[Radiance-general] RE: New rtcontrib program - mkillum conflict
Martin Moeck
MMoeck at engr.psu.edu
Sun Jun 5 17:08:24 CEST 2005
Hi,
After installing mksource and rcontrib, mkillum does not finish any more. There seems to be a conflict. Mkillum without -ab 1 works fine, but anything else is now disfunctional, meaning, it just runs without end. Can others please check if they have similar experiences?
Thanks
Martin Moeck
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From: radiance-general-bounces at radiance-online.org on behalf of Greg Ward
Sent: Thu 5/26/2005 3:17 PM
To: Radiance general discussion
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Subject: [Radiance-general] New rtcontrib program
Hi All,
Somewhat related to the light pipe discussion, I have just completed
work on a new utility called "rtcontrib," for computing arbitrary
light contributions. This is a culmination of earlier work I did on
rtrace to allow for the correct reporting of ray weights in trace
output (the new -oTW option), which I mentioned on radiance-dev a
little over a month ago. The benefits of this facility will not
really be felt or known until a third (C-shell script) layer is added
for calculating daylight coefficients and the like. Right now, the
simplest thing you can do with rtcontrib is arrive at a set of images
corresponding to the different light sources in your scene, such that
you can recombine them with dimming multipliers to simulate lighting
controls. An example of this is given in the man page, attached.
Rtcontrib can also be used by the more adventurous among you to
compute input/output relations for devices such as light pipes and
shading systems, although I have yet to test such an approach,
myself. I expect we'll be learning more about what one can do with
this in the coming months, and I hope to work with Christoph Reinhart
and John Mardaljevic on standardizing daylight coefficient
calculations for starters.
-Greg
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RTCONTRIB(1)
RTCONTRIB(1)
NAME
rtcontrib - compute contributions in a RADIANCE scene
SYNOPSIS
rtcontrib [ -n nprocs ][ -e expr ][ -f source ][ -o fspec ]
[ -b binv ]
-m mod .. [ $EVAR ] [ @file ] [ rtrace options ] octree
DESCRIPTION
Rtcontrib computes ray contributions (i.e., color
coefficients) for
objects whose modifiers are named in one or more -m
settings. These
modifiers are usually materials associated with light
sources or sky
domes, and must directly modify some geometric primitives to
be consid-
ered in the output. The output of rtcontrib has many
potential uses.
Source contributions can be used as components in linear
combination to
reproduce any desired variation, e.g., simulating lighting
controls or
changing sky conditions via daylight coefficients. More
generally,
rtcontrib can be used to compute arbitrary input-output
relationships
in optical systems, such as luminaires, light pipes,
and shading
devices.
Rtcontrib calls rtrace(1) to calculate the contributions for
each input
ray, and the output tallies are sent to one or more files
according to
the -o specification. If an output specification contains a
"%s" for-
mat, this will be replaced by the modifier name. The -b
option may be
used to further define a "bin number" within each object if
finer reso-
lution is needed, and this will be applied to a "%d" format
in the out-
put file specification if present. The actual bin number
is computed
at run time based on ray direction and surface
intersection, as
described below. The most recent -b and -o options to the
left of each
-m setting affect only that modifier. (The ordering of
other options
is unimportant.)
If a -b expression is defined for a particular modifier, the
bin number
will be evaluated at run time for each ray contribution
from rtrace.
Specifically, each ray's world intersection point will be
assigned to
the variables Px, Py, and Pz, and the normalized ray
direction will be
assigned to Dx, Dy, and Dz. These parameters may be combined
with def-
initions given in -e arguments and files read using the -f
option. The
computed bin value will be rounded to the nearest whole
number. This
mechanism allows the user to define precise regions or
directions they
wish to accumulate, such as the Tregenza sky
discretization, which
would be otherwise impossible to specify as a set of
RADIANCE primi-
tives. The rules and predefined functions available for
these expres-
sions are described in the rcalc(1) man page.
If no -o specification is given, results are written on
the standard
output in order of modifier (as given on the command line)
then bin
number. Concatenated data is also sent to a lone output file
(i.e., an
initial -o specification without formatting strings). If a "%
s" format
appears but no "%d" in the -o specification, then each
modifier will
have its own output file, with multiple values per record in
the case
of a non-zero -b definition. If a "%d" format appears
but no "%s",
then each bin will get its own output file, with modifiers
output in
order in each record. For text output, each RGB coefficient
triple is
separated by a tab, with a newline at the end of each ray
record. For
binary output formats, there is no such delimiter to mark
the end of
each record.
Input and output format defaults to plain text, where each
ray's origin
and direction (6 real values) are given on input, and one
line is pro-
duced per output file per ray. Alternative data
representations may be
specified by the -f[io] option, which is described in the
rtrace man
page along with the associated -x and -y resolution
settings. In par-
ticular, the color ('c') output data representation together
with posi-
tive dimensions for -x and -y will produce an
uncompressed RADIANCE
picture, suitable for manipulation with pcomb(1) and related
tools.
If the -n option is specified with a value greater than
1, multiple
rtrace processes will be used to accelerate computation on
a shared
memory machine. Note that there is no benefit to using more
processes
than there are local CPUs available to do the work, and the
rtcontrib
process itself may use a considerable amount of CPU time.
Options may be given on the command line and/or read from
the environ-
ment and/or read from a file. A command argument beginning
with a dol-
lar sign ('$') is immediately replaced by the contents of
the given
environment variable. A command argument beginning with
an at sign
('@') is immediately replaced by the contents of the given file.
EXAMPLES
To compute the proportional contributions from sources
modified by
"light1" vs. "light2" on a set of illuminance values:
rtcontrib -I+ @render.opt -o c_%s.dat -m light1 -m light2 \
scene.oct < test.dat
To generate a pair of images corresponding to these two
lights' contri-
butions:
vwrays -ff -x 1024 -y 1024 -vf best.vf | rtcontrib -ffc \
`vwrays -d -x 1024 -y 1024 -vf best.vf` @render.opt \
-o c_%s.pic -m light1 -m light2 scene.oct
These images may then be recombined using the desired outputs
of light1
and light2:
pcomb -c 100 90 75 c_light1.pic -c 50 55 57
c_light2.pic \
> combined.pic
To compute an array of illuminance contributions according
to a Tre-
genza sky:
rtcontrib -b tbin -o sky.dat -m skyglow -b 0 -o ground.dat \
-m groundglow @render.opt -f tregenza.cal scene.oct < test.dat
AUTHOR
Greg Ward
SEE ALSO
cnt(1), getinfo(1), pcomb(1), pfilt(1), ra_rgbe(1), rcalc(1),
rpict(1),
rtrace(1), vwrays(1), ximage(1)
RADIANCE 5/25/05
RTCONTRIB(1)
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