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- .TH RADFILTER(1)
- .SH NAME
- radfilter - a filter to convert
- .I Radiance
- input scene to the scene description understood by
- .I Rad.
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .B "radfilter \[ options \]"
-
- ex: radfilter -n 1000 < room.rad > room.dat
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .I radfilter
- reads-in a
- .I Radiance
- scene description file from standard input and writes to
- standard output
- a scene description in
- .I rad
- input format.
- .SH OPTIONS
- .BI "\-n patches."
- This option specifies the total number of patches the scene
- description will have. No actual breakup of primitive surfaces
- is done. Instead a n x n grid structure is specified with each
- surface where n represents the number of subdivisions of along
- u and v surface parametric space of the surface. The number n
- is arrived at by a very simple computation.
- The total surface area of the all the
- geometric primitives is computed. The approximate area of a
- patch is computed by dividing the total area by the number of
- patches. Each geometric primitive is assigned a breakup number
- by the area of the primitive per approximate area of the
- patch.
-
- .BI "\-s."
- This option forces the filter to create the output file with special
- view parameters. Default view parameters are simple perspective
- parameters. For more detail see 'input.format.doc' in the directory
- distrib/radiosity/doc.
- .PP
- .I Note :
- It must be kept in mind that
- .I Rad
- supports a very limited number of surface properties, such as
- diffuse and mirror surfaces for reflection and diffuse
- surfaces for emission. So all the
- .I Radiance
- surface properties are approximated to one of
- these few and hence the scene generated by the filter may be
- completely different as far as the surface properties are
- concerned.
- However, all the surface geometries are supported.
- It can be understood from the earlier description that for
- subdivision purpose each primitive is assumed to be a
- parametric surface. As it is difficult to find a precise
- parametric definition of an arbitrary polygon all polygons
- with more than four edges are left undivided, that means, an
- 1 x 1 grid structure is specified for such surfaces.
- .SH AUTHOR
- Sumant N. Pattanaik
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- rad(1)
-