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Revision 1.67 by greg, Tue Mar 22 04:51:56 2005 UTC vs.
Revision 1.113 by greg, Wed Dec 28 19:42:13 2005 UTC

+Fixed bug that caused incorrect reporting of non-surface in set when
+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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+Fixed inaccuracy in calculation of diffuse transmission in the presence
+of pure specular (Fresnel reflection) using "trans" material.  Thanks
+to Christoph Reinhart for pointing out the error.
+Fixed some minor problems and inconsistencies with 16-bit/channel
+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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+Implemented Russian roulette ray termination with -lr <= 0.
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+Made -lr -10 the default in rtcontrib.
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+Made rtcontrib -f option search RAYPATH directories.
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+Made it so -o option of rtcontrib can pipe -o output to a command.
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+Added -if and -of options to total for binary i/o (following rcalc mold).
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+Switched default options in rtrace to use Russian roulette.  (Rpict and rvu
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+still use biased ray termination.)
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+Added rtcontrib -r option to recover partial output.
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+Added -u rendering option for pure Monte Carlo sampling.
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+(Got rid of -DMC compile option, which this makes superfluous.)
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+Changed -t option of rlam to accept strings as well as single characters.
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+Fixed bug in rcalc with -l option where it would sometimes go into an
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+infinite loop.
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+Fixed truly ancient bug in bounding box computation for cones, which
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+could (and did) cause missing segments.
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+Added -z option to normtiff to output LZW-compressed files.
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+Last change to total causes it to produce results when it sees an empty
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+line on the input.  This was not intentional, but I decided I like this
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+behavior so I documented it rather than changing it.
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+=====================
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+Version 3.8
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+Fixed Russian roulette ray termination, which was doing the opposite of
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+what it should have been doing, resulting in overestimated values below
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+minimum ray sampling weight (serious).
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+Changed mksource to use 98th percentile (rather than 99th) for threshold.
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+(Above changes included in 3.7.1 patch release.)
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+Eliminated writing of EXPOSURE= line in ra_tiff -r when source TIFF
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+does not have STONITS set.
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+Fixed bug in ambient calculation that caused black values for multiple
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+bounces in some scenes.  Thanks to Mark Stock for creating and sharing
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+the sophisticated test scene that demonstrated this problem.
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+Fixed bug in antimatter using Russian Roulette sampling.
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+(Above changes included in 3.7.2 patch release 22 Aug 2005.)
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+Created fieldcomb script to combine alternate fields in a rendering
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+sequence.  (Development generously sponsored by Iebele Abel.)
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+Added missing preload of mesh objects for more efficient memory use
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+during parallel rendering -- this was a serious oversight.
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+Created ran2tiff program to automate exposure setting of animation
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+sequences using a moving histogram in combination with pcond, and
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+converting frames to TIFF.
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+Eliminated SPEED macro from makeall and source tree.
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+Added -pj option to vwrays to allow jittering of sample locations.
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+Fixed bug in rtcontrib where it occasionally missed writing the
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+final bin file.  (Pretty serious, actually.)
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+Added -Dfseeko=fseek to MACH= line for linux, as fseeko(3) seems to be
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+broken in current versions of Linux.  (Need to remove this later.)
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+Rearranged struct's for better efficiency on 64-bit architectures.
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+Added -i option to rlam so it works with binary input formats.
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+Added rtcontrib -bn option to specify number of bins and fixed bug
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+in recovery of files containing multiple values per record.
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+Added rtcontrib -fo option to write over existing files, which it now
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+refuses to do without this option.
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+Made rtcontrib flush output when handed a zero-length ray vector,
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+to match behavior of rtrace.
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+Improved color scale for falsecolor output.
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+Added threshold test for Fresnel approximation to prevent its use
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+on smooth surfaces with unrealistically low specularities (less than 1.8%).
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+Water has a specular reflectance of 2.1% at room temperture.
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+Removed NICE macro settings in rpict and rtrace, which was slowing down
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+the processes under Mac OS X (10.4) by about 60% due to processor napping.
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+Made xform, replmarks and rad2mgf handle quoted modifiers and names properly.
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+Fixed problem in genblinds, where it was generating slats that were too
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+wide with the +/-r option.  (Thanks to Helena Buelow-Huebe for discovering
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+this bug.)

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Revision 1.67 by greg, Tue Mar 22 04:51:56 2005 UTC vs.
Revision 1.113 by greg, Wed Dec 28 19:42:13 2005 UTC