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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 |
+ |
renderings compared to version 5.4a. |
| 2625 |
+ |
|
| 2626 |
+ |
Added spectral rendering to rvu as well, and made -cs and -cw |
| 2627 |
+ |
options standard across the rendering library. I also brought |
| 2628 |
+ |
mkillum, ranimove, rsensor, and mksource into the fold. These |
| 2629 |
+ |
tools were broken in the initial release. (Hopefully, they are |
| 2630 |
+ |
working now, but none have been tested as yet.) |
| 2631 |
+ |
There was also an indexing bug in the spectral->RGB conversions |
| 2632 |
+ |
that made reds into blues and vice versa, which has been fixed. |
| 2633 |
+ |
|
| 2634 |
+ |
Added i/o for spectral pictures to rmtxop, the first program that can |
| 2635 |
+ |
ingest them. (Only rtrace, rcontrib, and rfluxmtx can render them.) |
| 2636 |
+ |
New symbolic rmtxop -c options, such as RGB, XYZ, S (for scotopic) |
| 2637 |
+ |
and M (for melanopic) make color conversions simpler. Alternatively, |
| 2638 |
+ |
a reference matrix or picture may be given and the color space of |
| 2639 |
+ |
that file will be used. The -C option takes either a symbolic |
| 2640 |
+ |
color space or reference file and is "sticky," so it applies to |
| 2641 |
+ |
all subsequent input files that do not have their own -c right ahead |
| 2642 |
+ |
of them. |
| 2643 |
+ |
|
| 2644 |
+ |
Added spectral picture support to rcrop and radcompare. |
| 2645 |
+ |
|
| 2646 |
+ |
Added new utility, rmtxcomb, which is hard to type and hard to |
| 2647 |
+ |
pronounce, and probably equally difficult to use. Sort of a |
| 2648 |
+ |
combination of rmtxop and pcomb, it works with all the inputs and |
| 2649 |
+ |
outputs that rmtxop handles, but allows for general expressions |
| 2650 |
+ |
like those in pcomb for putting matrices together, working on |
| 2651 |
+ |
an element at a time. (No resizing of matrices or accessing |
| 2652 |
+ |
neighboring elements, as permitted in pcomb.) It saves memory |
| 2653 |
+ |
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 |
+ |
provide for a single matrix-multiplication operation at the end, |
| 2656 |
+ |
which only requires memory for that final matrix. |
| 2657 |
+ |
|
| 2658 |
+ |
Added support for filtering hyperspectral images to pfilt. |
| 2659 |
+ |
|
| 2660 |
+ |
Added support for 1- and 3-component float matrix i/o to |
| 2661 |
+ |
pcomb to allow for better interoperability. |
