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Revision 1.313 by greg, Mon Feb 5 20:07:17 2018 UTC vs.
Revision 1.363 by greg, Mon Jan 20 17:53:40 2020 UTC

# Line 2157 | Line 2157 | Added bsdfview tool analogous to objview but for BSDF
2157   which calls bsdf2rad then rad with a few useful default views.
2158  
2159   =========================
2160 < Version 5.2
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).
# Line 2195 | Line 2195 | Georg Mischler updated SCons build system.
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.
2257 +
2258 + Increased default sampling in bsdf2klems (-n option) to 1024.
2259 +
2260 + Fixed an issue noticed by David G-M that was causing genBSDF to bias
2261 + isotropic tensor tree samples resulting in subsequent failure of
2262 + peak extraction with "aBSDF" type.
2263 +
2264 + Introduced max() and min() functions to .cal library.
2265 +
2266 + Added random incident patch sampling to bsdf2klems to improve accuracy
2267 + with scattering interpolation representation input (e.g., from
2268 + pabopto2bsdf).  The other input types already sampled incident patch area.
2269 +
2270 + Added gendaymtx -A option to compute average sky over all the input
2271 + time steps.
2272 +
2273 + Added ability to output color image from rtrace with any of -ovrx options.
2274 + Also fixed inconsistency of -oN output when ray casting versus full trace.
2275 + Before, it would flip normal to front side unless ray casting.  Now, -oN
2276 + always reports the unflipped normal.
2277 +
2278 + Changed rlam behavior so -iaN reads N lines from a stream rather than N
2279 + characters.  This seems more useful, since -ibN is somewhat redundant with
2280 + the old behavior.
2281 +
2282 + Created rsplit program as compliment to rlam and to handle more complex
2283 + rtrace output into separate files or streams.
2284 +
2285 + Improved getinfo so that it can also hop over resolution string with -c
2286 + and header elide mode.  Use +d to include resolution string in output,
2287 + and -d to elide with - and -c options.
2288 +
2289 + Made pvalue -u option mean "uncompressed" with -r.  Also, allow skipping
2290 + bytes on standard input.
2291 +
2292 + Created rcode_depth tool to convert to and from a 16-bit/pixel portable
2293 + depth image encoding that uses a mix of linear and reciprocal distance
2294 + with explicit representations of 0 and infinity.  Code for loading these
2295 + depth maps is in src/common/depthcodec.{h,c}.
2296 +
2297 + Created rcode_norm tool to convert to and from 32-bit/pixel portable
2298 + surface normal representation, matching the one in src/common/dircode.c.
2299 + Code for loading normal maps is in src/common/normcodec.{h,c}.
2300 +
2301 + Created rcode_ident tool to create indexed identifier files.
2302 + Code for loading these files is in src/common/idmap.{h,c}.
2303 +
2304 + Added -o* option to rtpict to produce layered images that handle most
2305 + output types from rtrace (colors, surface normals, distances, IDs).
2306 +
2307 + Created rcode2bmp script to create images from new rcode_* output maps.
2308 +
2309 + Improved efficiency of rmtxop in cases where matrix multiplication is
2310 + faster evaluated right-to-left, as when the final component is a
2311 + column vector.  Also added ability to apply trailing unary operators
2312 + (-t, and -s or -c) to resulting matrix.
2313 +
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.
2319 +
2320 + Added new "turbo" palette to falsecolor (thanks to Taoning).
2321 +
2322 + Nathaniel Jones created the "dcglare" program for annual glare
2323 + simulations when the sun and sky are visible through the window.
2324 + Tutorial is posted at
2325 + "https://github.com/nljones/Accelerad/wiki/The-Imageless-Method-for-Spatial-and-Annual-Glare-Analysis".
2326 +
2327 + Added support for loading RGBE images into matrices in dctimestep.
2328 +
2329 + Added -y option to gensky and gendaylit to support more accurate Michalsky
2330 + solar position calculation.
2331 +
2332 + Changed rsplit so specifying a space as the separator parses words
2333 + between whitespace.
2334 +
2335 + Added ability of vwrays, pinterp, and pmblur2 to read encoded depth files.
2336 +
2337 + Added -o RxCxR1xC1 facility to perform blocking in rcollate.
2338 +
2339 + Made it so number of segments in genworm, genrev, and gensurf can be
2340 + given as expressions of previously defined variables, etc.
2341 +
2342 + Added -D and -n option to gendaymtx to output sun description and skip
2343 + matrix output on request.
2344 +
2345 + Updated eplus_uvf to work with IDF version 9.x, checking version number.

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