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# Line 2603 | Line 2603 | of primitives.
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2604   Made reciprocity averaging default to "off" in bsdf2ttree, as it seems
2605   to create more problems than it solves.
2606 +
2607 + ====================
2608 + Version 6.0
2609 +
2610 + Extensive changes to enable spectral rendering, which defaults to "off"
2611 + to maintain backwards-compatibility with previous versions, with the
2612 + exception of the ambient file format, which is changed.  The MAXCSAMP
2613 + macro, which defaults to 24, sets the maximum number of spectral samples.
2614 + The actual number of samples is set by the "-cs" option, which defaults
2615 + to 3 for rpict, rtrace, and rcontrib.  The latter two programs support
2616 + straight spectral output, but rpict is initially restricted to
2617 + tristimulus output pictures.  New pattern primitives "spectrum",
2618 + "specfile", and "specfunc" have been added as a means to specify
2619 + spectral reflectance, emittance, etc. to materials that still have
2620 + only 3 color channels.  Those RGB channels will still affect the
2621 + spectrum if used.  Unfortunately photon-mapping is currently broken when
2622 + spectral sampling is enabled, but we will fix this as soon as possible.
2623 + Calculation overhead appears to be approximately 10-15% for RGB
2624 + renderings compared to version 5.4a.

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