| 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. | 
| 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 a nasty format in so many ways -- I don't yet support conversion | 
| 1267 | < | from compressed 8-bit or 4-bit modes, but may in the near future. | 
| 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. | 
| 1320 | > |  | 
| 1321 | > | Corrected the normalization of the Gaussian reflectance model.  This will | 
| 1322 | > | cause an increase in specularity for low-lying light sources. | 
| 1323 | > | Thanks to Don Walters of Boeing and Arne Duer of the Univ. of Innsbruck | 
| 1324 | > | for pointing out this error.  The square root used for the two cosines | 
| 1325 | > | in the denominator of the normalization factor should not be present. | 
| 1326 | > | This was a serious mistake I made in the original model, which went | 
| 1327 | > | undiscovered (at least to my knowledge) for over a decade.  I think | 
| 1328 | > | Bruce Walter of Cornell may have known about it, but I never heard | 
| 1329 | > | the details of his discovery. | 
| 1330 | > |  | 
| 1331 | > | Enabled the -p option for primary conversion without tone-mapping | 
| 1332 | > | in ra_bmp.  Also provides for XYZE input conversion to RGB. | 
| 1333 | > |  | 
| 1334 | > | Fixed what I consider a bug in pvalue -o when taking XYZE files on input, | 
| 1335 | > | where it was inappropriately undoing the exposure value so that it always | 
| 1336 | > | reported radiance rather than XYZ values with Y in cd/m^2. | 
| 1337 | > |  | 
| 1338 | > | Made it so ra_bmp only produces run-length encoded 8-bit output for | 
| 1339 | > | grayscale images that are tone-mapped.  This minimizes circumstances | 
| 1340 | > | under which output scanline order is reversed. |