From: bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning) Subject: Re: Radiance on Linux? Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 05:17:07 GMT
In article <1993Feb17.232601.27422@netcom.com> doni@netcom.com (Donald R. Ingenito) writes:
>
> Has anyone had success porting the Radiance radiosity package
>to linux? I gave it a shot but rview and rtrace binaries would just
>crap out with floating point errors. rpict might actually have worked,
>I can't quite recall. My hacking skills were pretty thin at the time
>(and not much has changed :-)), and I couldn't get em working.
>
> Anyway I'm gonna give it another shot, but was hoping someone
>else might have already done it. If so I'd be real keen to get the
>diffs.
>
> By the way, the Rad radiosity binary compiles out of the box
>as I recall. It's pretty good too, but with the most godawful input
>format. Still, in conjunction with the Radiance input filter I managed
>to get a handle on it. The internal raytracer allows some pretty neat
>stuff.
>
> If you think those puny raytracers aren't giving you computer
>enough of a work out try it out :-).
>
> Thanks
I tried to port Radiance, and made some headway until I ran headlong into
floting point exceptions... and I ran out of time to play with it. I will
try to re-compile it with the 4.3 libc & gcc 2.33 as I suspect that some
of the floating point problems may disappear with the latest libc.
Bill