[Radiance-general] Photon Map?

[Rob Guglielmetti]

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 05:40 AM, Weismann Stephan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> wich is the status of the photon map tool, developed by Roland 
> Schregle?
> At the ISE website i only found a beta version. Will there anywhen 
> come up a
> 'stable' version?
> Will there anywhen come up a more comfortable integration into 
> Radiance, or will
> it be compiled anywhen in the Radiance source?

Hi Stephan,

Forgive me if this had been answered already I am "disconnected" at the 
moment, have not checked my email in several hours and am just sitting 
down now to reply to some others, and will not send this till tomorrow, 
so the info may be a bit stale by then.  The photon map tool was part 
of Roland's PhD, and AFAIK it's sort-of "stalled" right now, he's doing 
some validations and the like.  Also, I believe it *is* stable.  You 
might also wanna check out Francesco Anselmo's compiled source 
packages; you have the option of downloading the Radiance release with 
the photon map module, precompiled, in a variety of formats (.rpm, 
etc...)  As far as future development, you'll have to talk to Roland...

Rob Guglielmetti
rpg@rumblestrip.org
www.rumblestrip.org