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# Line 1956 | Line 1956 | to klems_full.cal in the process.)
1956  
1957   Added "-c" option to getinfo to execute command on data segment.
1958  
1959 < =====================
1960 < Version 5.0
1959 > ================================
1960 > Version 5.0 (Released 9/18/2015)
1961  
1962   Changed rmtxop so it writes out same type as lesser of inputs unless
1963   directed otherwise using -f? option.
# Line 2053 | Line 2053 | accounted for properly as it is in the WINDOW program.
2053   Added Jan Wienold et al.'s evalglare to distribution.
2054  
2055   Hopeful fix to deadlock issue under Mac OS X 10.10.x (Yosemite).
2056 +
2057 + Fixed early exit of rcontrib with internal error (sample behind sender)
2058 + discovered by Rob G.
2059 +
2060 + =================================
2061 + Version 5.1 (Released 8/17/2017)
2062 +
2063 + Fixed issue with vchars.mta and symbols.mta not being installed in
2064 + the appropriate metafile library location, with help from Rob G.
2065 +
2066 + Added ability to give quoted strings to output= directive in rfluxmtx.
2067 +
2068 + ****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
2069 + Added ability to digest color (CIE-XYZ) input in pabopto2bsdf.
2070 + This change alters the .sir (interpolant) format, so these files
2071 + will need to be regenerated.  Use the new "#colorimetry: CIE-XYZ" tag
2072 + to enable on input.
2073 +
2074 + Rewrote bsdf2klems to support tristimulus color and call wrapBSDF.
2075 + Did the same for bsdf2ttree.  Function specifications still gray only.
2076 +
2077 + Reduced a problem where rvu or rholo would be slow to quit when
2078 + run with many processes on a large model or one with a large
2079 + ambient file (taking lots of memory).  We were waiting for
2080 + processes to quit one-by-one, which takes some time for each
2081 + process as it disentangles its shared memory.  We now
2082 + wait for all the processes together, so they can disentangle
2083 + in parallel.  It can still take up to a minute in some cases,
2084 + but not 10 minutes like it was taking before the fix.
2085 +
2086 + Enabled ambient cache value corral for all levels, not just final two.
2087 + This may reduce errors in certain pathological scenes.
2088 +
2089 + Added -in option to rcalc, rlam, and total to limit the number of
2090 + input records in hopes of circumventing Windows EOF issues on binary data.
2091 + Also added -on option to rcalc and total for logical symmetry.
2092 +
2093 + Increased modifier limit to 10,000 in rcontrib.
2094 +
2095 + Fixed issues with glrad and added zoom response to mouse wheel input.
2096 +
2097 + Added missing definition of "ashik2" material type to reference manual.
2098 +
2099 + Changed genBSDF to calculate device thickness assuming Zmax==0 so
2100 + pkgBSDF will generate correct proxy geometry.
2101 +
2102 + Created pabopto2xyz tool to combine different sensor measurements
2103 + into a single CIE-XYZ measurement file for color BSDF interpolation.
2104 +
2105 + Jan Wienold updated evalglare to version 1.30
2106 +
2107 + Roland Schregle added out-of-core photon mapping routines, which
2108 + may be compiled using the PMAP_OOC macro.
2109 +
2110 + Added -a option to getinfo for easy addition of header lines.
2111 +
2112 + Fixed issue with multiple records on picture output in rcontrib (and rfluxmtx).
2113 + Credit to Sarith Subramaniam for pointing out the problem.
2114 +
2115 + Made mkillum more tolerant of non-planar polygons in its sampling routines.
2116 +
2117 + Added "-recover" option to genBSDF to pick up where it left off.
2118 +
2119 + Fixed genBSDF issue that was created incorrect normalization of
2120 + Klems output.  Thanks to David G-M and Christian Knoflach for
2121 + discovering the error.  Also improved sampling of indirect irradiance
2122 + that showed some slight bias due to poor sample collision avoidance.
2123 +
2124 + Fixed long-standing issue with -aa 0 neglecting textures in calculating
2125 + surface shading.
2126 +
2127 + Fixed bug in ranimove introduced during photon map integration.
2128 +
2129 + Added check for steep sections of BSDF in pabopto2bsdf, creating narrower
2130 + peakes in those places and mitigating some normalization issues.
2131 +
2132 + Added view360stereo.cal by Mark Stock to handle 360-degree over/under
2133 + stereo views.
2134 +
2135 + Added MAX2SHADE macro to place limit on number of light sources
2136 + to precheck for obstructions.  (Currently set to 200.)  This
2137 + avoids excessive start-up times for scenes with many light sources.
2138 + Thanks to Axel Jacobs for pointing out the problem.
2139 +
2140 + Added -v option to obj2mesh to print out mesh statistics.
2141 +
2142 + Rewrote bsdf2rad from ground up and made it a standard part of build.
2143 +
2144 + Fixed bug in orientation of Reinhart/Tregenza sample generator in rfluxmtx.
2145 +
2146 + Added ability to perform shadow-testing through unproxied BSDFs with strong
2147 + through (direct-direct) component.
2148 +
2149 + Added {+|-}a options to genBSDF and bsdf2ttree for switching off reciprocity
2150 + averaging.
2151 +
2152 + Added bias to see through BTDFs with a strong "through" component
2153 + rather than scattering view rays.  This is in lieu of peak extraction,
2154 + which looked to be too difficult from an implementation standpoint.
2155 +
2156 + Added bsdfview tool analogous to objview but for BSDF files (XML and SIR),
2157 + which calls bsdf2rad then rad with a few useful default views.
2158 +
2159 + =========================
2160 + Version 5.2 (Release October 8, 2018)
2161 +
2162 + Created psketch program to apply non-photorealistic rendering to selected
2163 + objects, identified by modifier name(s).
2164 +
2165 + Added '*' and '/' operations to rmtxop for element-wise multiplication and
2166 + division of same-sized matrices.
2167 +
2168 + Changed falsecolor so "-s" option is adjusted to match legend if one.
2169 +
2170 + Falsecolor legend changes and improvements by David G-M and Stephen W.
2171 +
2172 + Fixed bug in peak extraction code that generated
2173 + "Bad call to SDqueryTreProjSA" error, reported by Lars Grobe.
2174 +
2175 + Increased maximum luminance to 10^7 in pcond to fix issue noticed
2176 + by Axel Jacobs where veiling glare not added for the sun under
2177 + some conditions.
2178 +
2179 + Increased maximum number of open files in rcontrib to the system upper
2180 + limit of 2048 rather than the default 512 under Windows.
2181 +
2182 + Added top-level resources directory with files from Rob Guglielmetti.
2183 +
2184 + Improved accuracy for peaky BSDFs and small light sources.
2185 +
2186 + Fixed issue with pmapdump noted by Axel Jacobs.
2187 +
2188 + Improved accuracy of bsdf2ttree when converting scattering interpolation
2189 + representatons with strong peaks.
2190 +
2191 + Tweaked peak-extraction code to work more reliably.
2192 +
2193 + Georg Mischler updated SCons build system.
2194 +
2195 + Rob Guglielmetti and Alex Swindler updated CMake build system.
2196 +
2197 + Modified pcomb so the first view seen in the inputs is written into header.
2198 +
2199 + Wrote rtpict script to run rtrace in parallel mode and simulate rpict with
2200 + -n option.
2201 +
2202 + Added ability to move forwards/backwards specified distance in rvu "origin"
2203 + command.  Feature requested by John Mardaljevic, who essentially owns this
2204 + command, now.
2205 +
2206 + Reduced bias in ambient super-sampling method.
2207 +
2208 + Fixed bugs associated with zero transmission in chromatic tensor trees.
2209 + Thanks to Lars Grobe for pointing out issues.
2210 +
2211 + Added RAYPATH searching for -f options to genrev, gensurf, genworm,
2212 + bsdf2klems, bsdf2ttree, and pcomb.  This makes behavior consistent
2213 + with rcalc, calc, and rendering tools.
2214 +
2215 + Worked with Randolph Fritz to fix some issues with ies2rad and newer
2216 + IESNA63 standards.
2217 +
2218 + Resurrected original bsdf2rad test program, renaming it bsdf2rado. Still an
2219 + optional build in src/cv/.
2220 +
2221 + Fixed bug in rcontrib with virtual sources, where pretest was adding
2222 + to modifier accumulation buffers.  Reported by Mostapha.
2223 +
2224 + Added an "aBSDF" material type that explicitly checks for peak extraction.
2225 + Its arguments are the same as the original "BSDF" type, but without the
2226 + thickness parameter, as proxy geometry is not supported by this new type.
2227 + The old "BSDF" type no longer does peak extraction under any circumstances,
2228 + since this behavior is superfluous for proxied geometry.
2229 +
2230 + Added -r option to bsdf2rad (and bsdfview) to fix BSDF min and max range
2231 + for comparing BSDFs.
2232 +
2233 + Fixed issue with pfilt -m option and uneven image size changes pointed
2234 + out by Rob Shakespeare.
2235 +
2236 + Updates to evalglare and gendaylit from Jan Wienold, including new
2237 + colored sky option.
2238 +
2239 + =========================
2240 + Version 5.3
2241 +
2242 + Created radcompare program to compare Radiance tool output to reference outputs
2243 + during unit-testing.
2244 +
2245 + Fixed issue reading very large files (> 2 GBytes) in rcollate.
2246 +
2247 + Made picking function in rvu ignore transparent and void surfaces.
2248 +
2249 + Added -orRxX options to rtrace to enable output of mirrored and unmirrored
2250 + contributions and distances to enable new types of reprojections.  This also
2251 + cleaned up and unified handling of effective ray lengths throughout code.
2252 +
2253 + Bug fixes from Jan Wienold for evalglare.
2254 +
2255 + Changed indexed (numbered) output from dctimestep to start from 0 rather
2256 + than 1, to make it more consistent with expected input naming.

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