
1750 > Fixed bug in genklemsamp that caused non-uniform sampling over surfaces.
1751 >
1752 > Fixed bugs in rhoptimize and rhcopy for 64-bit compilation.
1753 >
1754 > Made a change to avoid problem using gcc --fast-math compile option.
1755 >
1756 > ****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
1757 > Changed behavior of rtrace and rtcontrib so that every scanline is
1758 > not flushed when both -x and -y are set.  This avoids flush delays
1759 > in rtcontrib for large numbers of output files and delays while
1760 > rendering images using rtrace with the -n option.
1761 >
1762 > Added ability for rsensor to output ray origins and directions
1763 > rather than actually loading octree and computing sensor value.
1764 >
1765 > Fixed old bug in obj2rad where it would stop processing and
1766 > report a syntax error if the "void" type is used in the map file.
1767 >
1768 > Updated reflection model according to EGSR 2010 paper by David
1769 > Geisler-Moroder and Arne Duer.
1770 >
1771 > Replaced C-shell version of falsecolor with Perl script written
1772 > by Axel Jacobs.
1773 >
1774 > ****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
1775 > Changed -sj (specular jitter) option to something called specular
1776 > sampling (-ss), which if set less than 1 has the same behavior as
1777 > the old -sj, but when set greater than 1, spawns multiple ray
1778 > samples from semi-specular surfaces.
1779 >
1780 > Fixed bug noticed by Randolph Fritz that caused ambient sync errors.
1781 >
1782 > Fixed bug in findglare for reading picture files under Windows.
1783 >
1784 > Added options to pvalue to note other color spaces on reverse conversion.
1785 > Thanks to Erich Philips for the feature request.
1786 >
1787 > Added BSDF data-driven material type with full sampling support.
1788 >
1789 > Added BRDF calculations to genBSDF.
1790 >
1791 > Bug fixes in rsensor thanks to help from David Geisler-Moroder.
1792 >
1793 > Added variable-resolution BSDF support in renderers and genBSDF.
1794 >
1795 > Created pkgBSDF program to extract BSDF geometry and put it
1796 > together with surface description suitable for inclusion in
1797 > a Radiance scene.
1798 >
1799 > Muted warning for "no light sources found" when there is at least
1800 > one glow object and interreflections are on (-ab > 0).
1801 >
1802 > Fixed long-standing bug that caused underestimation of reflection
1803 > when specular component was below -st threshold in non-metals.
1804 >
1805 > Checked in cross-platform cmake build system created by Bill Hoffman
1806 > of KitWare and sponsored by NREL.  This includes a qt-based
1807 > driver for rvu, which is built in the new subdirectory src/qtrvu.
1808 >
1809 > =====================
1810 > Version 4.2
1811 >
1812 > Axel Jacobs added -cp and -palettes options to falsecolor.
1813 >
1814 > Fixed bug in matrix output of genBSDF introduced shortly before 4.1 release.
1815 >
1816 > Made rvu more responsive in multi-processing mode when changing parameters.
1817 > Explicit "new" command not needed to show changes, because it goes back
1818 > to "immediate mode" once something is changed.  Processing will be slow
1819 > but response time quick until next "new" command.
1820 >
1821 > Fixed major bug in transmitting proxy material sampling.
1822 >
1823 > Patched cmake build tools (changes by Zack Galbreath).
1824 >
1825 > Removed requirement for pflip -h to be given input file (can pipe from stdin).
1826 >
1827 > Added "Number of processes" slider to trad "Action" pane to control rad -N
1828 > option for rvu and batch rendering.
1829 >
1830 > Added -c option to vwrays to repeat pixels for rtcontrib.
1831 >
1832 > Reworked rtcontrib program and renamed to rcontrib.  New version runs much
1833 > faster, especially on multiprocessor systems, and doesn't require as much
1834 > memory.  No longer calls rtrace; instead does all the work itself.
1835 >
1836 > Added -d option to genskyvec to produce direct-only (sun no sky) vector.
1837 >
1838 > Added Ashikhmin-Shirley anisotropic BRDF model (ashik2) with help
1839 > from Nicolas Boneel.
1840 >
1841 > Added Ruby rewrite of objview.csh by Rob Guglielmetti.

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