| 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 | < | Also added spectral picture support to rcrop and radcompare. | 
| 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 something like a combination | 
| 2647 | > | of rmtxop and pcomb, it works with all the inputs and | 
| 2648 | > | outputs that rmtxop handles, but allows for general expressions | 
| 2649 | > | like those in pcomb for putting matrices together, working on | 
| 2650 | > | an element at a time.  (No resizing of matrices or accessing | 
| 2651 | > | neighboring elements, as permitted in pcomb.)  It saves memory | 
| 2652 | > | over rmtxop by operating on a row at a time, so can handle | 
| 2653 | > | input and output matrices with any number of rows.  It does | 
| 2654 | > | provide for a single matrix-multiplication operation at the end, | 
| 2655 | > | which only requires memory for that final matrix. | 
| 2656 | > |  | 
| 2657 | > | Added support for filtering hyperspectral images to pfilt. | 
| 2658 | > |  | 
| 2659 | > | Added support for 1- and 3-component float matrix i/o to | 
| 2660 | > | pcomb to allow for better interoperability. | 
| 2661 | > |  | 
| 2662 | > | Added support for -co+ option to rtpict, so it can directly | 
| 2663 | > | produce hyperspectral images. | 
| 2664 | > |  | 
| 2665 | > | Added new "specdata" and "specpict" primitives to support | 
| 2666 | > | interpolated spectral data files and hyperspectral images | 
| 2667 | > | as patterns. | 
| 2668 | > |  | 
| 2669 | > | Added support for multispectal sampling in rsensor, which will | 
| 2670 | > | put out as many color channels as specified in any -cs option | 
| 2671 | > | (default is 3 for RGB). | 
| 2672 | > |  | 
| 2673 | > | Added ability of mgf2rad to convert spectral data at least | 
| 2674 | > | for light, glow, plastic, and metal primitive types.  Need | 
| 2675 | > | to use new '-s' option to get new output. | 
| 2676 | > |  | 
| 2677 | > | Added handling of spectral images to rcode2bmp script. | 
| 2678 | > |  | 
| 2679 | > | Minor change to rcollate to allow explicit byte records to | 
| 2680 | > | be any specified length without checks against header input. | 
| 2681 | > |  | 
| 2682 | > | Added new hemisphere type to rfluxmtx, "h=cie" for CIE sky | 
| 2683 | > | scanner positions.  These are 145 patches with identical | 
| 2684 | > | row counts to Tregenza, but starting from a different | 
| 2685 | > | azimuth and reversing row directions at adjacent altitudes. | 
| 2686 | > |  | 
| 2687 | > | Added optimization for long argument lists and arrays in | 
| 2688 | > | the calcomp routines used for rendering and in rcalc, etc. | 
| 2689 | > |  | 
| 2690 | > | Added error estimate spreading to ambient super-sampling | 
| 2691 | > | algorithm (-as) to improve performance especially in | 
| 2692 | > | scenes with sharp cut-offs. | 
| 2693 | > |  | 
| 2694 | > | Added -i option to gendaymtx to match -i option of gendaylit. | 
| 2695 | > | Thanks to Yongqing for initial implementation. | 
| 2696 | > |  | 
| 2697 | > | Changed rcrop so negative #rows or #cols counts back from end. | 
| 2698 | > |  | 
| 2699 | > | Added rcomb -n option for multi-processing of very large matrices. | 
| 2700 | > |  | 
| 2701 | > | Made it so rsplit and rlam can handle any number of input files | 
| 2702 | > | up to active open file descriptor limit. | 
| 2703 | > |  | 
| 2704 | > | Taoning Wang added genssky tool for generating spectral sky | 
| 2705 | > | descriptions. | 
| 2706 | > |  | 
| 2707 | > | Taoning added gensdaymtx utility based on gendaymtx, and | 
| 2708 | > | added epw2wea -a option to include required information. | 
| 2709 | > |  | 
| 2710 | > | Fixed bug introduced in Auguest 2022 (5.4 release) in distant | 
| 2711 | > | light source sampling, which caused aiming failures.  (Thanks | 
| 2712 | > | to Mike DiPompeo of LightStanza for reporting the issue.) |