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Revision 1.116 by greg, Tue Feb 28 03:44:54 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.147 by greg, Fri Apr 18 18:06:29 2008 UTC

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1565   just ray coefficients.
1566  
1567   Fixed bug in ranimate that caused it to fail in continuation of renderings.
1568 +
1569 + Renamed librt.a to librtrad.a, to avoid conflict on Solaris. Almost
1570 + everything now gets linked to -lrtrad instead of -lrt.
1571 +
1572 + Fixed problem with large sample sets, so -u+ option now is truly random.
1573 + Thanks to Rick Mistrick and Younju Yoon for identifying this problem,
1574 + which was related to a poorly designed hash function.
1575 +
1576 + Changed -u+ to be the default setting in rtrace (only).
1577 +
1578 + Fixed binary i/o for rlam and vwrays under Windows.
1579 +
1580 + Added tmCvLums() to tone-mapping routines using a 16-bit lookup table
1581 + on IEEE floats, which is also used to improve speed of COLOR conversions,
1582 + especially on machines with slow log() calls.  The first call to
1583 + tmCvLums(), tmCvGrays(), or tmCvColors() initializes the table.
1584 +
1585 + Created optics2rad.csh script to convert from Optics 5 material output
1586 + to something correct for Radiance.  Built on old glazing.cal function,
1587 + which is actually incorrect so removed from the distribution.
1588 +
1589 + Fixed nuisance bug in ximage under some SGI machines that caused it to
1590 + choose an inappropriate visual and display incorrect colors.  (Thanks
1591 + to Oskar Itzinger for debugging the problem.)
1592 +
1593 + Fixed long-standing inaccuracy of pcompos -t and +t thresholding options.
1594 +
1595 + Fixed bug in handling of views with tabs rather than spaces.
1596 +
1597 + Fixed bug related to alias of alias.
1598 +
1599 + ****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
1600 + Changed default sky turbidity in gensky from the original default of
1601 + 2.75 to the CIE 110-1994 standard value of 2.45.  Thanks to Marilyne
1602 + Anderson of MIT for pointing out this discrepancy.
1603 +
1604 + Added -o option to ra_xyze to produce original pixel values.
1605 +
1606 + Fixed bug in tracing of virtual sources, where intervening glazing was
1607 + not being accounted for properly.
1608 +
1609 + Added -h option to pcompos and pcomb to eliminate verbose headers.
1610 +
1611 + =====================
1612 + Version 3.9
1613 +
1614 + Added -spec option to falsecolor to restore original spectral color scale.
1615 + Also added "-s auto" option to automatically set the maximum value.
1616 +
1617 + Added byte-swapping input and output to rcalc.
1618 +
1619 + Additional error-checking for source surfaces.
1620 +
1621 + Re-fixed bug in octree code that caused it to allocate 8 times as
1622 + much memory as it actually used(!) -- this was pointed out way back
1623 + in 1999 by Erik Reinhard and Erik Jansen, but the fix they gave me
1624 + got lost in the slightly broken release process at the time.  This
1625 + should make a big difference in memory usage, especially for the
1626 + new mesh primitive.  (I measured 30% less memory usage.)
1627 +
1628 + Corrected ray weights for material mixtures.
1629 +
1630 + Reduced the default -n setting for obj2mesh to take better advantage
1631 + of the smaller octree structure size.
1632 +
1633 + Fixed bug in shadow cache where it was adding surfaces with antimatter
1634 + holes cut in them to the obstructor list.  Thanks to John Mardaljevic
1635 + for discovering and reporting the problem.
1636 +
1637 + Adding ability in mkillum to incorporate BSDF data in calculation.
1638 + Internal interface (raypcalls) now used in place of rtrace process(es).
1639 +
1640 + Fixed pixel alignment in pcomb for size reduction and enlargement.
1641 +
1642 + Allow rtcontrib user to set -P and -PP options for persistent rendering.
1643 + The only caveat is that -n setting > 1 requires -PP rather than -P.
1644 +
1645 + Added -c option to rtcontrib to facilitate cumulative calculations.
1646 +
1647 + Added ability to incorporate LBNL Window 6 bidirectional scattering
1648 + distribution function (BSDF) data in mkillum.
1649 +
1650 + ****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
1651 + Fixed long-standing bug in source.cal, which caused it to produce
1652 + reversed anisotropic photometric distributions due to the
1653 + misorientation of the y-axis.  Thanks to Zack Rogers for discovering
1654 + and helping debug this problem.
1655 +
1656 + Fixed long-standing bug in replmarks, where triangles with X-side
1657 + aligned with Z-axis would cause incorrect rotations.  Thanks to
1658 + Zack Rogers for finding this error.
1659 +
1660 + Added rsensor program to compute sensor signal for daylighting controls.
1661 + Funding for this component was provided by the Architectural Energy
1662 + Corporation in Boulder, CO, and directed by Zack Rogers.
1663 +
1664 + Added "planisphere" (stereographic) fisheye view type for traditional
1665 + daylighting analysis.  Feature requested & explained by Axel Jacobs.
1666 +
1667 + Modified -c option to rtcontrib so it can take a number of input
1668 + rays to average over, rather than only produce a single accumulated
1669 + record (which can now be done with -c 0).

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