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Revision 1.20 by greg, Wed Oct 1 22:07:19 2003 UTC vs.
Revision 1.47 by greg, Mon Sep 20 16:26:57 2004 UTC

# Line 1172 | Line 1172 | Added -N option to rad to start multiple rendering pro
1172   parallel.
1173  
1174   Fixed bug where mesh instances were not being freed, so subsequent calls
1175 < in programs like ranimate would refer to bogus data.
1175 > in programs like ranimove would refer to bogus data.
1176  
1177   Added support in normtiff for floating-point and 16-bit/sample TIFF input
1178   files.
# Line 1180 | Line 1180 | files.
1180   Changed marksources() routine (src/rt/source.c) to check all
1181   primitives in the modifier chain for emitting types, not only
1182   the first.  This permits sources to be described with intervening
1183 < modifiers before the light/illum/glow primitive.
1183 > modifiers before the light/illum/glow primitive and allows aliases
1184 > as well.
1185  
1186   Fixed bug in xform where it was neglecting to add transform arguments
1187   to new mesh primitive.
# Line 1190 | Line 1191 | doubles, respectively.
1191  
1192   Changed meta2tga to output correct colors.
1193  
1193 ****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
1194   Changed local coordinate index from 32-bits to 16-bits, which requires
1195 < that Radiance mesh files be recompiled.
1195 > that Radiance mesh files be recompiled.  (Later decided against this
1196 > change, as it caused problems with some models.)
1197  
1198   Changed integer tone-mapping routines to better deal with images
1199   containing large, constant regions.
# Line 1214 | Line 1215 | when it was given too many modifiers.
1215  
1216   Fixed problem with rpict where it was drawing illum sources badly
1217   even when they weren't all that small in the view.
1218 +
1219 + Added in(i) function to rcalc for more flexible channel evaluation.
1220 +
1221 + Replaced all calls to vfork() with regular fork() calls.
1222 +
1223 + Fixed bug in glarendx for dgr calculation with sources behind view.
1224 +
1225 + Added -p option to histo to print percentages/percentiles r.t. counts.
1226 +
1227 + Added a source occluder cache to accelerate shadow testing.  This
1228 + can save up to 50% of the calculation time in scenes with many
1229 + light sources, especially ones containing large occluders.  This
1230 + optimization may be tuned or switched off with the -DSHADCACHE=N
1231 + compile switch, where N is the resolution of the shadow cache, or
1232 + 0 to disable it.  Since this is purely a time vs. memory trade-off,
1233 + I decided not to make it a new command-line option.  (We already
1234 + have plenty.)
1235 +
1236 + ****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
1237 + Changed the following command names to avoid conflicts:
1238 +        rview -> rvu (with symbolic link back to rview)
1239 +        calc -> icalc
1240 +        lam -> rlam
1241 +        gencat -> gencatenary
1242 +
1243 + Improved -f option of normpat, which caused odd color changes before.
1244 +
1245 + Created pgblur script which does fast Gaussian blur of image without changing
1246 + its dimensions.  This is very useful in certain types of image processing
1247 + calculations, such as finding or removing low frequencies.
1248 +
1249 + ****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
1250 + Changed little-used objpict script so that it takes scene files rather than
1251 + rpict options on the command line, and puts everything into the right
1252 + coordinate position automatically rather than requiring the user to do it.
1253 +
1254 + Added -I option to replmarks for mesh instancing.
1255 +
1256 + Made similar change for virtual sources to allow modifiers and aliases
1257 + on the mirror and prism types to work properly.
1258 +
1259 + Rob Guglielmetti dded -lw and -lh options to falsecolor to control the
1260 + legend dimensions.  Made it so -lw 0 and/or -lh 0 turns legend off.
1261 +
1262 + Made it so pcompos will read everything from a stream even if it doesn't
1263 + need it, so input commands will not receive a hangup signal.
1264 +
1265 + Wrote ra_bmp program to convert to and from Windows BMP files (finally).
1266 + It's the most horrible image format I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot.
1267 +
1268 + Increased -aa default value for all renderers (and also -ad and -as in
1269 + rview) at Schorsch's suggestion.  I think this undid my earlier decrease
1270 + of -aa last time, which I guess was ill-considered.
1271 +
1272 + Modified oconv to keep subdividing the octree if there are too many
1273 + objects in a voxel even when the -r resolution limit has been
1274 + reached.  This was not done before due to problems with recursion,
1275 + and still, it will only continue to 256 times the original -r limit.
1276 + If that isn't enough, then there's probably no hope, anyway.
1277 +
1278 + Added -l option to obj2mesh to search for material files in library
1279 + locations.
1280 +
1281 + Increased polygon vertex limit to 512 in obj2mesh and obj2rad and added
1282 + warning if this limit is exceeded.
1283 +
1284 + Added tone-mapping and monitor primary options to ra_bmp.  This gives
1285 + new functionality similar to normtiff and ximage.  It would be nice to
1286 + add this feature to the other ra_* programs as well...  someday.
1287 +
1288 + Fixed long-standing bug in reported pixel ordering out of certain
1289 + protate commands.
1290 +
1291 + Added -p option to rcalc for "passive mode" that transmits
1292 + unrecognized input -- useful for substituting data in the
1293 + middle of a stream.
1294 +
1295 + Fixed a very obscure bug in rpict that caused a dark horizontal
1296 + line in certain cylindrical projections due to improper drawing
1297 + of the sky dome source in rt/srcdraw.c.
1298 +
1299 + Fixed problems with effective ray lenths computed for dielectric
1300 + and BRTDfunc materials.  This was most evident in breakup of holodeck
1301 + views when VDISTANCE=True.
1302 +
1303 + Fixed rad so that 'scene' variable may consist only of inline commands.
1304 +
1305 + Fixed bug introduced in shadow caching routines where sources in the
1306 + middle of spheres were not illuminating properly.  Thanks to Guilio
1307 + Antonutto for spotting this problem.
1308 +
1309 + Modified gensky behavior so if time is given with standard time zone
1310 + designation, any -m option is ignored.
1311 +
1312 + Added -n option to mkillum for (shared memory) parallel processing.
1313 +
1314 + Fixed a long-standing bug in parallel processing code that only
1315 + seemed to manifest with the new mkillum -n option, where rtrace
1316 + would deadlock upon termination.  The reason it never showed up
1317 + before is because I always closed processes in the reverse order
1318 + of opening them in other programs.  I went through and found similar
1319 + (potential) bugs in the rview device subprocess code and util/netproc.c.

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