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Revision 1.382 by greg, Sun Jan 31 18:08:04 2021 UTC

# Line 2237 | Line 2237 | Updates to evalglare and gendaylit from Jan Wienold, i
2237   colored sky option.
2238  
2239   =========================
2240 < Version 5.3
2240 > Version 5.3 (Released September 1, 2020)
2241  
2242   Created radcompare program to compare Radiance tool output to reference outputs
2243   during unit-testing.
# Line 2314 | Line 2314 | column vector.  Also added ability to apply trailing u
2314   Added new depth, normal, and ID file types to radcompare.
2315  
2316   Added BigEndian= header line for automatic byte-swapping in rmtxop
2317 < and radcompare.  Doesn't work quite as automatically as it should
2318 < for pvalue -r, currently.
2317 > and radcompare.
2318 >
2319 > Added new "turbo" palette to falsecolor (thanks to Taoning).
2320 >
2321 > Nathaniel Jones created the "dcglare" program for annual glare
2322 > simulations when the sun and sky are visible through the window.
2323 > Tutorial is posted at
2324 > "https://github.com/nljones/Accelerad/wiki/The-Imageless-Method-for-Spatial-and-Annual-Glare-Analysis".
2325 >
2326 > Added support for loading RGBE images into matrices in dctimestep.
2327 >
2328 > Added -y option to gensky and gendaylit to support more accurate Michalsky
2329 > solar position calculation.
2330 >
2331 > Changed rsplit, so specifying a space as the separator parses words
2332 > between whitespace.
2333 >
2334 > Added ability of vwrays, pinterp, and pmblur2 to read encoded depth files.
2335 >
2336 > Added -o RxCxR1xC1 facility to perform blocking in rcollate.
2337 >
2338 > Made it so number of segments in genworm, genrev, and gensurf can be
2339 > given as expressions of previously defined variables, etc.
2340 >
2341 > Added -D and -n option to gendaymtx to output sun description and skip
2342 > matrix output on request.  A -M option was also added to output solar
2343 > modifiers for rcontrib.  Support also added for leap days in WEA input.
2344 > Enhancements sponsored by Ladybug Tools.
2345 >
2346 > Updated eplus_uvf to work with IDF version 9.x, checking version number.
2347 >
2348 > Fix to glarendx issues with dgi calculation.
2349 >
2350 > Made it so rmtxop and dctimestep undo any exposure applied to Radiance
2351 > pictures they may load.
2352 >
2353 > Added robjutil utility to manipulate Wavefront .OBJ files.
2354 >
2355 > Fixed a crash related to rtrace -om or -oM with mesh instances containing
2356 > materials.
2357 >
2358 > Improved rtrace flushing function to handle any value for -x without
2359 > deadlock on controlling process.
2360 >
2361 > Eliminated unnecessary start-up procedures for rtrace when only ray-casting
2362 > is needed (i.e., no tracing or value output).
2363 >
2364 > Improved isotropic sampling method in bsdf2ttree using "zipper" approach
2365 > applied in genBSDF.
2366 >
2367 > Added limit to memory used by high-resolution tensor tree BSDFs for
2368 > cumulative cache during MC sampling (rendering).  Limit set to 250MBytes
2369 > per BSDF for standard architectures.
2370 >
2371 > Added -n and -s options to bsdf2ttree to provide some user control
2372 > over super-sampling.
2373 >
2374 > Improved surface normal codec used by ambient file to store orthonormal
2375 > directions exactly.
2376 >
2377 > Improved peak extraction method, which was undervaluing transmission
2378 > in many cases.
2379 >
2380 > New version of evalglare from Jan Wienold.
2381 >
2382 > Added -u option to gendaymtx to elide data columns (time steps) when
2383 > the sun is not visible above the horizon.
2384 >
2385 > =========================
2386 > Version 5.4
2387 >
2388 > Added rcollate -c option to force operation to continue even if it
2389 > seems unnecessary.  Made tool more robust.
2390 >
2391 > Added -t option to rcontrib (and rfluxmtx) to report progress after the
2392 > given number of seconds.
2393 >
2394 > Added "test" target to makeall to run unit tests.
2395 >
2396 > Modified bsdf2ttree to allow different parameters per input SIR file.
2397 >
2398 > Fixed issues with very large matrix files (> 2GB) in dctimestep, rmtxop,
2399 > and rcollate.
2400 >
2401 > Added -rf and -rb options to rmtxop to load front or back reflectance
2402 > matrix data from XML file rather than transmission.  (Lars Grobe suggested.)
2403 >
2404 > Improved behavior for coincident surfaces with different materials.
2405 > Rather than returning one surface or the other based on floating-point
2406 > vagaries, opaque materials are now preferred over transparent ones.
2407 > If the materials are both transparent or both opaque, then whichever
2408 > surface appeared later in the scene description will be selected.
2409 > This came of a request for consistent behavior with legal CAD output
2410 > from Peter Apian-Bennewitz.

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