[Radiance-general] Photosphere 1.0 for Macintosh

[Greg Ward]

If any of you Radiance users out there are running Mac OS X, I welcome 
you to download and test drive the application I've been working on in 
my spare time for the past couple of years, called Photosphere.  I just 
put together the first official release (1.0), and it's hanging off the 
Radiance website at:

	http://radsite.lbl.gov/pickup/photosphere.tar.gz

For those of you who attended last year's workshop, I gave a little 
talk on this program, which Peter has made available at radiance-online:

	http://www.radiance-online.org/radiance-workshop1/cd/Ward/HDRbrowser

(I renamed it from "Photophile" to "Photosphere" based on some 
derogatory feedback.)

In addition to providing a means to catalog and browse regular and high 
dynamic-range images (including JPEG, TIFF, Radiance, LogLuv TIFF, and 
ILM's OpenEXR format), Photosphere can also build HDR images from 
hand-held, bracketed exposures.  (This is a first, as far as I know.)  
Eventually, I hope to port this to Linux and Windows, but I'll probably 
need some help on this.  Ian Ashdown keeps saying he'll work on this, 
and I believe he will, but not until he gets a few more urgent projects 
taken care of....

Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.  I'd 
be very happy to hear them.

-Greg