| 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. | 
| 2665 | + |  | 
| 2666 | + | Added new "specdata" and "specpict" primitives to support | 
| 2667 | + | interpolated spectral data files and hyperspectral images | 
| 2668 | + | as patterns. |