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. |
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. |
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. |
2411 |
> |
|
2412 |
> |
Added explicit tests for on-edge intersections with polygons. This should |
2413 |
> |
eliminate stray rays and tiny light leaks that often appear even in |
2414 |
> |
well-constructed geometry. |
2415 |
> |
|
2416 |
> |
Added "-s up" option to pabopto2bsdf to allow for 180 degree symmetry, |
2417 |
> |
meaning that data repeats after 180 degree rotation (as distinguished |
2418 |
> |
from "-s bilateral" whose data is mirrored about a vertical plane). |
2419 |
> |
Thanks to Helen Rose Wilson for the suggestion and informing me that |
2420 |
> |
such a thing exists. |
2421 |
> |
|
2422 |
> |
Removed upper limit on number of modifiers in rcontrib. |
2423 |
> |
|
2424 |
> |
Put cap on maximum ambient gradient to avoid over-extrapolation of |
2425 |
> |
poorly computed irradiance cache values. |
2426 |
> |
|
2427 |
> |
Added robjutil +T option to triangulate all faces in .OBJ description. |
2428 |
> |
|
2429 |
> |
Altered BSDF library to have both front and back diffuse transmittance |
2430 |
> |
values, which can be different. This was necessary to avoid issues |
2431 |
> |
caused by measurement and modeling discrepancies. |
2432 |
> |
|
2433 |
> |
Added pabopto2bsdf -g option to cull near-grazing scattering to avoid |
2434 |
> |
issues with noise and negative values. |
2435 |
> |
|
2436 |
> |
Increased default dynamic range from 32 to 100 in pcond and normtiff. |
2437 |
> |
|
2438 |
> |
Added -o and -n options to genbox to create .OBJ output and segment |
2439 |
> |
edges and corners for transparent materials. Also added -s option |
2440 |
> |
to control smoothing for .OBJ and Radiance with segmented rounding. |
2441 |
> |
|
2442 |
> |
Made it so robjutil with the +r option for Radiance output now |
2443 |
> |
produces normal smoothing unless normals are removed with -n. |
2444 |
> |
|
2445 |
> |
Added exposure preservation to pcompos when possible (i.e., when |
2446 |
> |
there is only one input or inputs agree on exposure). |
2447 |
> |
|
2448 |
> |
Added -DSHARP_RGB compile-time option to use sharp RGB color space |
2449 |
> |
rather than historic default. This can make for more accurate color |
2450 |
> |
calculations, but requires that materials be recalibrated. The |
2451 |
> |
PRIMARIES= line is also produced on output from rpict or rvu with |
2452 |
> |
the correct set of primaries based on how the system was compiled. |
2453 |
> |
|
2454 |
> |
Added automatic flushing to the output of total, except when the -r |
2455 |
> |
(running subtotals) option is used. |
2456 |
> |
|
2457 |
> |
Improved behavior of little-used -aw option, so that it avoids sea-level |
2458 |
> |
rise caused by adding its own estimate back into the ambient level remainder. |
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. |
2545 |
> |
|
2546 |
> |
Added cnt -s option to shuffle output. |
2547 |
> |
|
2548 |
> |
Fixed issue with divide-by-zero errors in the ambient super-sampling |
2549 |
> |
routine discovered by Jon Sargent of Solemma. This affected regions |
2550 |
> |
that had zero radiance, such as black backgrounds or unlit areas |
2551 |
> |
with -av 0 0 0, when super-sampling was effectively disabled, causing |
2552 |
> |
some loss in accuracy of the results. |
2553 |
> |
|
2554 |
> |
Updated Klems Half- and Quarter-bases to match angles currently used |
2555 |
> |
in WINDOW. |
2556 |
> |
|
2557 |
> |
Eliminated most aiming failures for triangular light sources, at the |
2558 |
> |
expense of conservative sampling near the centroid. Thanks to |
2559 |
> |
David Geisler-Moroder for his help on this. |
2560 |
> |
|
2561 |
> |
Increased maximum set size to 8191 to avoid set overflow errors. |
2562 |
> |
|
2563 |
> |
Added source obstruction test to statistics being kept on which |
2564 |
> |
sources were visible in adaptive shadow testing code. Previous |
2565 |
> |
behavior was likely over-estimating source contributions. |
2566 |
> |
|
2567 |
> |
Added diffuse components into maximum directional hemispherical |
2568 |
> |
reported by checkBSDF, so comparing to 100% is easier for each |
2569 |
> |
component. |
2570 |
> |
|
2571 |
> |
Fixed incorrect calculations in iso2klems script, thanks to |
2572 |
> |
help from Jacob Jonnson. |
2573 |
> |
|
2574 |
> |
Updated official copyright and license according to new wording |
2575 |
> |
provided by Jean Haemmerle at the LBNL Intellectual Property Office. |
2576 |
> |
Both were copied verbatim from e-mail I received from Taoning Wang |
2577 |
> |
on 8/20/2022. |
2578 |
> |
|
2579 |
> |
Added -features option to rpict, rtrace, and rcontrib to check |
2580 |
> |
which features are present or look for specific feature support. |
2581 |
> |
This addition was suggested by Peter Apian-Bennewitz as an easier |
2582 |
> |
way to determine which version of Radiance is installed and what |
2583 |
> |
it supports, and is timely as we begin our refactoring of the |
2584 |
> |
rendering code. There are no current plans to add this to rvu. |
2585 |
> |
|
2586 |
> |
Added falsecolor -odim, -orct, and -c0 options to overlay grid of |
2587 |
> |
values on image. This was requested by Rob Shakespeare. |
2588 |
> |
|
2589 |
> |
Added -i* and -o* options in rhcopy for reading rays from the |
2590 |
> |
standard input and writing rays from holodeck to standard output. |
2591 |
> |
This will hopefully be useful in combining rholo with rcontrib. |
2592 |
> |
|
2593 |
> |
Added further checking for coincident (overlapping) flat surfaces, |
2594 |
> |
preferring front sides to back sides in the ray intersection |
2595 |
> |
calculation. This only applies to rings and faces, as the other |
2596 |
> |
surface types would have required additional calculations to |
2597 |
> |
make them work. Material transparency is still the primary |
2598 |
> |
consideration, now followed by ray hit side, followed by |
2599 |
> |
modifier definition order in the input. |
2600 |
> |
|
2601 |
> |
Increased octree and object limits to allow scenes with billions |
2602 |
> |
of primitives. |
2603 |
> |
|
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 |
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renderings compared to version 5.4a. |
2625 |
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|
2626 |
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Added spectral rendering to rvu as well, and made -cs and -cw |
2627 |
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options standard across the rendering library. I also brought |
2628 |
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mkillum, ranimove, rsensor, and mksource into the fold. These |
2629 |
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tools were broken in the initial release. (Hopefully, they are |
2630 |
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working now, but none have been tested as yet.) |
2631 |
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There was also an indexing bug in the spectral->RGB conversions |
2632 |
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that made reds into blues and vice versa, which has been fixed. |
2633 |
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|
2634 |
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Added i/o for spectral pictures to rmtxop, the first program that can |
2635 |
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ingest them. (Only rtrace, rcontrib, and rfluxmtx can render them.) |
2636 |
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New symbolic rmtxop -c options, such as RGB, XYZ, S (for scotopic) |
2637 |
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and M (for melanopic) make color conversions simpler. Alternatively, |
2638 |
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a reference matrix or picture may be given and the color space of |
2639 |
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that file will be used. The -C option takes either a symbolic |
2640 |
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color space or reference file and is "sticky," so it applies to |
2641 |
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all subsequent input files that do not have their own -c right ahead |
2642 |
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of them. |
2643 |
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|
2644 |
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Added spectral picture support to rcrop and radcompare. |
2645 |
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|
2646 |
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Added new utility, rmtxcomb, which is hard to type and hard to |
2647 |
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pronounce, and probably equally difficult to use. Sort of a |
2648 |
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combination of rmtxop and pcomb, it works with all the inputs and |
2649 |
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outputs that rmtxop handles, but allows for general expressions |
2650 |
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like those in pcomb for putting matrices together, working on |
2651 |
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an element at a time. (No resizing of matrices or accessing |
2652 |
> |
neighboring elements, as permitted in pcomb.) It saves memory |
2653 |
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over rmtxop by operating on a row at a time, so can handle |
2654 |
> |
input and output matrices with any number of rows. It does |
2655 |
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provide for a single matrix-multiplication operation at the end, |
2656 |
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which only requires memory for that final matrix. |
2657 |
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|
2658 |
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Added support for filtering hyperspectral images to pfilt. |
2659 |
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|
2660 |
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Added support for 1- and 3-component float matrix i/o to |
2661 |
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pcomb to allow for better interoperability. |