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# Line 2459 | Line 2459 | rise caused by adding its own estimate back into the a
2459   It ended up being simple enough to derate the final average by the factor
2460   corresponding to average surface absorpition, thus removing the average
2461   from the final bounce estimate.
2462 +
2463 + Introduced ies2rad upgrades by Randolph Fritz.  Randolph says it
2464 + fixes the following problems:
2465 +
2466 +        1. Generates correct Radiance geometry for spheres in 1995, 2002,
2467 +        and 2019 IES files.
2468 +
2469 +        2. Generates correct Radiance geometry for vertical cylinders that
2470 +        are taller than they are wide.
2471 +
2472 +        3. Ignores the file source ("File Generation Type") field in the
2473 +        2019 version of the file, which would otherwise be incorrectly used
2474 +        as an output multiplier.
2475 +
2476 +    It also offers the following enhancements:
2477 +
2478 +        1. Shape information is included in the .rad file comments.
2479 +
2480 +        2. 1995, 2002, and 2019-version luminous opening geometry is
2481 +        accounted for.
2482 +
2483 +        3. The 2002 and 2019 IES file versions are recognized and
2484 +        processed appropriately.
2485 +
2486 +        4. I have made an attempt to do something intelligent with less
2487 +        common "luminous opening" shapes in the 1995, 2002, and 2019 versions
2488 +        of the standard, though I have not implemented any support for new
2489 +        geometry; approximations are substituted and warning messages issued.
2490 +        Unfortunately, this code is not tested, since I don't have any IES
2491 +        files that use these shapes.
2492 +
2493 + Added support for depth-of-field blurring in vwrays using -pd option.
2494 + Also, made -c count work with vwrays -i, producing multiple samples
2495 + per indicated pixel position.  At the same time, support for the -pd
2496 + option was added to rtpict, which calls on vwrays for its samples.
2497 +
2498 + Fixed issue with BSDFs that didn't obey reciprocity, where direct
2499 + sampling wasn't following exactly with indirect sampling.  This was
2500 + discovered and reported by Jon Sargent.
2501 +
2502 + Created checkBSDF tool to test XML BSDF reciprocity and perform similar
2503 + sanity checks.
2504 +
2505 + Added -O option to pvalue and pextrem to report watts/sr/m^2 even if
2506 + picture is XYZE.
2507 +
2508 + Made subtle changes to header i/o routines to preserve alignment in
2509 + binary file formats to enable memory-mapping.  Implemented memory-mapped
2510 + matrix loading in rmtxop for binary double files.
2511 +
2512 + Removed ambient value sorting, which was written when ambient caches
2513 + could overwhelm available memory.  This is rarely the case these days,
2514 + and the added code complexity and updating of cache values with LRU
2515 + counts dirties pages that would otherwise remain clean, so it was
2516 + often a loss even when VM was an issue.
2517 +
2518 + Added iso2klems script to compute a Klems BSDF based on specular
2519 + and diffuse measurements as a function of incident angle.
2520 +
2521 + Fixed issue with over-counting diffuse component during aBSDF
2522 + peak extraction.
2523 +
2524 + Added dctimestep -x and -y options to specify image dimensions
2525 + for multiple outputs corresponding to result vectors.
2526 +
2527 + Added -P option to rcalc to pass formatted input when cond is <= 0.
2528 +
2529 + Created rcrop utility for cropping matrices and pictures more
2530 + conveniently, correcting view information.  Expect it to be handy
2531 + for extracting rows and columns from matrices, mostly.
2532 +
2533 + Changed pcomb so -o option elides original exposure values
2534 + from indented source headers.
2535 +
2536 + Added getinfo -r option, which is similar to -a except it will
2537 + replace indicated lines with new ones.
2538 +
2539 + Slight change to vwrays -d option to not spit out "-ld-", and to
2540 + produce "-ld+" without requiring input picture as argument.
2541 +
2542 + Added automatic overture calculation to rtpict with -n > 1 if
2543 + ambient cache is on and file is named.  If straight image output
2544 + is requested, we randomize all samples and avoid cache collisions.

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