| 1291 | 
  | 
Added -p option to rcalc for "passive mode" that transmits | 
| 1292 | 
  | 
unrecognized input -- useful for substituting data in the | 
| 1293 | 
  | 
middle of a stream. | 
| 1294 | 
+ | 
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| 1295 | 
+ | 
Fixed a very obscure bug in rpict that caused a dark horizontal | 
| 1296 | 
+ | 
line in certain cylindrical projections due to improper drawing | 
| 1297 | 
+ | 
of the sky dome source in rt/srcdraw.c. | 
| 1298 | 
+ | 
 | 
| 1299 | 
+ | 
Fixed problems with effective ray lenths computed for dielectric | 
| 1300 | 
+ | 
and BRTDfunc materials.  This was most evident in breakup of holodeck | 
| 1301 | 
+ | 
views when VDISTANCE=True. | 
| 1302 | 
+ | 
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| 1303 | 
+ | 
Fixed rad so that 'scene' variable may consist only of inline commands. | 
| 1304 | 
+ | 
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| 1305 | 
+ | 
Fixed bug introduced in shadow caching routines where sources in the | 
| 1306 | 
+ | 
middle of spheres were not illuminating properly.  Thanks to Guilio | 
| 1307 | 
+ | 
Antonutto for spotting this problem. | 
| 1308 | 
+ | 
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| 1309 | 
+ | 
Modified gensky behavior so if time is given with standard time zone | 
| 1310 | 
+ | 
designation, any -m option is ignored. | 
| 1311 | 
+ | 
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| 1312 | 
+ | 
Added -n option to mkillum for (shared memory) parallel processing. | 
| 1313 | 
+ | 
 | 
| 1314 | 
+ | 
Fixed a long-standing bug in parallel processing code that only | 
| 1315 | 
+ | 
seemed to manifest with the new mkillum -n option, where rtrace | 
| 1316 | 
+ | 
would deadlock upon termination.  The reason it never showed up | 
| 1317 | 
+ | 
before is because I always closed processes in the reverse order | 
| 1318 | 
+ | 
of opening them in other programs.  I went through and found similar | 
| 1319 | 
+ | 
(potential) bugs in the rview device subprocess code and util/netproc.c. | 
| 1320 | 
+ | 
 | 
| 1321 | 
+ | 
Corrected the normalization of the Gaussian reflectance model.  This will | 
| 1322 | 
+ | 
cause an increase in specularity for low-lying light sources. | 
| 1323 | 
+ | 
Thanks to Don Walters of Boeing and Arne Duer of the Univ. of Innsbruck | 
| 1324 | 
+ | 
for pointing out this error.  The square root used for the two cosines | 
| 1325 | 
+ | 
in the denominator of the normalization factor should not be present. | 
| 1326 | 
+ | 
This was a serious mistake I made in the original model, which went | 
| 1327 | 
+ | 
undiscovered (at least to my knowledge) for over a decade.  I think | 
| 1328 | 
+ | 
Bruce Walter of Cornell may have known about it, but I never heard | 
| 1329 | 
+ | 
the details of his discovery. |