| 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.  Random image sampling | 
| 2544 | < | avoids some of the issues with redundant calculations but not all. | 
| 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, rmtxcomb, 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. |