I see three topics there:
Image viewer
Do we actually have another option for that on Windows?
What does OpenStudio use?
On a side note: The next Gimp version (3.10, currently in beta as
3.9.2) should be able to open HDR files. Though I suspect it will
not include the tonemapping algorithms or other analysis
functionality that we need here.
Second side note: I just saw that the NREL binary package still
has its image files as *.pic instead of *.hdr, is this deliberate?
Preview renderer
First I'll have to try and get Winrview running again...
Once we know it actually still works, I think Rob will be in the best
position to make a judgement on which one (or which combination) fits
the purpose best, and will be easier to grow more functionality with
in the future.
I never looked at that "driver/output device" mechanism very closely.
I think that in those cases where the "device" is actually a seperate
program, whichever rvu executable got invoked first with that option
will just hand over the job to its named sibling (that seems to be
how qtrview works on unix right now). Unless I'm missing some detail,
I don't think that will be a problem, even if there will probably be
only one device available on Windows for now.
Test suite unification
I think that one better goes into a seperate thread.
-schorsch
Am 2016-03-16 17:00, schrieb Rob Guglielmetti:
Agreed, this is awesome, even if it means turning away from qtrvu. Qt
is a rather onerous dependency, especially to support just one program
in all of Radiance. Most of what Schorsch has to say here is sailing
over my head, but I'm happy to help update the CMake build system to
support whatever ends up getting added and/or dropped here.
Same for testing; any tests for scons should probably be "ported" to
CMake and vice versa, assuming each testing framework has the the
other's ability...
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Gregory J. Ward
<gregoryjw...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
It would be great if you guys could pool resources and decide which
tool to advance as the standard Radiance picture viewer for Windows.
Then, we could re-introduce it to the source tree and keep it up to
date in future releases. Likewise for rvu, which I would prefer to
be a driver connected using the existing call mechanism.
Cheers,
-Greg
From: Georg Mischler <schor...@schorsch.com>
Subject: Re: [Radiance-dev] Winrview and Winimage sources
Date: March 16, 2016 4:59:48 AM PDT
Just shows that I've been away from Radiance for too long, and
didn't
follow closely enough what other people are doing.
RadDisplay looks very nice and useful! That's the direction I
wouldd have
liked to take the old viever in Rayfront (given the time I didn't
have).
But my ignorance was only a minor point in the current discussion.
The real question was if it would be interesting to have a native
viewer
for Windows in the Radiance source repository and distribution.
Everybody else has ximage, but Windows users need to find an
external
solution to even just look at a picture. This is about providing
the
most elementary basics, and not about competing with other
people's
more advanced tools.
Winimage is very simple, and still needs fixing for robustness.
It is designed to:
* display hdr pictures
* offer simple analysis (by calling falsecolor and friends)
* store images in a small number of other formats
After I tweaked the sources a bit to conform to the current C++
standards,
it currently builds with both Visual Studio 2015 and SCons.
It has no thirdparty dependencies at all.
The only "basic" feature currently missing is displaying luminance
values
by picking or hovering over the picture. I haven't checked yet how
easy
it would be to add this, but I expect someone would find a
solution.
-schorsch
Am 2016-03-16 09:18, schrieb Marija Velickovic:
Hi,
There is our tool RadDisplay, which shows values when mousing
over
image.
On site there is rather old version of tool, but still does basic
image exploration
http://deluminaelab.com/en/raddisplay_details.html [1]
[2]
We are preparing new version of web site, and have in some plan
to
release newer version of RadDisplay soon.
Marija
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Randolph M. Fritz
<rmfri...@gmail.com> wrote:
"I miss being able to get luminance/radiance values by mousing
over
the image, though."
Sigh. "If we had..."
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