From owner-globillum@imag.fr Fri Oct 20 20:14:24 1995 Return-Path: owner-globillum@imag.fr Received: from isis.imag.fr (isis.imag.fr [129.88.31.24]) by cs.tut.fi (8.6.12/8.6.4) with ESMTP id UAA05746 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 20:14:21 +0200 Received: from idefix.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (idefix.cs.kuleuven.ac.be [134.58.40.4]) by isis.imag.fr (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA18553 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 18:03:54 +0100 Received: from flater.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (philippe@flater.cs.kuleuven.ac.be [134.58.45.35]) by idefix.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA22061 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 18:03:32 +0100 Received: (from philippe@localhost) by flater.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA10468; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 18:03:28 +0100 From: Philippe Bekaert Message-Id: <199510201703.SAA10468@flater.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> Subject: initial release of our radiosity code available To: globillum@imag.fr Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 18:03:27 +0100 (MET) Cc: Philippe.Bekaert@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Philippe Bekaert) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1814 Status: RO Dear Globillumers, I'd like to announce the initial release of the radiosity code developed in our research group (see http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/cwis/research/graphics/graphics-E.shtml). Features: --------- - It does both shooting (progressive refinement radiosity) and gathering. - Hierarchical refinement if you like (for both shooting or gathering) - Importance-driven if you like (for both shooting or gathering) - Formfactor computation by numerical integration. The ray-casting for visibility determination is accelerated by using hierarchical bounding boxes, shadow caching and shaftculling. - handles both triangles and (convex) quadrilaterals. - T-vertex elimination and many other rendering options. - reads Greg Wards MGF scene description files (see http://radsite.lbl.gov/mgf/HOME.html) - a more or less nice user interface and interactive view manipulation. - ... It requires - Motif, - Silicon Graphics' Iris GL (or a clone) or PEX - an ANSI-C compiler (gcc 2.7.0 was used to develop it) and GNU make (or another make which offers the .include feature, unless you change the Makefiles a bit) to compile it. You can obtain this code for free on URL: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~philippe/rad.html +----------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ | Philippe Bekaert | Pracu koname presne, rychlo a dobre, ale | | Computer Graphics Research Group | potrebujeme nove stroje (We do the work | | Department of Computer Science | precisely, quick and well, but we need | | K. U. Leuven - Leuven (Belgium) | new machines) - J. Mistrik, Basic Slovak | +----------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ Philippe.Bekaert@cs.kuleuven.ac.be