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Revision 1.76 by greg, Thu May 26 06:55:22 2005 UTC

+Made similar change for virtual sources to allow modifiers and aliases
+on the mirror and prism types to work properly.
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+Rob Guglielmetti dded -lw and -lh options to falsecolor to control the
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+Rob Guglielmetti added -lw and -lh options to falsecolor to control the
+legend dimensions.  Made it so -lw 0 and/or -lh 0 turns legend off.
+Made it so pcompos will read everything from a stream even if it doesn't
+Added -p option to rcalc for "passive mode" that transmits
+unrecognized input -- useful for substituting data in the
+middle of a stream.
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+Fixed a very obscure bug in rpict that caused a dark horizontal
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+line in certain cylindrical projections due to improper drawing
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+of the sky dome source in rt/srcdraw.c.
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+Fixed problems with effective ray lengths computed for dielectric
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+and BRTDfunc materials.  This was most evident in breakup of holodeck
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+views when VDISTANCE=True.
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+Fixed rad so that 'scene' variable may consist only of inline commands.
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+Fixed bug introduced in shadow caching routines where sources in the
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+middle of spheres were not illuminating properly.  Thanks to Guilio
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+Antonutto for spotting this problem.
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+Modified gensky behavior so if time is given with standard time zone
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+designation, any -m option is ignored.
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+Added -n option to mkillum for (shared memory) parallel processing.
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+Fixed a long-standing bug in parallel processing code that only
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+seemed to manifest with the new mkillum -n option, where rtrace
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+would deadlock upon termination.  The reason it never showed up
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+before is because I always closed processes in the reverse order
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+of opening them in other programs.  I went through and found similar
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+(potential) bugs in the rview device subprocess code and util/netproc.c.
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+Corrected the normalization of the Gaussian reflectance model.  This will
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+cause an increase in specularity for low-lying light sources.
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+Thanks to Don Walters of Boeing and Arne Duer of the Univ. of Innsbruck
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+for pointing out this error.  The square root used for the two cosines
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+in the denominator of the normalization factor should not be present.
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+This was a serious mistake I made in the original model, which went
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+undiscovered (at least to my knowledge) for over a decade.  I think
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+Bruce Walter of Cornell may have known about it, but I never heard
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+the details of his discovery.
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+Enabled the -p option for primary conversion without tone-mapping
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+in ra_bmp.  Also provides for XYZE input conversion to RGB.
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+Fixed what I consider a bug in pvalue -o when taking XYZE files on input,
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+where it was inappropriately undoing the exposure value so that it always
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+reported radiance rather than XYZ values with Y in cd/m^2.
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+Made it so ra_bmp only produces run-length encoded 8-bit output for
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+grayscale images that are tone-mapped.  This minimizes circumstances
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+under which output scanline order is reversed.
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+Fixed bug in rcalc where it sometimes wasn't parsing the input format
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+correctly.
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+=====================
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+Version 3.7
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+Fixed bug in source occluder cache which caused consistency error
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+for distant sources and mist materials.  (Thanks to Mark Stock for
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+finding the problem.)
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+Fixed serious bug in source drawing routines for rpict, where the edges
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+of light sources were appearing through obstructions.  (Thanks to Veronica
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+Sundstedt for pointing this out.)
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+(The above were included in the 3.6.1 patch release.)
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+Changed default temporary directory from /usr/tmp, which doesn't exist
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+on a lot of systems these days, to /tmp.
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+Eliminated many unused files and programs from the distribution, including
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+the following programs that were being built but no longer used:
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+        oki20   - printer driver for OkiMate 20 printer (B&W)
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+        oki20c  - printer driver for OkiMate 20 color printer
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+        pcwarp  - intended as more general substitute for macbetcal,
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+                        but never quite worked
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+        ra_avs  - convert to & from AVS image format
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+        ra_bn   - convert to & from Barneyscann format
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+        ra_pr   - convert to & from 8-bit Sun rasterfile format
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+        ra_pr24 - convert to & from 24-bit Sun rasterfile format
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+        thf2rad - convert GDS "things file" to Radiance scene format
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+If anyone is still wanting any of the above programs, let us know and we'll
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+reinstate it.
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+Fixed bug in pcond's acuity simulation for small view angles (less than
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+degrees horizontally or vertically).  Thanks to James Lee for figuring
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+this out.
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+Added script to convert to/from ICT's Poskanzer Float Map, which I don't
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+care to support officially due to its machine-dependent byte order.
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+Fixed bug that caused incorrect reporting of non-surface in set when
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+mixing meshes and instances.  (Thanks to Jack de Valpine for discovery.)
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+Fixed innacuracy in calculation of diffuse transmission in the presence
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+of pure specular (Fresnel reflection) using "trans" material.  Thanks
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+to Christoph Reinhart for pointing out the error.
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+Made internal change to tone-mapping library to use structure pointer
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+rather than stack, making code re-entrant and more up to modern standards.
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+Added -pd option to handle depth-of-field blur in rpict.  This requires
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+that the view directon (-vd option) include focal distance information,
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+which is now preserved by the various view file routines, and reported
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+by the vwright command.
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+Added DBLUR variable to ranimate and pmdblur script to handle simultaneous
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+motion and depth-of-field blurring.  Thanks to Visarc for funding this work.
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+Added setting of focus distance in rvu ("focus" command) and rholo
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+('f'/"frame" command).
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+Changed default remote shell in ranimate to "ssh" rather than "rsh",
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+which has been abandoned on most Unix systems due to security issues.
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+Fixed behavior of source primitive using illum with no alternate
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+material.  These now become transparent so one can see the sky or
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+light-probe background for use in image-based lighting.  Previously,
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+the user needed to specify the background glow as the alternate
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+material for a distant illum source to behave properly.  (This still
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+works.)
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+Fixed some minor problems and inconsistencies with 16-bit/channel
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+TIFF i/o in ra_tiff.
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+Created mksource program to generate distant sources for improved
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+image-based lighting with light probes.
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+Changed ambient calculation so that -ad will not limit recursion
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+depth, and a minimum of 27 samples will be sent out for each stored
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+ambient value, or 3 samples if -aa is 0 (caching off).
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+Added -oM option to rtrace to report material (rather than modifier)
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+for cases where actual material is aliased or further up modifier chain.
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+Rearranged the way ray contributions are computed so that it might be
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+possible to use rtrace to derive daylight coefficients and optical
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+transfer functions.  The new -oTW option of rtrace produces color
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+contribution weights for each ray, which combined with the -ti (or -tI)
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+option permits the contribution of selected surfaces or sources to
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+be determined.  Using the -oTW option, one should also specify
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+options "-dt 0 -aa 0 -as 0" for optimal results.  In particular,
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+one cannot expect reasonable tallies with -ab >= 1 and irradiance
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+caching on (-aa > 0).
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+The same code modifications included a change to the indirect computation
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+with caching switched off (-aa 0).  Whereas before, the number of secondary
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+rays after the first bounce were half of the previous generation, they are
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+now determined by the surface reflectance, making for a better and faster
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+calculation.  It should now be possible to compute many bounces with -aa 0,
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+which used to be prohibitively expensive.
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+Added -T option to xshowtrace to trace rays to light sources.
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+Added meta2bmp program to produce BMP files from metafile graphics.
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+Added cct_x(t) and cct_y(t) to src/cal/cal/blackbody.cal to interpolate
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+CIE chromaticities for particular black-body temperatures.
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+Increased maximum number of input pictures in pcomb and pcompos to 512.
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+Created rtcontrib program for computing ray contribution coefficients.
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+This tool may be used to do standard optical ray tracing or daylight
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+coefficient calculations for annual simulations, among other uses.
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+Added tilde ('~') output option as part of the -o* specification of
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+rtrace.  This permits ray trees to be parsed more easily in binary
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+output mode, as needed by rtcontrib.

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Revision 1.40 by greg, Wed Jun 9 16:00:13 2004 UTC vs.
Revision 1.76 by greg, Thu May 26 06:55:22 2005 UTC