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+TIFF output, respectively.  These formats are also understood on reverse
+conversion.  (16-bit/primary has been understood for some time, but not
+IEEE float.)
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+Added -N option to rad to start multiple rendering processes in
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+parallel.
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+Fixed bug where mesh instances were not being freed, so subsequent calls
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+in programs like ranimove would refer to bogus data.
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+Added support in normtiff for floating-point and 16-bit/sample TIFF input
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+files.
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+Changed marksources() routine (src/rt/source.c) to check all
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+primitives in the modifier chain for emitting types, not only
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+the first.  This permits sources to be described with intervening
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+modifiers before the light/illum/glow primitive and allows aliases
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+as well.
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+Fixed bug in xform where it was neglecting to add transform arguments
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+to new mesh primitive.
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+Added -dF and -dD options to pvalue for byte-swapped floats and
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+doubles, respectively.
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+Changed meta2tga to output correct colors.
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+Changed local coordinate index from 32-bits to 16-bits, which requires
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+that Radiance mesh files be recompiled.  (Later decided against this
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+change, as it caused problems with some models.)
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+Changed integer tone-mapping routines to better deal with images
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+containing large, constant regions.
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+Improved interaction with rholo -o ogl driver under OS X, which was
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+returning bad values from the depth buffer.
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+Minor bug fix in ranimove where it was restarting processes when it
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+didn't need to.
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+Increased accuracy of default ambient parameters in rpict, rview, and
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+rtrace.  In rad program, doubled -ar value, -ad value, and -as value,
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+and decreased -aa value a bit.  Also adjusted -lr upwards and -lw
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+downwards.  I should have done these things long ago, as processors
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+have been getting faster and faster over the years.
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+Fixed bug discovered by Marcus Jacobs where oconv was dumping core
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+when it was given too many modifiers.
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+Fixed problem with rpict where it was drawing illum sources badly
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+even when they weren't all that small in the view.
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+Added in(i) function to rcalc for more flexible channel evaluation.
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+Replaced all calls to vfork() with regular fork() calls.
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+Fixed bug in glarendx for dgr calculation with sources behind view.
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+Added -p option to histo to print percentages/percentiles r.t. counts.
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+Added a source occluder cache to accelerate shadow testing.  This
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+can save up to 50% of the calculation time in scenes with many
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+light sources, especially ones containing large occluders.  This
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+optimization may be tuned or switched off with the -DSHADCACHE=N
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+compile switch, where N is the resolution of the shadow cache, or
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+to disable it.  Since this is purely a time vs. memory trade-off,
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+I decided not to make it a new command-line option.  (We already
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+have plenty.)
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+****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
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+Changed the following command names to avoid conflicts:
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+        rview -> rvu (with symbolic link back to rview)
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+        calc -> icalc
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+        lam -> rlam
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+        gencat -> gencatenary
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+Improved -f option of normpat, which caused odd color changes before.
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+Created pgblur script which does fast Gaussian blur of image without changing
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+its dimensions.  This is very useful in certain types of image processing
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+calculations, such as finding or removing low frequencies.
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+****** COMPATIBILITY CHANGE ********
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+Changed little-used objpict script so that it takes scene files rather than
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+rpict options on the command line, and puts everything into the right
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+coordinate position automatically rather than requiring the user to do it.
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+Added -I option to replmarks for mesh instancing.
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+Made similar change for virtual sources to allow modifiers and aliases
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+on the mirror and prism types to work properly.
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+Rob Guglielmetti dded -lw and -lh options to falsecolor to control the
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+legend dimensions.  Made it so -lw 0 and/or -lh 0 turns legend off.
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+Made it so pcompos will read everything from a stream even if it doesn't
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+need it, so input commands will not receive a hangup signal.
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+Wrote ra_bmp program to convert to and from Windows BMP files (finally).
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+It's the most horrible image format I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot.
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+Increased -aa default value for all renderers (and also -ad and -as in
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+rview) at Schorsch's suggestion.  I think this undid my earlier decrease
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+of -aa last time, which I guess was ill-considered.
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+Modified oconv to keep subdividing the octree if there are too many
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+objects in a voxel even when the -r resolution limit has been
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+reached.  This was not done before due to problems with recursion,
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+and still, it will only continue to 256 times the original -r limit.
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+If that isn't enough, then there's probably no hope, anyway.
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+Added -l option to obj2mesh to search for material files in library
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+locations.
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+Increased polygon vertex limit to 512 in obj2mesh and obj2rad and added
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+warning if this limit is exceeded.
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+Added tone-mapping and monitor primary options to ra_bmp.  This gives
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+new functionality similar to normtiff and ximage.  It would be nice to
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+add this feature to the other ra_* programs as well...  someday.
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+Fixed long-standing bug in reported pixel ordering out of certain
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+protate commands.
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+Added -p option to rcalc for "passive mode" that transmits
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+unrecognized input -- useful for substituting data in the
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+middle of a stream.
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+Fixed a very obscure bug in rpict that caused a dark horizontal
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+line in certain cylindrical projections due to improper drawing
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+of the sky dome source in rt/srcdraw.c.
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+Fixed problems with effective ray lenths computed for dielectric
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+and BRTDfunc materials.  This was most evident in breakup of holodeck
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+views when VDISTANCE=True.
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+Fixed rad so that 'scene' variable may consist only of inline commands.
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+Fixed bug introduced in shadow caching routines where sources in the
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+middle of spheres were not illuminating properly.  Thanks to Guilio
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+Antonutto for spotting this problem.
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+Modified gensky behavior so if time is given with standard time zone
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+designation, any -m option is ignored.
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+Added -n option to mkillum for (shared memory) parallel processing.
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+Fixed a long-standing bug in parallel processing code that only
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+seemed to manifest with the new mkillum -n option, where rtrace
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+would deadlock upon termination.  The reason it never showed up
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+before is because I always closed processes in the reverse order
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+of opening them in other programs.  I went through and found similar
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+(potential) bugs in the rview device subprocess code and util/netproc.c.
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+Corrected the normalization of the Gaussian reflectance model.  This will
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+cause an increase in specularity for low-lying light sources.
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+Thanks to Don Walters of Boeing and Arne Duer of the Univ. of Innsbruck
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+for pointing out this error.  The square root used for the two cosines
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+in the denominator of the normalization factor should not be present.
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+This was a serious mistake I made in the original model, which went
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+undiscovered (at least to my knowledge) for over a decade.  I think
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+Bruce Walter of Cornell may have known about it, but I never heard
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+the details of his discovery.

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Revision 1.6 by greg, Tue Jul 1 19:04:08 2003 UTC vs.
Revision 1.48 by greg, Mon Sep 20 17:32:04 2004 UTC