| 2058 |  | discovered by Rob G. | 
| 2059 |  |  | 
| 2060 |  | ================================= | 
| 2061 | < | Version 5.1 | 
| 2061 | > | Version 5.1 (Released 8/17/2017) | 
| 2062 |  |  | 
| 2063 |  | Fixed issue with vchars.mta and symbols.mta not being installed in | 
| 2064 |  | the appropriate metafile library location, with help from Rob G. | 
| 2146 |  | Added ability to perform shadow-testing through unproxied BSDFs with strong | 
| 2147 |  | through (direct-direct) component. | 
| 2148 |  |  | 
| 2149 | < | Added {+|-}a options to genBSDF and bsdf2ttree for switching off reciprocity averaging. | 
| 2149 | > | Added {+|-}a options to genBSDF and bsdf2ttree for switching off reciprocity | 
| 2150 | > | averaging. | 
| 2151 | > |  | 
| 2152 | > | Added bias to see through BTDFs with a strong "through" component | 
| 2153 | > | rather than scattering view rays.  This is in lieu of peak extraction, | 
| 2154 | > | which looked to be too difficult from an implementation standpoint. | 
| 2155 | > |  | 
| 2156 | > | Added bsdfview tool analogous to objview but for BSDF files (XML and SIR), | 
| 2157 | > | which calls bsdf2rad then rad with a few useful default views. | 
| 2158 | > |  | 
| 2159 | > | ========================= | 
| 2160 | > | Version 5.2 (Release October 8, 2018) | 
| 2161 | > |  | 
| 2162 | > | Created psketch program to apply non-photorealistic rendering to selected | 
| 2163 | > | objects, identified by modifier name(s). | 
| 2164 | > |  | 
| 2165 | > | Added '*' and '/' operations to rmtxop for element-wise multiplication and | 
| 2166 | > | division of same-sized matrices. | 
| 2167 | > |  | 
| 2168 | > | Changed falsecolor so "-s" option is adjusted to match legend if one. | 
| 2169 | > |  | 
| 2170 | > | Falsecolor legend changes and improvements by David G-M and Stephen W. | 
| 2171 | > |  | 
| 2172 | > | Fixed bug in peak extraction code that generated | 
| 2173 | > | "Bad call to SDqueryTreProjSA" error, reported by Lars Grobe. | 
| 2174 | > |  | 
| 2175 | > | Increased maximum luminance to 10^7 in pcond to fix issue noticed | 
| 2176 | > | by Axel Jacobs where veiling glare not added for the sun under | 
| 2177 | > | some conditions. | 
| 2178 | > |  | 
| 2179 | > | Increased maximum number of open files in rcontrib to the system upper | 
| 2180 | > | limit of 2048 rather than the default 512 under Windows. | 
| 2181 | > |  | 
| 2182 | > | Added top-level resources directory with files from Rob Guglielmetti. | 
| 2183 | > |  | 
| 2184 | > | Improved accuracy for peaky BSDFs and small light sources. | 
| 2185 | > |  | 
| 2186 | > | Fixed issue with pmapdump noted by Axel Jacobs. | 
| 2187 | > |  | 
| 2188 | > | Improved accuracy of bsdf2ttree when converting scattering interpolation | 
| 2189 | > | representatons with strong peaks. | 
| 2190 | > |  | 
| 2191 | > | Tweaked peak-extraction code to work more reliably. | 
| 2192 | > |  | 
| 2193 | > | Georg Mischler updated SCons build system. | 
| 2194 | > |  | 
| 2195 | > | Rob Guglielmetti and Alex Swindler updated CMake build system. | 
| 2196 | > |  | 
| 2197 | > | Modified pcomb so the first view seen in the inputs is written into header. | 
| 2198 | > |  | 
| 2199 | > | Wrote rtpict script to run rtrace in parallel mode and simulate rpict with | 
| 2200 | > | -n option. | 
| 2201 | > |  | 
| 2202 | > | Added ability to move forwards/backwards specified distance in rvu "origin" | 
| 2203 | > | command.  Feature requested by John Mardaljevic, who essentially owns this | 
| 2204 | > | command, now. | 
| 2205 | > |  | 
| 2206 | > | Reduced bias in ambient super-sampling method. | 
| 2207 | > |  | 
| 2208 | > | Fixed bugs associated with zero transmission in chromatic tensor trees. | 
| 2209 | > | Thanks to Lars Grobe for pointing out issues. | 
| 2210 | > |  | 
| 2211 | > | Added RAYPATH searching for -f options to genrev, gensurf, genworm, | 
| 2212 | > | bsdf2klems, bsdf2ttree, and pcomb.  This makes behavior consistent | 
| 2213 | > | with rcalc, calc, and rendering tools. | 
| 2214 | > |  | 
| 2215 | > | Worked with Randolph Fritz to fix some issues with ies2rad and newer | 
| 2216 | > | IESNA63 standards. | 
| 2217 | > |  | 
| 2218 | > | Resurrected original bsdf2rad test program, renaming it bsdf2rado. Still an | 
| 2219 | > | optional build in src/cv/. | 
| 2220 | > |  | 
| 2221 | > | Fixed bug in rcontrib with virtual sources, where pretest was adding | 
| 2222 | > | to modifier accumulation buffers.  Reported by Mostapha. | 
| 2223 | > |  | 
| 2224 | > | Added an "aBSDF" material type that explicitly checks for peak extraction. | 
| 2225 | > | Its arguments are the same as the original "BSDF" type, but without the | 
| 2226 | > | thickness parameter, as proxy geometry is not supported by this new type. | 
| 2227 | > | The old "BSDF" type no longer does peak extraction under any circumstances, | 
| 2228 | > | since this behavior is superfluous for proxied geometry. | 
| 2229 | > |  | 
| 2230 | > | Added -r option to bsdf2rad (and bsdfview) to fix BSDF min and max range | 
| 2231 | > | for comparing BSDFs. | 
| 2232 | > |  | 
| 2233 | > | Fixed issue with pfilt -m option and uneven image size changes pointed | 
| 2234 | > | out by Rob Shakespeare. | 
| 2235 | > |  | 
| 2236 | > | Updates to evalglare and gendaylit from Jan Wienold, including new | 
| 2237 | > | colored sky option. | 
| 2238 | > |  | 
| 2239 | > | ========================= | 
| 2240 | > | Version 5.3 (Released September 1, 2020) | 
| 2241 | > |  | 
| 2242 | > | Created radcompare program to compare Radiance tool output to reference outputs | 
| 2243 | > | during unit-testing. | 
| 2244 | > |  | 
| 2245 | > | Fixed issue reading very large files (> 2 GBytes) in rcollate. | 
| 2246 | > |  | 
| 2247 | > | Made picking function in rvu ignore transparent and void surfaces. | 
| 2248 | > |  | 
| 2249 | > | Added -orRxX options to rtrace to enable output of mirrored and unmirrored | 
| 2250 | > | contributions and distances to enable new types of reprojections.  This also | 
| 2251 | > | cleaned up and unified handling of effective ray lengths throughout code. | 
| 2252 | > |  | 
| 2253 | > | Bug fixes from Jan Wienold for evalglare. | 
| 2254 | > |  | 
| 2255 | > | Changed indexed (numbered) output from dctimestep to start from 0 rather | 
| 2256 | > | than 1, to make it more consistent with expected input naming. | 
| 2257 | > |  | 
| 2258 | > | Increased default sampling in bsdf2klems (-n option) to 1024. | 
| 2259 | > |  | 
| 2260 | > | Fixed an issue noticed by David G-M that was causing genBSDF to bias | 
| 2261 | > | isotropic tensor tree samples resulting in subsequent failure of | 
| 2262 | > | peak extraction with "aBSDF" type. | 
| 2263 | > |  | 
| 2264 | > | Introduced max() and min() functions to .cal library. | 
| 2265 | > |  | 
| 2266 | > | Added random incident patch sampling to bsdf2klems to improve accuracy | 
| 2267 | > | with scattering interpolation representation input (e.g., from | 
| 2268 | > | pabopto2bsdf).  The other input types already sampled incident patch area. | 
| 2269 | > |  | 
| 2270 | > | Added gendaymtx -A option to compute average sky over all the input | 
| 2271 | > | time steps. | 
| 2272 | > |  | 
| 2273 | > | Added ability to output color image from rtrace with any of -ovrx options. | 
| 2274 | > | Also fixed inconsistency of -oN output when ray casting versus full trace. | 
| 2275 | > | Before, it would flip normal to front side unless ray casting.  Now, -oN | 
| 2276 | > | always reports the unflipped normal. | 
| 2277 | > |  | 
| 2278 | > | Changed rlam behavior so -iaN reads N lines from a stream rather than N | 
| 2279 | > | characters.  This seems more useful, since -ibN is somewhat redundant with | 
| 2280 | > | the old behavior. | 
| 2281 | > |  | 
| 2282 | > | Created rsplit program as compliment to rlam and to handle more complex | 
| 2283 | > | rtrace output into separate files or streams. | 
| 2284 | > |  | 
| 2285 | > | Improved getinfo so that it can also hop over resolution string with -c | 
| 2286 | > | and header elide mode.  Use +d to include resolution string in output, | 
| 2287 | > | and -d to elide with - and -c options. | 
| 2288 | > |  | 
| 2289 | > | Made pvalue -u option mean "uncompressed" with -r.  Also, allow skipping | 
| 2290 | > | bytes on standard input. | 
| 2291 | > |  | 
| 2292 | > | Created rcode_depth tool to convert to and from a 16-bit/pixel portable | 
| 2293 | > | depth image encoding that uses a mix of linear and reciprocal distance | 
| 2294 | > | with explicit representations of 0 and infinity.  Code for loading these | 
| 2295 | > | depth maps is in src/common/depthcodec.{h,c}. | 
| 2296 | > |  | 
| 2297 | > | Created rcode_norm tool to convert to and from 32-bit/pixel portable | 
| 2298 | > | surface normal representation, matching the one in src/common/dircode.c. | 
| 2299 | > | Code for loading normal maps is in src/common/normcodec.{h,c}. | 
| 2300 | > |  | 
| 2301 | > | Created rcode_ident tool to create indexed identifier files. | 
| 2302 | > | Code for loading these files is in src/common/idmap.{h,c}. | 
| 2303 | > |  | 
| 2304 | > | Added -o* option to rtpict to produce layered images that handle most | 
| 2305 | > | output types from rtrace (colors, surface normals, distances, IDs). | 
| 2306 | > |  | 
| 2307 | > | Created rcode2bmp script to create images from new rcode_* output maps. | 
| 2308 | > |  | 
| 2309 | > | Improved efficiency of rmtxop in cases where matrix multiplication is | 
| 2310 | > | faster evaluated right-to-left, as when the final component is a | 
| 2311 | > | column vector.  Also added ability to apply trailing unary operators | 
| 2312 | > | (-t, and -s or -c) to resulting matrix. | 
| 2313 | > |  | 
| 2314 | > | Added new depth, normal, and ID file types to radcompare. | 
| 2315 | > |  | 
| 2316 | > | Added BigEndian= header line for automatic byte-swapping in rmtxop | 
| 2317 | > | and radcompare. | 
| 2318 | > |  | 
| 2319 | > | Added new "turbo" palette to falsecolor (thanks to Taoning). | 
| 2320 | > |  | 
| 2321 | > | Nathaniel Jones created the "dcglare" program for annual glare | 
| 2322 | > | simulations when the sun and sky are visible through the window. | 
| 2323 | > | Tutorial is posted at | 
| 2324 | > | "https://github.com/nljones/Accelerad/wiki/The-Imageless-Method-for-Spatial-and-Annual-Glare-Analysis". | 
| 2325 | > |  | 
| 2326 | > | Added support for loading RGBE images into matrices in dctimestep. | 
| 2327 | > |  | 
| 2328 | > | Added -y option to gensky and gendaylit to support more accurate Michalsky | 
| 2329 | > | solar position calculation. | 
| 2330 | > |  | 
| 2331 | > | Changed rsplit, so specifying a space as the separator parses words | 
| 2332 | > | between whitespace. | 
| 2333 | > |  | 
| 2334 | > | Added ability of vwrays, pinterp, and pmblur2 to read encoded depth files. | 
| 2335 | > |  | 
| 2336 | > | Added -o RxCxR1xC1 facility to perform blocking in rcollate. | 
| 2337 | > |  | 
| 2338 | > | Made it so number of segments in genworm, genrev, and gensurf can be | 
| 2339 | > | given as expressions of previously defined variables, etc. | 
| 2340 | > |  | 
| 2341 | > | Added -D and -n option to gendaymtx to output sun description and skip | 
| 2342 | > | matrix output on request.  A -M option was also added to output solar | 
| 2343 | > | modifiers for rcontrib.  Support also added for leap days in WEA input. | 
| 2344 | > | Enhancements sponsored by Ladybug Tools. | 
| 2345 | > |  | 
| 2346 | > | Updated eplus_uvf to work with IDF version 9.x, checking version number. | 
| 2347 | > |  | 
| 2348 | > | Fix to glarendx issues with dgi calculation. | 
| 2349 | > |  | 
| 2350 | > | Made it so rmtxop and dctimestep undo any exposure applied to Radiance | 
| 2351 | > | pictures they may load. | 
| 2352 | > |  | 
| 2353 | > | Added robjutil utility to manipulate Wavefront .OBJ files. | 
| 2354 | > |  | 
| 2355 | > | Fixed a crash related to rtrace -om or -oM with mesh instances containing | 
| 2356 | > | materials. | 
| 2357 | > |  | 
| 2358 | > | Improved rtrace flushing function to handle any value for -x without | 
| 2359 | > | deadlock on controlling process. | 
| 2360 | > |  | 
| 2361 | > | Eliminated unnecessary start-up procedures for rtrace when only ray-casting | 
| 2362 | > | is needed (i.e., no tracing or value output). | 
| 2363 | > |  | 
| 2364 | > | Improved isotropic sampling method in bsdf2ttree using "zipper" approach | 
| 2365 | > | applied in genBSDF. | 
| 2366 | > |  | 
| 2367 | > | Added limit to memory used by high-resolution tensor tree BSDFs for | 
| 2368 | > | cumulative cache during MC sampling (rendering).  Limit set to 250MBytes | 
| 2369 | > | per BSDF for standard architectures. | 
| 2370 | > |  | 
| 2371 | > | Added -n and -s options to bsdf2ttree to provide some user control | 
| 2372 | > | over super-sampling. | 
| 2373 | > |  | 
| 2374 | > | Improved surface normal codec used by ambient file to store orthonormal | 
| 2375 | > | directions exactly. | 
| 2376 | > |  | 
| 2377 | > | Improved peak extraction method, which was undervaluing transmission | 
| 2378 | > | in many cases. | 
| 2379 | > |  | 
| 2380 | > | New version of evalglare from Jan Wienold. | 
| 2381 | > |  | 
| 2382 | > | Added -u option to gendaymtx to elide data columns (time steps) when | 
| 2383 | > | the sun is not visible above the horizon. | 
| 2384 | > |  | 
| 2385 | > | ========================= | 
| 2386 | > | Version 5.4 | 
| 2387 | > |  | 
| 2388 | > | Added rcollate -c option to force operation to continue even if it | 
| 2389 | > | seems unnecessary.  Made tool more robust. | 
| 2390 | > |  | 
| 2391 | > | Added -t option to rcontrib (and rfluxmtx) to report progress after the | 
| 2392 | > | given number of seconds. | 
| 2393 | > |  | 
| 2394 | > | Added "test" target to makeall to run unit tests. | 
| 2395 | > |  | 
| 2396 | > | Modified bsdf2ttree to allow different parameters per input SIR file. | 
| 2397 | > |  | 
| 2398 | > | Fixed issues with very large matrix files (> 2GB) in dctimestep, rmtxop, | 
| 2399 | > | and rcollate. | 
| 2400 | > |  | 
| 2401 | > | Added -rf and -rb options to rmtxop to load front or back reflectance | 
| 2402 | > | matrix data from XML file rather than transmission.  (Lars Grobe suggested.) | 
| 2403 | > |  | 
| 2404 | > | Improved behavior for coincident surfaces with different materials. | 
| 2405 | > | Rather than returning one surface or the other based on floating-point | 
| 2406 | > | vagaries, opaque materials are now preferred over transparent ones. | 
| 2407 | > | If the materials are both transparent or both opaque, then whichever | 
| 2408 | > | surface appeared later in the scene description will be selected. | 
| 2409 | > | This came of a request for consistent behavior with legal CAD output | 
| 2410 | > | from Peter Apian-Bennewitz. | 
| 2411 | > |  | 
| 2412 | > | Added explicit tests for on-edge intersections with polygons.  This should | 
| 2413 | > | eliminate stray rays and tiny light leaks that often appear even in | 
| 2414 | > | well-constructed geometry. | 
| 2415 | > |  | 
| 2416 | > | Added "-s up" option to pabopto2bsdf to allow for 180 degree symmetry, | 
| 2417 | > | meaning that data repeats after 180 degree rotation (as distinguished | 
| 2418 | > | from "-s bilateral" whose data is mirrored about a vertical plane). | 
| 2419 | > | Thanks to Helen Rose Wilson for the suggestion and informing me that | 
| 2420 | > | such a thing exists. | 
| 2421 | > |  | 
| 2422 | > | Removed upper limit on number of modifiers in rcontrib. | 
| 2423 | > |  | 
| 2424 | > | Put cap on maximum ambient gradient to avoid over-extrapolation of | 
| 2425 | > | poorly computed irradiance cache values. | 
| 2426 | > |  | 
| 2427 | > | Added robjutil +T option to triangulate all faces in .OBJ description. | 
| 2428 | > |  | 
| 2429 | > | Altered BSDF library to have both front and back diffuse transmittance | 
| 2430 | > | values, which can be different.  This was necessary to avoid issues | 
| 2431 | > | caused by measurement and modeling discrepancies. | 
| 2432 | > |  | 
| 2433 | > | Added pabopto2bsdf -g option to cull near-grazing scattering to avoid | 
| 2434 | > | issues with noise and negative values. | 
| 2435 | > |  | 
| 2436 | > | Increased default dynamic range from 32 to 100 in pcond and normtiff. | 
| 2437 | > |  | 
| 2438 | > | Added -o and -n options to genbox to create .OBJ output and segment | 
| 2439 | > | edges and corners for transparent materials.  Also added -s option | 
| 2440 | > | to control smoothing for .OBJ and Radiance with segmented rounding. | 
| 2441 | > |  | 
| 2442 | > | Made it so robjutil with the +r option for Radiance output now | 
| 2443 | > | produces normal smoothing unless normals are removed with -n. | 
| 2444 | > |  | 
| 2445 | > | Added exposure preservation to pcompos when possible (i.e., when | 
| 2446 | > | there is only one input or inputs agree on exposure). | 
| 2447 | > |  | 
| 2448 | > | Added -DSHARP_RGB compile-time option to use sharp RGB color space | 
| 2449 | > | rather than historic default.  This can make for more accurate color | 
| 2450 | > | calculations, but requires that materials be recalibrated.  The | 
| 2451 | > | PRIMARIES= line is also produced on output from rpict or rvu with | 
| 2452 | > | the correct set of primaries based on how the system was compiled. | 
| 2453 | > |  | 
| 2454 | > | Added automatic flushing to the output of total, except when the -r | 
| 2455 | > | (running subtotals) option is used. | 
| 2456 | > |  | 
| 2457 | > | Improved behavior of little-used -aw option, so that it avoids sea-level | 
| 2458 | > | rise caused by adding its own estimate back into the ambient level remainder. | 
| 2459 | > | It ended up being simple enough to derate the final average by the factor | 
| 2460 | > | corresponding to average surface absorpition, thus removing the average | 
| 2461 | > | from the final bounce estimate. | 
| 2462 | > |  | 
| 2463 | > | Introduced ies2rad upgrades by Randolph Fritz.  Randolph says it | 
| 2464 | > | fixes the following problems: | 
| 2465 | > |  | 
| 2466 | > | 1. Generates correct Radiance geometry for spheres in 1995, 2002, | 
| 2467 | > | and 2019 IES files. | 
| 2468 | > |  | 
| 2469 | > | 2. Generates correct Radiance geometry for vertical cylinders that | 
| 2470 | > | are taller than they are wide. | 
| 2471 | > |  | 
| 2472 | > | 3. Ignores the file source ("File Generation Type") field in the | 
| 2473 | > | 2019 version of the file, which would otherwise be incorrectly used | 
| 2474 | > | as an output multiplier. | 
| 2475 | > |  | 
| 2476 | > | It also offers the following enhancements: | 
| 2477 | > |  | 
| 2478 | > | 1. Shape information is included in the .rad file comments. | 
| 2479 | > |  | 
| 2480 | > | 2. 1995, 2002, and 2019-version luminous opening geometry is | 
| 2481 | > | accounted for. | 
| 2482 | > |  | 
| 2483 | > | 3. The 2002 and 2019 IES file versions are recognized and | 
| 2484 | > | processed appropriately. | 
| 2485 | > |  | 
| 2486 | > | 4. I have made an attempt to do something intelligent with less | 
| 2487 | > | common "luminous opening" shapes in the 1995, 2002, and 2019 versions | 
| 2488 | > | of the standard, though I have not implemented any support for new | 
| 2489 | > | geometry; approximations are substituted and warning messages issued. | 
| 2490 | > | Unfortunately, this code is not tested, since I don't have any IES | 
| 2491 | > | files that use these shapes. | 
| 2492 | > |  | 
| 2493 | > | Added support for depth-of-field blurring in vwrays using -pd option. | 
| 2494 | > | Also, made -c count work with vwrays -i, producing multiple samples | 
| 2495 | > | per indicated pixel position.  At the same time, support for the -pd | 
| 2496 | > | option was added to rtpict, which calls on vwrays for its samples. | 
| 2497 | > |  | 
| 2498 | > | Fixed issue with BSDFs that didn't obey reciprocity, where direct | 
| 2499 | > | sampling wasn't following exactly with indirect sampling.  This was | 
| 2500 | > | discovered and reported by Jon Sargent. | 
| 2501 | > |  | 
| 2502 | > | Created checkBSDF tool to test XML BSDF reciprocity and perform similar | 
| 2503 | > | sanity checks. | 
| 2504 | > |  | 
| 2505 | > | Added -O option to pvalue and pextrem to report watts/sr/m^2 even if | 
| 2506 | > | picture is XYZE. | 
| 2507 | > |  | 
| 2508 | > | Made subtle changes to header i/o routines to preserve alignment in | 
| 2509 | > | binary file formats to enable memory-mapping.  Implemented memory-mapped | 
| 2510 | > | matrix loading in rmtxop for binary double files. | 
| 2511 | > |  | 
| 2512 | > | Removed ambient value sorting, which was written when ambient caches | 
| 2513 | > | could overwhelm available memory.  This is rarely the case these days, | 
| 2514 | > | and the added code complexity and updating of cache values with LRU | 
| 2515 | > | counts dirties pages that would otherwise remain clean, so it was | 
| 2516 | > | often a loss even when VM was an issue. | 
| 2517 | > |  | 
| 2518 | > | Added iso2klems script to compute a Klems BSDF based on specular | 
| 2519 | > | and diffuse measurements as a function of incident angle. | 
| 2520 | > |  | 
| 2521 | > | Fixed issue with over-counting diffuse component during aBSDF | 
| 2522 | > | peak extraction. | 
| 2523 | > |  | 
| 2524 | > | Added dctimestep -x and -y options to specify image dimensions | 
| 2525 | > | for multiple outputs corresponding to result vectors. | 
| 2526 | > |  | 
| 2527 | > | Added -P option to rcalc to pass formatted input when cond is <= 0. | 
| 2528 | > |  | 
| 2529 | > | Created rcrop utility for cropping matrices and pictures more | 
| 2530 | > | conveniently, correcting view information.  Expect it to be handy | 
| 2531 | > | for extracting rows and columns from matrices, mostly. | 
| 2532 | > |  | 
| 2533 | > | Changed pcomb so -o option elides original exposure values | 
| 2534 | > | from indented source headers. | 
| 2535 | > |  | 
| 2536 | > | Added getinfo -r option, which is similar to -a except it will | 
| 2537 | > | replace indicated lines with new ones. | 
| 2538 | > |  | 
| 2539 | > | Slight change to vwrays -d option to not spit out "-ld-", and to | 
| 2540 | > | produce "-ld+" without requiring input picture as argument. | 
| 2541 | > |  | 
| 2542 | > | Added automatic overture calculation to rtpict with -n > 1 if | 
| 2543 | > | ambient cache is on and file is named.  If straight image output | 
| 2544 | > | is requested, we randomize all samples and avoid cache collisions. | 
| 2545 | > |  | 
| 2546 | > | Added cnt -s option to shuffle output. | 
| 2547 | > |  | 
| 2548 | > | Fixed issue with divide-by-zero errors in the ambient super-sampling | 
| 2549 | > | routine discovered by Jon Sargent of Solemma.  This affected regions | 
| 2550 | > | that had zero radiance, such as black backgrounds or unlit areas | 
| 2551 | > | with -av 0 0 0, when super-sampling was effectively disabled, causing | 
| 2552 | > | some loss in accuracy of the results. | 
| 2553 | > |  | 
| 2554 | > | Updated Klems Half- and Quarter-bases to match angles currently used | 
| 2555 | > | in WINDOW. | 
| 2556 | > |  | 
| 2557 | > | Eliminated most aiming failures for triangular light sources, at the | 
| 2558 | > | expense of conservative sampling near the centroid.  Thanks to | 
| 2559 | > | David Geisler-Moroder for his help on this. | 
| 2560 | > |  | 
| 2561 | > | Increased maximum set size to 8191 to avoid set overflow errors. | 
| 2562 | > |  | 
| 2563 | > | Added source obstruction test to statistics being kept on which | 
| 2564 | > | sources were visible in adaptive shadow testing code.  Previous | 
| 2565 | > | behavior was likely over-estimating source contributions. | 
| 2566 | > |  | 
| 2567 | > | Added diffuse components into maximum directional hemispherical | 
| 2568 | > | reported by checkBSDF, so comparing to 100% is easier for each | 
| 2569 | > | component. | 
| 2570 | > |  | 
| 2571 | > | Fixed incorrect calculations in iso2klems script, thanks to | 
| 2572 | > | help from Jacob Jonnson. | 
| 2573 | > |  | 
| 2574 | > | Updated official copyright and license according to new wording | 
| 2575 | > | provided by Jean Haemmerle at the LBNL Intellectual Property Office. | 
| 2576 | > | Both were copied verbatim from e-mail I received from Taoning Wang | 
| 2577 | > | on 8/20/2022. | 
| 2578 | > |  | 
| 2579 | > | Added -features option to rpict, rtrace, and rcontrib to check | 
| 2580 | > | which features are present or look for specific feature support. | 
| 2581 | > | This addition was suggested by Peter Apian-Bennewitz as an easier | 
| 2582 | > | way to determine which version of Radiance is installed and what | 
| 2583 | > | it supports, and is timely as we begin our refactoring of the | 
| 2584 | > | rendering code.  There are no current plans to add this to rvu. | 
| 2585 | > |  | 
| 2586 | > | Added falsecolor -odim, -orct, and -c0 options to overlay grid of | 
| 2587 | > | values on image.  This was requested by Rob Shakespeare. | 
| 2588 | > |  | 
| 2589 | > | Added -i* and -o* options in rhcopy for reading rays from the | 
| 2590 | > | standard input and writing rays from holodeck to standard output. | 
| 2591 | > | This will hopefully be useful in combining rholo with rcontrib. | 
| 2592 | > |  | 
| 2593 | > | Added further checking for coincident (overlapping) flat surfaces, | 
| 2594 | > | preferring front sides to back sides in the ray intersection | 
| 2595 | > | calculation.  This only applies to rings and faces, as the other | 
| 2596 | > | surface types would have required additional calculations to | 
| 2597 | > | make them work.  Material transparency is still the primary | 
| 2598 | > | consideration, now followed by ray hit side, followed by | 
| 2599 | > | modifier definition order in the input. | 
| 2600 | > |  | 
| 2601 | > | Increased octree and object limits to allow scenes with billions | 
| 2602 | > | of primitives. | 
| 2603 | > |  | 
| 2604 | > | Made reciprocity averaging default to "off" in bsdf2ttree, as it seems | 
| 2605 | > | to create more problems than it solves. | 
| 2606 | > |  | 
| 2607 | > | ==================== | 
| 2608 | > | Version 6.0 | 
| 2609 | > |  | 
| 2610 | > | Extensive changes to enable spectral rendering, which defaults to "off" | 
| 2611 | > | to maintain backwards-compatibility with previous versions, with the | 
| 2612 | > | exception of the ambient file format, which is changed.  The MAXCSAMP | 
| 2613 | > | macro, which defaults to 24, sets the maximum number of spectral samples. | 
| 2614 | > | The actual number of samples is set by the "-cs" option, which defaults | 
| 2615 | > | to 3 for rpict, rtrace, and rcontrib.  The latter two programs support | 
| 2616 | > | straight spectral output, but rpict is initially restricted to | 
| 2617 | > | tristimulus output pictures.  New pattern primitives "spectrum", | 
| 2618 | > | "specfile", and "specfunc" have been added as a means to specify | 
| 2619 | > | spectral reflectance, emittance, etc. to materials that still have | 
| 2620 | > | only 3 color channels.  Those RGB channels will still affect the | 
| 2621 | > | spectrum if used.  Unfortunately photon-mapping is currently broken when | 
| 2622 | > | spectral sampling is enabled, but we will fix this as soon as possible. | 
| 2623 | > | Calculation overhead appears to be approximately 10-15% for RGB | 
| 2624 | > | renderings compared to version 5.4a. | 
| 2625 | > |  | 
| 2626 | > | Added spectral rendering to rvu as well, and made -cs and -cw | 
| 2627 | > | options standard across the rendering library.  I also brought | 
| 2628 | > | mkillum, ranimove, rsensor, and mksource into the fold.  These | 
| 2629 | > | tools were broken in the initial release.  (Hopefully, they are | 
| 2630 | > | working now, but none have been tested as yet.) | 
| 2631 | > | There was also an indexing bug in the spectral->RGB conversions | 
| 2632 | > | that made reds into blues and vice versa, which has been fixed. | 
| 2633 | > |  | 
| 2634 | > | Added i/o for spectral pictures to rmtxop, the first program that can | 
| 2635 | > | ingest them.  (Only rtrace, rcontrib, and rfluxmtx can render them.) | 
| 2636 | > | New symbolic rmtxop -c options, such as RGB, XYZ, S (for scotopic) | 
| 2637 | > | and M (for melanopic) make color conversions simpler.  Alternatively, | 
| 2638 | > | a reference matrix or picture may be given and the color space of | 
| 2639 | > | that file will be used.  The -C option takes either a symbolic | 
| 2640 | > | color space or reference file and is "sticky," so it applies to | 
| 2641 | > | all subsequent input files that do not have their own -c right ahead | 
| 2642 | > | of them. | 
| 2643 | > |  | 
| 2644 | > | Added spectral picture support to rcrop and radcompare. | 
| 2645 | > |  | 
| 2646 | > | Added new utility, rcomb, which is hard to type and hard to | 
| 2647 | > | pronounce, and probably equally difficult to use.  Sort of a | 
| 2648 | > | combination of rmtxop and pcomb, it works with all the inputs and | 
| 2649 | > | outputs that rmtxop handles, but allows for general expressions | 
| 2650 | > | like those in pcomb for putting matrices together, working on | 
| 2651 | > | an element at a time.  (No resizing of matrices or accessing | 
| 2652 | > | neighboring elements, as permitted in pcomb.)  It saves memory | 
| 2653 | > | over rmtxop by operating on a row at a time, so can handle | 
| 2654 | > | input and output matrices with any number of rows.  It does | 
| 2655 | > | provide for a single matrix-multiplication operation at the end, | 
| 2656 | > | which only requires memory for that final matrix. | 
| 2657 | > |  | 
| 2658 | > | Added support for filtering hyperspectral images to pfilt. | 
| 2659 | > |  | 
| 2660 | > | Added support for 1- and 3-component float matrix i/o to | 
| 2661 | > | pcomb to allow for better interoperability. | 
| 2662 | > |  | 
| 2663 | > | Added support for -co+ option to rtpict, so it can directly | 
| 2664 | > | produce hyperspectral images. |