RHINFO(1) General Commands Manual RHINFO(1)NAME
rhinfo - print information about a RADIANCE holodeck file
SYNOPSIS
rhinfo input.hdk
DESCRIPTION
Rhinfo reads the RADIANCE holodeck file input.hdk and writes out the header and section information, including the grid sizes, number of
beams and a histogram of samples/beam for each section.
EXAMPLE
To print the header and section information from scene1.hdk:
rhinfo scene1.hdk
AUTHOR
Greg Ward Larson
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This work was supported by Silicon Graphics, Inc.
SEE ALSO getinfo(1), rhcopy(1), rholo(1), rhoptimize(1)RADIANCE 1/15/99 RHINFO(1)
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RHOPTIMIZE(1) General Commands Manual RHOPTIMIZE(1)NAME
rhoptimize - optimize beam locations in holodeck file
SYNOPSIS
rhoptimize [ -u ] src_holo [ dest_holo ]
DESCRIPTION
Rhoptimize optimizes beam positions and eliminates fragment waste in the holodeck file src_holo, writing the result to dest_holo, or back
into src_holo if only one argument is given. This may improve rendering speed on large holodecks, which tend to have widely dispersed beam
positions that cause delays due to long file seeks. It may also reduce the size of the file, since large holodecks become fragmented as
they fill up with new ray samples. (Use the rhinfo(1) program to determine holodeck file fragmentation.) The -u option adds a check to
make sure that each ray sample is unique, i.e., the same sample is never given twice. This check is usually unnecessary, but may eliminate
redundant samples from some holodeck files.
EXAMPLE
To optimize the beam order in old.hdk and write the results to new.hdk:
rhoptimize old.hdk new.hdk
To optimize beam order in scene.hdk:
rhoptimize scene.hdk
NOTES
If rhoptimize is given only one file argument, it creates a temporary file in the same directory, and moves it onto the original file once
it has successfully completed its operation. If the operation fails for some reason, the temporary file is removed and the original
holodeck is left unchanged.
This program generally takes several minutes to run and offers no progress reports.
FILES
rho????.hdk temporary file to hold new holodeck
AUTHOR
Greg Ward Larson
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This work was supported by Silicon Graphics, Inc.
SEE ALSO getinfo(1), pfilt(1), psign(1), rhcopy(1), rhinfo(1), rholo(1), rpict(1)RADIANCE 1/25/99 RHOPTIMIZE(1)
What is the point of this? Whenever I close my shell it appends to the history file without adding this. I have never seen it overwrite my history file.
# When the shell exits, append to the history file instead of overwriting it
shopt -s histappend (3 Replies)