--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2018/06/25 20:49:10 1.321 +++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2020/03/25 01:51:09 1.365 @@ -2157,7 +2157,7 @@ Added bsdfview tool analogous to objview but for BSDF which calls bsdf2rad then rad with a few useful default views. ========================= -Version 5.2 +Version 5.2 (Release October 8, 2018) Created psketch program to apply non-photorealistic rendering to selected objects, identified by modifier name(s). @@ -2221,8 +2221,130 @@ optional build in src/cv/. Fixed bug in rcontrib with virtual sources, where pretest was adding to modifier accumulation buffers. Reported by Mostapha. -Added an "sBSDF" material type that explicitly checks for peak extraction. +Added an "aBSDF" material type that explicitly checks for peak extraction. Its arguments are the same as the original "BSDF" type, but without the thickness parameter, as proxy geometry is not supported by this new type. The old "BSDF" type no longer does peak extraction under any circumstances, since this behavior is superfluous for proxied geometry. + +Added -r option to bsdf2rad (and bsdfview) to fix BSDF min and max range +for comparing BSDFs. + +Fixed issue with pfilt -m option and uneven image size changes pointed +out by Rob Shakespeare. + +Updates to evalglare and gendaylit from Jan Wienold, including new +colored sky option. + +========================= +Version 5.3 + +Created radcompare program to compare Radiance tool output to reference outputs +during unit-testing. + +Fixed issue reading very large files (> 2 GBytes) in rcollate. + +Made picking function in rvu ignore transparent and void surfaces. + +Added -orRxX options to rtrace to enable output of mirrored and unmirrored +contributions and distances to enable new types of reprojections. This also +cleaned up and unified handling of effective ray lengths throughout code. + +Bug fixes from Jan Wienold for evalglare. + +Changed indexed (numbered) output from dctimestep to start from 0 rather +than 1, to make it more consistent with expected input naming. + +Increased default sampling in bsdf2klems (-n option) to 1024. + +Fixed an issue noticed by David G-M that was causing genBSDF to bias +isotropic tensor tree samples resulting in subsequent failure of +peak extraction with "aBSDF" type. + +Introduced max() and min() functions to .cal library. + +Added random incident patch sampling to bsdf2klems to improve accuracy +with scattering interpolation representation input (e.g., from +pabopto2bsdf). The other input types already sampled incident patch area. + +Added gendaymtx -A option to compute average sky over all the input +time steps. + +Added ability to output color image from rtrace with any of -ovrx options. +Also fixed inconsistency of -oN output when ray casting versus full trace. +Before, it would flip normal to front side unless ray casting. Now, -oN +always reports the unflipped normal. + +Changed rlam behavior so -iaN reads N lines from a stream rather than N +characters. This seems more useful, since -ibN is somewhat redundant with +the old behavior. + +Created rsplit program as compliment to rlam and to handle more complex +rtrace output into separate files or streams. + +Improved getinfo so that it can also hop over resolution string with -c +and header elide mode. Use +d to include resolution string in output, +and -d to elide with - and -c options. + +Made pvalue -u option mean "uncompressed" with -r. Also, allow skipping +bytes on standard input. + +Created rcode_depth tool to convert to and from a 16-bit/pixel portable +depth image encoding that uses a mix of linear and reciprocal distance +with explicit representations of 0 and infinity. Code for loading these +depth maps is in src/common/depthcodec.{h,c}. + +Created rcode_norm tool to convert to and from 32-bit/pixel portable +surface normal representation, matching the one in src/common/dircode.c. +Code for loading normal maps is in src/common/normcodec.{h,c}. + +Created rcode_ident tool to create indexed identifier files. +Code for loading these files is in src/common/idmap.{h,c}. + +Added -o* option to rtpict to produce layered images that handle most +output types from rtrace (colors, surface normals, distances, IDs). + +Created rcode2bmp script to create images from new rcode_* output maps. + +Improved efficiency of rmtxop in cases where matrix multiplication is +faster evaluated right-to-left, as when the final component is a +column vector. Also added ability to apply trailing unary operators +(-t, and -s or -c) to resulting matrix. + +Added new depth, normal, and ID file types to radcompare. + +Added BigEndian= header line for automatic byte-swapping in rmtxop +and radcompare. Doesn't work quite as automatically as it should +for pvalue -r, currently. + +Added new "turbo" palette to falsecolor (thanks to Taoning). + +Nathaniel Jones created the "dcglare" program for annual glare +simulations when the sun and sky are visible through the window. +Tutorial is posted at +"https://github.com/nljones/Accelerad/wiki/The-Imageless-Method-for-Spatial-and-Annual-Glare-Analysis". + +Added support for loading RGBE images into matrices in dctimestep. + +Added -y option to gensky and gendaylit to support more accurate Michalsky +solar position calculation. + +Changed rsplit so specifying a space as the separator parses words +between whitespace. + +Added ability of vwrays, pinterp, and pmblur2 to read encoded depth files. + +Added -o RxCxR1xC1 facility to perform blocking in rcollate. + +Made it so number of segments in genworm, genrev, and gensurf can be +given as expressions of previously defined variables, etc. + +Added -D and -n option to gendaymtx to output sun description and skip +matrix output on request. + +Updated eplus_uvf to work with IDF version 9.x, checking version number. + +Fix to glarendx issues with dgi calculation. + +Made it so rmtxop and dctimestep undo any exposure applied to Radiance +pictures they may load.