RADIANCE Digests - list of
keywords sorted by date and volume
RADIANCE Digests - list of
keywords sorted by date and volume
OPTIONS New options and programs (-p,
-z, pinterp)
PENUMBRAS Penumbras and source
sampling
MODELS Modeling software
DRIVER Radiance display drivers
LIGHT Pfilt and ies2rad light sources
SIZE Modifiying source for huge scenes
COURSE Radiance course possibility
LIB Setting up the library path variable
RAYPATH
OCONV Oconv parameters and errors
PART Partitioned ray tracing using -vs
and -vl
ASPECT Aspect ratios and pfilt options
LUM Computing luminance and daylight
factors
SIG Questions about `88 Siggraph paper
COLOR Dealing with different color
formats
RPICT Rpict options
OUT Using Radiance to compute a simple
outdoor scene
ARCH Architrion file translator
ALG Secondary source calculations and new
algorithms
INST Installation of 1.4 and associated
problems
MOLEC Molecular modeling using Radiance
PHONG Phong surface normal interpolation
INTERN Radiance internals (image.c)
PREVW X11 previewer for Radiance
SPEC Spectral distributions curves
DAYF Daylight factors and unknown programs
VISION Vision-3D modeler for the
MacIntosh
GEOM Geometric Primitives in Radiance
ATMOS Simulating Atmospheric Effects
LARGE Large Radiance Models
PORT Portability Issues (on the long side)
PINTERP Uses for the Pinterp Program
MAC MacIntosh and Radiance
PICTURE Radiance Picutre file format
HPUX Hewlett-Packard UNIX and Radiance 1.4
DAYLIGHT Radiance and Daylight
Simulation
AMIGA Radiance on the Amiga 2000
COLORPICT Using the Colorpict
primitive
DOS Radiance under DOS?
RVIEW Rview and memory
LIGHTS Non-standard Light Sources
MODELING Textures, Surfaces and Lights
IMAGES Image Translators and Animations
GENERATORS Some new generator
contributions
LUMFACTOR Change in luminous
efficacy factor
MKILLUM New program for computing
distributions
AUTOCAD CMU work on a new AutoCAD
translator
MODELS Picking up and dropping off 3d
models
ART Radiance in the arts
RS6000 Compiling Radiance on the IBM
RS/6000
SUMANT Sumant Pattanaik's contributions
NIGHTTIME Rendering night time images
COMPILE Compile problems related to
X11 and malloc.c
OPENWINDOWS Some nice additions
for Sun's Open Windows
BUG A memory bug in rpict
DAYLIGHT Daylight Scripts and TIM's
ALIASING Anti-aliasing in Radiance
(again?)
LANGUAGE Radiance input language
definitions
NEXT Radiance compilation on the NeXT
STRANGE_VIEWS Methods for
generating odd images
SMLFLT_OPTION Problems with
SMLFLT compile switch in 2.0
ANTIMATTER How to use antimatter
type
DAYLIGHT_SIMULATION Understanding
daylight simulation options
LUMINOUS_EFFICACY Change in
luminous efficacy between 1.4 and 2.0
RPICT_PARAMETERS What are the
useful ranges of rpict parameters?
GENSURF New gensurf capabilities and
making teapots
ALIASING Aliasing and image
representation
SHARED_PICTURES Sharing
picture files
AMIGA_PORT New port available for
Amiga
DECSTATION Problems running on
DECstations
INFRARED Using Radiance in infrared
spectrum
SPECULARITY_BUG Bug in
specular highlights of 2.0
VIEW_INFO Getting view information
from files
BACKGROUND_COLOR Changing the
background color
UPFRONT_TRANSLATOR Translator
now available for Alias UpFront!
SCENE_FLATTENING Flatting
Radiance scene descriptions
CYLINDER SOURCES What kind of
cylinder may be a light source?
GETTING STARTED Documentation
and modeling without CAD
NUMERICAL OUTPUT Calculating
point illuminances
PCOMPOS Overcoming pcompos input limits
USER INTERFACE Advice on
creating a user interface
OCONV SET OVERFLOW What
causes "set overflow" error in oconv?
HEIGHT FIELDS How to use gensurf
to create height fields
COMPILATION QUESTIONS Problems
compiling on NeXT and with GNU-C
ANIMATION SPLINES Using Catmull-Rolm
splines for camer animation
RA_PICT Transferring output of ra_pict
to Macintosh
LIGHT SOURCES Problems with
light sources
HARTMANN CONSTANT What is it?
SPOTLIGHTS Questions about
spotlight type
VIDEO Simulating video photography with
Radiance
INTERREFLECTION Diffuse
interreflection accuracy
PENUMBRAS Generating accurate
penumbras
HEIGHT_FIELDS Generating colored
height fields
INSTANCES Octree instancing problems
CONSTANTS Constant expressions in
.cal files
IMAGES Image formats, gamma correction,
contrast and colors
GENERAL Some general questions about
global illumination and rendering
TEXDATA Using the texdata type for
bump mapping
CSG Using antimatter type for destructive
solid geometry
SKY SOURCES AND RGB Dealing with the sky
and what is RGB, anyway?
CAD TRANSLATORS How to get to
Radiance from CAD systems
WIREFRAME Generating wireframe
renderings w/o CAD
SHARED IMAGES Some pictures to share
by J. Mardaljevic
SENSITIVITY RUNS Ambient (-a*)
parameters and accuracy
USING BRDF DATA How to apply BRDF data
in Radiance
IES SOURCES The standard IES format and
source library
RPICT PARAMETERS A couple questions
answered re. rpict
EXTENDING RADIANCE How to add
materials/surfaces to Radiance
NEW BRTDFUNC AND NEON An extended
reflectance type and neon lights
LIGHT SOURCE ACCURACY Near-field
accuracy test of light sources
BRIGHTNESS MAPPING Going from
simulation to display
PARALLEL RADIANCE AND ANIMATIONS
New features of 2.3 and animation
AMIGA PORT Reorganized Amiga port
PVALUE Getting values from pictures
BACKGROUND COLOR Setting the
background in a scene
DEPTH OF FIELD Simulating depth of
field
A COMPANY CALLED RADIANCE Not mine
-- someone else's!
BRIGHTNESS MAPPING Mapping luminance
to display values
LIGHTING CALCULATIONS Lighting and
daylighting questions
SPECULAR APPROXIMATION Fresnel
approximation changes
MEMORY USAGE Memory used by rpict and
oconv
SGI GAMMA Correct gamma setting on Silicon
Graphics
PROGRAM NAMING Radiance program name
collisions
RVIEW SURFACE NORMALS Learning about
surface normals in rview
WATER Modeling water
STAR FILTER Using pfilt star filter in
animations
GLOW Details on glow type definition
TMESH2RAD New triangle mesh converter
LUMINAIRE MODELING Modeling unusual
luminaire geometry
GENSKY Getting gensky to mimic a
measured sky
COMPILE PROBLEMS ANSI-C compilation
trauma
GLASS BRICKS Modeling glass bricks
AMBIENT VALUES Setting the ambient
value (-av parameter)
LOCK MANAGER Problem with rpiece/rpict on
some machines
SPECKLE Source of image speckle
OBJVIEW Using objview to look at a
single object
CSG Constructive Solid Geometry (not)
RAD PROBLEMS Strange behavior with rad
program
NOISE_FUNCTIONS Fractal vs.
Perlin noise functions
DAYLIGHTING Various
daylight-related topics
PATTERNS Mapping patterns onto
surfaces
AMBIENT_FILES Using ambient files
VIEW_ANGLES Computing -vh and -vv
parameters
INTERACTIVE_WALKTHROUGHS
Generating interactive walkthroughs
SPECTRAL_COLORS Multi-spectral
sampling
X11_ERROR Rview "cannot open
command line..."
TRANS_MATERIAL Setting
parameters for "trans" type
PARTICIPATING_MEDIA Smoke
and fog simulation
MATERIALS Several related materials
questions
DAYLIGHT CALCULATIONS -
Daylight and sky simulation
RADIANCE PORTS - Ports to the
Amiga and Macintosh
RENDERING PARAMETERS -
Q&A on rpict and rad parameters
SGI BUG - Core dumps on IRIX 5.x
RADIANCE VS. POV AND RENDERMAN -
Crude analysis of program diff's
MIRROR ABUSE - What happens in
a perfect funhouse?
RETROREFLECTIVE SURFACES
- Modeling retroreflection
COLOR AND REFLECTANCE- CIE ->
RGB and reflectance models
GEOMETRIC MODELERS - What
to use with Radiance?
LENSES - Correct modeling of caustics
HERMITE CUBIC FUNCTIONS - How
to specify Hermite curves
AMBIENT BOUNCES - Sorting
out some test results
BUMP MAPS - Converting
height-field to texdata
IRRADIANCE GRADIENT CALCULATION
ILLUMINATION MAPS - Applying
Radiance results to polygons
REFLECTION MODEL -
Understanding Radiance's reflection model
DESIGN WORKSHOP - Using
DesignWorkshop as input to Radiance
MODELING STARS - Modeling a
starry sky
SAVING UNFILTERED PICTURE WITH RAD
- Tricks and changes
DEBUGGING FUNCTION FILES -
How to debug .cal files
ANIMATION FEATURES (LACKING)
- What Radiance can and cannot do
ANTIMATTER MODIFIER LOOPS -
"possible modifier loop" error
MODELING SEMITRANSPARENT
LIGHT SHELF - Using prism and mirror types
MATERIAL MIXTURES - Modeling
inhomogeneous materials
RADIANCE VS. POV-RAY -
Detailed comparison between these packages
PHOTOMETRIC UNITS AND COLOR -
Converting to and from lighting units
GENSKY AND COLOR How to color the
sky and ground
ANIMATION Steps towards walk-through
animations
SETTINGS AND ACCURACY How
renderer settings map to accuracy
MAPPING BARK TO BRANCHES How
patterns map to cylinders
MUNGING PICTURE HEADERS How to
change the header on a picture
MODELING A LASER How to model laser
light sources
FALSECOLOR IN BLACK AND WHITE
Getting B&W display from falsecolor
COMPILE SWITCHES What are all
those things in makeall?
TRANS PARAMETERS Making sense
of trans primitive
SOLAR ECLIPSE Sampling a solar
penumbra
RETROREFLECTORS Modeling SAE
reflectors
OPACITY MAPPING - using mixfunc
to make holey materials
RPIECE - best use questions for parallel
rendering
3D STUDIO - translating from 3D
Studio to Radiance
COMPUTING REFLECTANCES -
what is the total reflectance of a material?
RTRACE QUESTIONS - using the
-I option and computing radiosities
PROCEDURAL TEXTURES -
displacement mapping and efficiency issues
MIST - questions about the new mist type
MKILLUM QUESTIONS - how best
to apply mkillum to daylighting
COLORED LIGHT SOURCES -
accounting for colored light sources
PDFBLUR - depth of field blurring
PERSPECTIVE VIEW DISTORTION -
simulating a view camera
PHOTOMETRICS - entering photometry
RADIANCE LIMITATIONS - internal
calculation limits
SIMULATING DYNAMIC RANGE - dealing
with scenes with high dynamic range
CALCULATING ILLUMINANCE -
calculating individual illuminance values
ARCHICAD TO RADIANCE - converting
from ArchiCAD
INPUT LANGUAGE BASICS - modifiers in
scene descriptions
GLARE CALCS WITH ADELINE - computing
discomfort glare
RADIANCE AND RED HAT LINUX - using
Radiance under Linux
INSTANCES AND OCONV - using the
"instance" primative
STAR PATTERNS - simulating star patterns
with pfilt
CONVERTING TO 8-BIT COLOR DEPTH - image
format conversion
RUNNING OUT OF RAM WITH RVIEW - use
rpict instead
PCOND -H VERSUS XIMAGE -E HUMAN -
differences between tone mappings
RADIANCE ON MACHTEN (POWERMAC UNIX) -
using a Mac for Radiance
OPTIMIZING OCONV (DENSE OCTREES) -
overcoming limitations
HINTS FOR BEGINNERS - getting
started with a Radiance model
PERSPECTIVE AND PARALELL VIEW
CORRESPONDENCE - what's the difference?
PROBLEM WITH PENUMBRAS - penumbra
appearance (soft shadows)
RPIECE AND PARALELL PROCESSING -
running Radiance on a Cray
GROUND PLANE ILLUMINANCE (AND AN
ERRATA) - how to compute it
PCOND PROBLEMS (ERRATA AND PATCH AVAILABLE)
- fixes for early pcond version
LATEST PATCH FILES AVAILABLE - 3.1.4 and
3.1.5 patch files
AUTOCAD AND DXF TRANSLATORS - torad
and plug-in
RADIANCE FOR WINDOWS NT - will it ever
happen?
LIGHTS INSIDE BOXES WITH SMALL HOLES
- oddball modeling problem
USING MKILLUM FOR SIDELIGHTED OFFICE -
how it's done
LARGE AREA SOURCE GLARE CALCULATIONS
- findglare references
PROCEDURAL MODELING WITH GENSURF -
when to use it
AQUARIUM ANALYSIS - a model for the
fishes
MODELING WIRE MESH - modeling a screen
SPECULAR LIGHT SHELF - modeling a
light shelf with a mirror
'EXPOSING' IMAGES FOR INDOOR AND OUTDOOR
BRIGHTNESSES - using pcond
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