[Radiance-general] strange artifacts in rendering (and Yosemite bug)

[Randolph M. Fritz]

Sigh. I think in a few more years, anyone who is interested in
scientific computing, rather than business functions or social
networking, is going to be running ChromeOS.
--
Randolph M. Fritz, Lighting Design and Simulation
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On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:
> Many thanks for the quick turn-around on that, Rob!  This mostly applies to Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) users, but anyone who cares to do a before/after timing, that would also be useful.
>
> Cheers,
> -Greg
>
>> From: "Guglielmetti, Robert" <Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>
>> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] strange artifacts in rendering (and Yosemite bug)
>> Date: August 21, 2015 2:47:03 PM PDT
>>
>> To that end, I just moved the NREL 5.0.a.4 release tag up to Greg's latest
>> commit, and have posted a fresh Mac installer on there, so now you don't
>> even have to be able to compile from source to help Greg test this out!
>> Come and get it:
>>
>> https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/releases/tag/5.0.a.4
>>
>> Windows (including 32-bit!) and Linux packages will be re-made and
>> re-posted to this release page shortly.
>>
>> - Rob
>>
>>
>> On 8/21/15, 2:19 PM, "Greg Ward" <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have not tested all the programs fully under Yosemite to make sure
>>> there are no more deadlocks.  I would appreciate help on that from the
>>> user community ahead of the official 5.0 release, which I'm hoping to get
>>> out in the next week or so.  That means getting a 5.0a installer out or
>>> getting volunteers who don't mind compiling from source to run rvu,
>>> rtrace, rcontrib, genBSDF, etc. in -n >1 mode....
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -Greg
>>>
>>>> From: "Guglielmetti, Robert" <Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] strange artifacts in rendering (and
>>>> Yosemite bug)
>>>> Date: August 21, 2015 1:06:40 PM PDT
>>>>
>>>> This is fantastic news! (Roland/Lars, take note...)
>>>>
>>>> I don't recall, is there a concrete test for the fork() thing? I was
>>>> just in the midst of re-making the Radiance packages (we need to support
>>>> 32-bit Windows still), but I will *happily* reset the release tag to
>>>> this commit and start over again, if it means I get to re-enable
>>>> OpenStudio-Radiance multithreading on Yosemite!
>>>>
>>>> On 8/21/15, 12:59 PM, "Gregory J. Ward"
>>>> <gregoryjward at gmail.com<mailto:gregoryjward at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In any event, I checked in a change that I'm hoping fixes this issue
>>>> under Yosemite, while not costing us too much on all the other Unix
>>>> platforms that don't have this issue.
>
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