[Radiance-general] functional language

[Greg Ward]

Hi Rob et al.,

The pcomb(1) man page really needs to be reformatted.  Originally, 
there were just a couple of special-purpose variables for this tool, 
but I kept adding more and more and sticking them in the man page until 
I couldn't find anything there when I looked for it there, myself.  
I'll see if I can get around to reformatting it tomorrow.

Regarding "fileformats.pdf," this was a hopeful chapter in RwR along 
with the most essential reference manual ("refman.pdf") and a source 
tree guide, but the book was getting to long for Morgan Kaufmann so 
they were all relegated to the CD-ROM, along with all the man pages.  
(I don't think anyone really wants a full book of Radiance man pages as 
part of the text, so that's OK.)  The materials description file 
("materials.pdf") is also important reading for anyone who is doing 
critical work on Radiance materials.

Another basic introduction to Radiance and its uses is given in the 
lecture notes files "backgrnd.pdf", "analysis.pdf" and "rad.pdf".  
These files as well as the above are of course linked on radsite:

	http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/framer.html

Some of these materials are a bit dated, but that comes with the 
territory....

-Greg

> From: "Rob Guglielmetti" <rpg at rumblestrip.org>
> Date: February 3, 2005 12:34:27 PM PST
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> WE - White Efficacy, it is in the man page for pcomb. There are a lot 
>> of
>> variables floating around in the man page so it is a bit hard to find 
>> on
>> the first read or 10.
>
> Ah!  Thanks.  Learning a lot today...
>
> - Rob Guglielmetti