I’ll keep an eye out, should this be added to the standard palette of
views in the source. I think it’s pretty easy to add it to the Qt rvu...

On 1/8/17, 10:18 AM, "Gregory J. Ward" <gregoryjw...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi Victor (& Nathaniel),
>
>
>I am happy to take a look at the code and see how much effort it would be
>to integrate.  I have a question first, however.
>
>
>Is the "equirectangular" view useful for anything less than a full
>panorama?  Would people want to use it for smaller/different views, or do
>you always set vertical to 180° and horizontal to 360° in every
>application?
>
>
>If you only use this view for one purpose, then I wonder if it is really
>worth having a view implemented in Radiance, which needs to handle every
>possible setting correctly.  Also, I wonder in such a case if you have
>tested every possible (legal) setting?
>
>
>Cheers,
>-Greg
>
>
>From:
>Victor LRG <rio...@gmail.com>
>Date:
>January 8, 2017 3:49:00 AM PST
>
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>
>
>Nathaniel,
>
>
>So far my implementation the equirectangular view seems to work. The only
>part that I have not touched for full support is util/rpiece.c because I
>don't use it very often. You can also create an equirectangular view
>through other routes, but I find having
> it inside the code faster and more convenient.
>
>
>I'm happy to share it. Personally, I think it would be useful to
>incorporate it into the main distribution, but that's a question for Greg.
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>Victor Lopez-Rioboo Gil
>
>
>
>
>On 7 January 2017 at 18:42, Nathaniel Jones
><nathaniel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Hi Victor,
>
>
>I'm considering implementing equirectangular view for some of my own
>work, and before I start, I was wondering what the state of your
>implementation is and whether you might share it. Also, is this something
>that might work its way into the main Radiance
> distribution?
>
>
>Happy new year,
>
>
>Nathaniel
>
>
>On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Victor LRG
><rio...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Rob,
>
>
>I have tried the last official release, so just 5.0. I'll try 5.0.a.12 to
>see what happens. I have used the NREL Windows installers before and I
>had no issues.
>
>
>The reason I wanted to compile Radiance myself is that I was playing
>around with the source code and I wanted to try the changes. So far I
>have incorporated an equirectangular view to rpict (see Radiance General
>October 2016 Creating new view types for
> Radiance) and an additional option for pextrem. They do seem to work
>fine in Linux, but unfortunately I not always have access to a Linux
>machine. Therefore, it would be great to be able to compile it for
>Windows.
>
>
>I'll have a look at the link to the commit. For now a was using the
>CMakeLists.txt that came with the source code package with the following
>modifications:
>
>
>cmake_policy(SET CMP0045 OLD)
>
>SET(CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH “C:/Qt/5.7/msvc2015_64/lib/cmake/Qt5Widgets”)
>SET(TIFF_INCLUDE_DIR “C:/Program Files (x86)/GnuWin32/include”)
>
>
>
>I'll try using the CMake/MSVC/libtiff/Qt versions you suggest to see if
>that makes a difference.
>
>
>Many thanks,
>
>
>Victor
>
>
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>
>
>
>
>
>On 22 December 2016 at 14:39, Guglielmetti, Robert
><robert.guglielme...@nrel.gov> wrote:
>
>What¹s the vintage of the source code? There were a couple of minor
>patches to the 5.0 official release (Mid-September), and the last tag that
>builds for Windows for me is the 'NREL 5.0.a.12¹ tag:
>
>https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/releases/tag/5.0.a.12
>
>
>You could try the Windows installers we have, which seem to be working:
>
>https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/releases/download/5.0.a.6/radiance-5.0.a.
>6
>-win64.exe 
><https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/releases/download/5.0.a.6/radiance-5.0.a
>.6-win64.exe>
>https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/releases/download/5.0.a.6/radiance-5.0.a.
>6
>-win32.exe 
><https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/releases/download/5.0.a.6/radiance-5.0.a
>.6-win32.exe>
>
>I also Œget¹ wanting to roll your own, though. Again you¹d need to make
>sure your source aligns with this commit, or earlier:
>https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/commit/0c842736bf2b0908ba0ea42963ea8f4680
>c
>d1fc5 
><https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/commit/0c842736bf2b0908ba0ea42963ea8f468
>0cd1fc5>
>
>And for the record, that NREL Windows build used Cmake 3.3.2, MSVC 12
>2013, a libtiff I rolled myself with 4.0.4-beta, and Qt5.3.
>
>The NREL packages aren¹t bulletproof, I¹m finding, but xform and oconv
>seem to work fine. It¹d be potentially mutually beneficial for you to try
>the NREL package on your input and see what happens. Or, send me your test
>input and we can go from there.
>
>- Rob
>
>
>On 12/22/16, 5:15 AM, "Victor LRG" <rio...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Dear all,
>>
>>I amtrying to compile Radiance 5R0 for Windows using Cmake 3.7.1 x86 and
>>MVSC 2015 v14 with libtiff 3.8.2 and qt-x86-2.0.4. The compilation
>>finished with no errors (although some 1700 warnings), but when I am
>>trying a simple test
>> I get the following error with ovonv: fatal - (!xform
>>objects/cage_sphere2.rad): bad arguments for polygon "311s1m134f". This
>>object has the following description, which seems right to me:
>>
>>
>>cage_sphere polygon 311s1m134f
>>0
>>0
>>9 -0.833925170898 0.506038208008 0.096073600769
>>   -0.819481933594 0.473128112793 0.0903565139771
>>   -0.853187255859 0.492587890625 0.0980178833008
>>
>>
>>
>>In VS I can see the following warnings regarding oconv and xform:
>>
>>
>>C4273 'erf': inconsistent dll linkage
>>C4273 'erfc': inconsistent dll linkage
>>
>>
>>
>>They both refer to rtmath.h file, which I guess they should refer to
>>erf.c as well? Actually, this warning also appears for most projects.
>>I've compiled and used the same package in linux before with no problem.
>>
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>
>>Victor Lopez-Rioboo Gil
>>
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