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+colored sky option.
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+Version 5.3
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+Version 5.3 (Released September 1, 2020)
+Created radcompare program to compare Radiance tool output to reference outputs
+during unit-testing.
+time steps.
+Added ability to output color image from rtrace with any of -ovrx options.
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+Also fixed inconsistency of -oN output when ray casting versus full trace.
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+Before, it would flip normal to front side unless ray casting.  Now, -oN
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+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
+rtrace output into separate files or streams.
+Improved getinfo so that it can also hop over resolution string with -c
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+and header elide mode.
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+and header elide mode.  Use +d to include resolution string in output,
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+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
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+depth maps is in src/util/depthcodec.{h,c}.
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+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.
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+Code for loading normal maps is in src/util/normcodec.{h,c}.
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+Code for loading normal maps is in src/common/normcodec.{h,c}.
+Created rcode_ident tool to create indexed identifier files.
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+Code for loading these files is in src/util/idmap.{h,c}.
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+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).
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+Created rcode2bmp script to create images from new rcode_* output maps.
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+Improved efficiency of rmtxop in cases where matrix multiplication is
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+faster evaluated right-to-left, as when the final component is a
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+column vector.  Also added ability to apply trailing unary operators
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+(-t, and -s or -c) to resulting matrix.
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+Added new depth, normal, and ID file types to radcompare.
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+Added BigEndian= header line for automatic byte-swapping in rmtxop
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+and radcompare.
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+Added new "turbo" palette to falsecolor (thanks to Taoning).
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+Nathaniel Jones created the "dcglare" program for annual glare
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+simulations when the sun and sky are visible through the window.
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+Tutorial is posted at
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+"https://github.com/nljones/Accelerad/wiki/The-Imageless-Method-for-Spatial-and-Annual-Glare-Analysis".
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+Added support for loading RGBE images into matrices in dctimestep.
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+Added -y option to gensky and gendaylit to support more accurate Michalsky
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+solar position calculation.
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+Changed rsplit, so specifying a space as the separator parses words
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+between whitespace.
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+Added ability of vwrays, pinterp, and pmblur2 to read encoded depth files.
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+Added -o RxCxR1xC1 facility to perform blocking in rcollate.
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+Made it so number of segments in genworm, genrev, and gensurf can be
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+given as expressions of previously defined variables, etc.
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+Added -D and -n option to gendaymtx to output sun description and skip
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+matrix output on request.  A -M option was also added to output solar
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+modifiers for rcontrib.  Support also added for leap days in WEA input.
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+Enhancements sponsored by Ladybug Tools.
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+Updated eplus_uvf to work with IDF version 9.x, checking version number.
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+Fix to glarendx issues with dgi calculation.
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+Made it so rmtxop and dctimestep undo any exposure applied to Radiance
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+pictures they may load.
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+Added robjutil utility to manipulate Wavefront .OBJ files.
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+Fixed a crash related to rtrace -om or -oM with mesh instances containing
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+materials.
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+Improved rtrace flushing function to handle any value for -x without
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+deadlock on controlling process.
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+Eliminated unnecessary start-up procedures for rtrace when only ray-casting
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+is needed (i.e., no tracing or value output).
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+Improved isotropic sampling method in bsdf2ttree using "zipper" approach
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+applied in genBSDF.
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+Added limit to memory used by high-resolution tensor tree BSDFs for
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+cumulative cache during MC sampling (rendering).  Limit set to 250MBytes
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+per BSDF for standard architectures.
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+Added -n and -s options to bsdf2ttree to provide some user control
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+over super-sampling.
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+Improved surface normal codec used by ambient file to store orthonormal
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+directions exactly.
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+Improved peak extraction method, which was undervaluing transmission
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+in many cases.
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+New version of evalglare from Jan Wienold.
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+Added -u option to gendaymtx to elide data columns (time steps) when
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+the sun is not visible above the horizon.
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+=========================
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+Version 5.4
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+Added rcollate -c option to force operation to continue even if it
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+seems unnecessary.  Made tool more robust.
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+Added -t option to rcontrib (and rfluxmtx) to report progress after the
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+given number of seconds.
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+Added "test" target to makeall to run unit tests.
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+Modified bsdf2ttree to allow different parameters per input SIR file.
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+Fixed issues with very large matrix files (> 2GB) in dctimestep, rmtxop,
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+and rcollate.
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+Added -rf and -rb options to rmtxop to load front or back reflectance
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+matrix data from XML file rather than transmission.  (Lars Grobe suggested.)
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+Improved behavior for coincident surfaces with different materials.
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+Rather than returning one surface or the other based on floating-point
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+vagaries, opaque materials are now preferred over transparent ones.
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+If the materials are both transparent or both opaque, then whichever
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+surface appeared later in the scene description will be selected.
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+This came of a request for consistent behavior with legal CAD output
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+from Peter Apian-Bennewitz.
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+Added explicit tests for on-edge intersections with polygons.  This should
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+eliminate stray rays and tiny light leaks that often appear even in
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+well-constructed geometry.
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+Added "-s up" option to pabopto2bsdf to allow for 180 degree symmetry,
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+meaning that data repeats after 180 degree rotation (as distinguished
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+from "-s bilateral" whose data is mirrored about a vertical plane).
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+Thanks to Helen Rose Wilson for the suggestion and informing me that
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+such a thing exists.
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+Removed upper limit on number of modifiers in rcontrib.
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+Put cap on maximum ambient gradient to avoid over-extrapolation of
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+poorly computed irradiance cache values.

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Revision 1.387 by greg, Fri Feb 19 22:05:46 2021 UTC