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