--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2004/09/20 16:26:57 1.47 +++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2004/10/04 22:32:58 1.52 @@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ Added -I option to replmarks for mesh instancing. Made similar change for virtual sources to allow modifiers and aliases on the mirror and prism types to work properly. -Rob Guglielmetti dded -lw and -lh options to falsecolor to control the +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 @@ -1296,7 +1296,7 @@ Fixed a very obscure bug in rpict that caused a dark h line in certain cylindrical projections due to improper drawing of the sky dome source in rt/srcdraw.c. -Fixed problems with effective ray lenths computed for dielectric +Fixed problems with effective ray lengths computed for dielectric and BRTDfunc materials. This was most evident in breakup of holodeck views when VDISTANCE=True. @@ -1317,3 +1317,24 @@ would deadlock upon termination. The reason it never before is because I always closed processes in the reverse order of opening them in other programs. I went through and found similar (potential) bugs in the rview device subprocess code and util/netproc.c. + +Corrected the normalization of the Gaussian reflectance model. This will +cause an increase in specularity for low-lying light sources. +Thanks to Don Walters of Boeing and Arne Duer of the Univ. of Innsbruck +for pointing out this error. The square root used for the two cosines +in the denominator of the normalization factor should not be present. +This was a serious mistake I made in the original model, which went +undiscovered (at least to my knowledge) for over a decade. I think +Bruce Walter of Cornell may have known about it, but I never heard +the details of his discovery. + +Enabled the -p option for primary conversion without tone-mapping +in ra_bmp. Also provides for XYZE input conversion to RGB. + +Fixed what I consider a bug in pvalue -o when taking XYZE files on input, +where it was inappropriately undoing the exposure value so that it always +reported radiance rather than XYZ values with Y in cd/m^2. + +Made it so ra_bmp only produces run-length encoded 8-bit output for +grayscale images that are tone-mapped. This minimizes circumstances +under which output scanline order is reversed.