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1 # Category raytracer History
2
3 See `CONTRIBUTING.rst` for details of **requir
4 which **must** added in reverse chronological
5 It must **not** be used as a substitute for wr
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8
9 ## 2023-03-22 Ben Morgan (raytracer-V11-01-01)
10 - Export public compile definitions to indicat
11 "use on link" model.
12
13 ## 2023-02-06 Ben Morgan (raytracer-V11-01-00)
14 - Isolate private headers and update dependenc
15
16 ## 2022-11-25 Gabriele Cosmo (raytracer-V11-00
17 - Fixed compilation warnings for implicit type
18
19 ## 2022-11-06 John Allison (raytracer-V11-00-0
20 - Eliminate G4cerr and introduce G4warn.
21 - `#define G4warn G4cout`
22 - The above is temporary until a genuine G
23 implemented.
24 - Change G4cerr to G4warn in all cases.
25 - Change G4cout to G4warn in those cases whe
26 an error report or a warning.
27
28 ## 2022-09-03 Ben Morgan (raytracer-V11-00-04)
29 - Resolve inconsistencies in dependencies
30 - Remove inclusion of headers for unused int
31 - Remove unused dependencies
32 - Add needed G4geometrymg dependency
33
34 ## 2022-04-07 Gabriele Cosmo (raytracer-V11-00
35 - Fixed GNUmakefile and source.cmake to add re
36 "geometry/solids/CSG" and "geometry/solids/s
37 in recent development.
38
39 ## 2022-03-22 Ben Morgan (raytracer-V11-00-02)
40 - Use geant4_module_sources to add optional so
41
42 ## 2022-01-28 Ben Morgan (raytracer-V11-00-01)
43 - Replace `geant4_global_library_target` with
44 call to `geant4_add_category` to define libr
45 - Rename DLL export symbol for locality to thi
46 - Make DLL export symbol a CMake module-level
47 future modularization
48
49 ## 2021-12-10 Ben Morgan (raytracer-V11-00-00)
50 - Change to new Markdown History format
51
52 ---
53
54 # History entries prior to 11.0
55
56 18 November 2021 John Allison (raytracer-V10
57 - G4RayTracer.cc: Coverity fix: un-initialised
58
59 12 November 2021 - Ben Morgan (raytracer-V10-0
60 - Retire G4VIS_... preprocessor symbols in too
61 by obsolete GNUmake system
62
63 25 October 2021 Guy Barrand (raytracer-V10-07
64 - G4RayTracerSceneHandler.hh: to quiet g++ abo
65 using G4VSceneHandler::AddPrimitive;
66
67 30 September 2021 John Allison (raytracer-V1
68 - Remove instantiation of G4The(MT)RayTracer f
69 - G4RayTracer is/should be a "pure factory".
70 a scene handler or viewer on request. G4Th
71 only be instantiated when the viewer is in
72 - It is somewhat complicated by the need(?)
73 a singleton - is that really required? Can
74 current ray tracer? Anyway, singleton natu
75
76 24 September 2021 John Allison (raytracer-V1
77 - Make RayTracerX viewers "auto refresh".
78 - This means the ray tracer will start traci
79 (`/vis/open RayTracerX`) and on any change
80 - In the past it was thought better to refre
81 of adjusting the view first, but with the
82 view parameters of the previously existing
83 it is easy to choose a view with an OpenGL
84 the ray tracer viewer.
85 - Also, with the advent of multithreading, r
86 adjusting and re-viewing is less tedious.
87 - This only affects RayTracerX - plain RayTr
88 - You may switch this feature off with `/vis
89
90 30 June 2021 John Allison (raytracer-V10-07-
91 - Requires greps-V10-07-09, modeling-V10-07-11
92 - Revise vis models. See visualization/modelin
93 - Consequent changes:
94 o AddPrimitive(const G4Scale&) has been remo
95
96 15th April 2021 Ben Morgan (raytracer-V10-07-0
97 - Migrate to modular CMake build
98
99 20th October 2020 Jonathan Madsen (raytracer-
100 - Implemented G4RunManagerFactory::GetMasterRu
101
102 10th August 2020 John Allison (raytracer-V10-
103 - G4TheMTRayTracer.cc:
104 o Suppress printing during RayTracer run. Ke
105 printProgress, then
106 G4UImanager::GetUIpointer()->ApplyComman
107 G4UImanager::GetUIpointer()->ApplyComman
108 then restore after.
109
110 31 May 2020 Ben Morgan (raytracer-V10-06-01)
111 - Use add_definitions to set PRIVATE-level com
112 for compatibility between old and new CMake
113
114 12 December 2019 Ben Morgan (raytracer-V10-06-
115 - Cleanup CMake build, removing obsolete granu
116 explicit include_directories.
117
118 15th November 2019, Gabriele Cosmo (raytracer-
119 - Fixed cases of implicit type conversions fro
120
121 25th October 2019 Ben Morgan (raytracer-V10-05
122 - Link to X11 imported targets when building X
123
124 9th November 2018 Gabriele Cosmo (raytracer-V
125 - G4RTMessenger: fixed printout typos.
126
127 24th October 2018 John Allison (raytracer-V10
128 - G4RayTracerSceneHandler::BuildVisAttsMap:
129 o Use name,copyNo constructor of G4ModelingP
130 (The nodeID constructor was removed in mod
131
132 17th May 2018 Jonathan Madsen (raytracer-V10-
133 - updated "thread-local-static-var" model to
134 "function-returning-thread-local-static-refe
135 which fixes Windows DLL + MT
136
137 20th March 2018 Makoto Asai (raytracer-V10-04
138 - G4RayTrajectory.cc
139 o Use HyperStep of G4ParallelWorldProcess to
140 defined in a parallel world.
141 o sources.cmake and GNUmakefile are modified
142
143 7th May 2017 John Allison (raytracer-V10-03-0
144 - G4RayTracerViewer.cc:
145 o Expanded filename numbering to 4 digits, z
146 g4RayTracer.viewer-1_0000.jpeg
147 g4RayTracer.viewer-1_0001.jpeg
148 etc.
149 o Useful for producing many files for a movi
150
151 5th May 2017 John Allison (raytracer-V10-03-0
152 - Pick up vis attributes of the geometry from
153 Make a map of the vis attributes by touchabl
154 G4RayTracerSceneHandler. When a touchable is
155 Tracer, pick up the vis attributes from the
156 geometry tree. For simple use, for example
157 /vis/open RayTracer # or RayTracerX
158 /vis/drawVolume
159 /vis/viewer/flush
160 the result will be the same as before. But w
161 sub-component, for example
162 /vs/drawVolume Shape1
163 the Ray Tracer will now draw only Shape1. Th
164 follow changes made in other viewers by copy
165 the user can chose a viewing angle and zoom,
166 and colour of volumes, using, say, a Qt view
167 the effect in the Ray Tracer:
168 /vis/open RayTracer # Gets the same scene
169 /vis/viewer/copyViewFrom viewer-0 # Copie
170 /vis/viewer/set/all viewer-0 # ...co
171 /vis/viewerflush
172
173 19th February 2017 John Allison (raytracer-V1
174 - G4RTXScanner.cc:
175 o Changed back to XA_RGB_BEST_MAP. (I don't
176 but it seems OK now.)
177 - G4RayTracer.cc and G4RayTracerViewer.cc:
178 o The ray tracer pointer is now passed from
179 G4RayTracerViewer so that there is no need
180 This works for both sequential and MT mode
181 no longer has any need for special action
182 is all done in G4RayTracer.cc.)
183 o Introduced G4RayTracerViewer::Initialise.
184 jpeg for RayTracer was always 600x600.
185
186 22nd February 2017 John Allison (raytracer-V1
187 - G4RTXScanner.cc: Changed XA_RGB_BEST_MAP to
188 (It seems XA_RGB_BEST_MAP no longer availabl
189
190 31st August 2016 John Allison (raytracer-V10-
191 - Fix G4Orb and G4Ellipsoid hiding warnings.
192
193 2nd May 2016 John Allison (raytracer-V10-02-0
194 - G4RTJpegCoder.cc: Fixed gcc-6.1 warning.
195
196 2nd February 2015 Gabriele Cosmo (raytracer-V
197 - Fix to sources.cmake script to include missi
198
199 20th November 2014 Makoto Asai (raytracer-V10
200 - Fixes for Coverity.
201
202 15th November 2013 John Allison (raytracer-V0
203 - Some changes as suggested by PVS.
204 - Fixes for Coverity.
205
206 20th September 2013 Gabriele Cosmo (raytracer-
207 - Fixed GNUmakefile. Added dependency on "run"
208
209 19th September 2013 Makoto Asai (raytracer-V09
210 - Removed unused variable in G4RTPrimaryGenera
211
212 19th September 2013 Makoto Asai (raytracer-V09
213 - Both G4TheRayTracer and G4TheMTRayTracer inv
214 method to avoid unnecessary state-change han
215 - Co-working with greps-V09-06-10.
216
217 17th September 2013 Makoto Asai (raytracer-V09
218 - Introducing G4TheMTRayTracer that is multi-t
219 - Co-working with run-V09-06-100 and greps-V09
220
221 15th September 2013 Makoto Asai (raytracer-V09
222 - Move data member of G4RTSteppingAction stati
223 making G4TheRayTracer class multi-threaded.
224
225 16th June 2013 Makoto Asai (raytracer-V09-06-
226 - Make G4RayTrajectory and G4RayTrajectoryPoin
227
228 2nd December 2012 John Allison (raytracer-V0
229 - Removed NURBS and references to i_mode.
230
231 5th July 2012 Gabriele Cosmo (raytracer-V09-
232 - Explicitly use inclusion of headers for syst
233 constants, in plan to remove implicit inclus
234
235 3rd July 2012 John Allison (raytracer-V09-05
236 - Fixed some Coverity warnings.
237
238 3rd July 2012 John Allison (raytracer-V09-05
239 - Tagged a fix: uses std::sqrt.
240
241 8th June 2012 John Allison (raytracer-V09-05
242 - Shadow clean.
243
244 8th February 2012 John Allison (raytracer-V0
245 - G4RayTracerViewer.cc, G4TheRayTracer.hh/cc:
246 Adopt fix proposed by jasondet@gmail.com to
247 - G4RayTracerViewer.cc:
248 o Move window size hints to constructor from
249 NColumn/Row are never changed, even if win
250 (e.g., as a result of /vis/viewer/set/all)
251 change NColumn/Row after instantiation.
252 - G4TheRayTracer.cc:
253 o Ensure unit vector for the ray shooter. (
254 G4Exception in G4ParticleChange::CheckIt.)
255
256 7th February 2012 John Allison (raytracer-V0
257 - G4RayTracerViewer.cc:
258 o G4RayTracerViewer::SetView: Fix up-vector
259 o Move window size hints to constructor from
260 NColumn/Row are never changed, even if win
261 (e.g., as a result of /vis/viewer/set/all)
262 change NColumn/Row after instantiation.
263 - G4TheRayTracer.cc:
264 o Ensure unit vector for the ray shooter. (
265 G4Exception in G4ParticleChange::CheckIt.)
266
267 17th June 2011 Ben Morgan (raytracer-V09-04-04
268 - sources.cmake : Changed to use GEANT4_USE_RA
269
270 24th May 2011 Ben Morgan (raytracer-V09-04-03)
271 - sources.cmake : Added additional includes, d
272 to build X11 component of RayTracer, if it's
273 CMake functionality added to trunk at revisi
274
275 20th May 2011 Ben Morgan (raytracer-V09-04-02
276 - CMakeLists.txt : Added G4VIS_ALLOC_EXPORT co
277 add_definitions so it's applied to all sourc
278 don't add this definition at the visualizati
279 only raytracer uses it. It can be moved high
280
281 2nd March 2011 John Allison (raytracer-V09-04
282 - Fix bug introduced by fix to Coverity warnin
283
284 1st March 2011 John Allison (raytracer-V09-04
285 - G4RayTracerViewer::DrawView: Trap recursive
286 warning messages for each pixel when endOfEv
287 EndOfEventAction is not relevant for Ray Tra
288 time, Ray Tracer takes no notice of the scen
289 it will, but G4RayTracerViewer should still
290 calls.
291 - Fix Coverity warnings.
292
293 23, December L. Garnier
294 - GNUmakefile : Remove OpenGL/Qt stuff from Ma
295
296 27th October 2010 Gabriele Cosmo (raytracer-V
297 - Restored DLL setup as originally. Withdrawn
298
299 19th October 2010 Gabriele Cosmo (raytracer-V
300 - Replaced G4VIS_ALLOC_EXPORT flag with G4ALLO
301 symbols.
302
303 14th June 2010 Gabriele Cosmo (raytracer-V09
304 - Added missing virtual destructor to G4VRTSca
305 G4RTSimpleScanner.
306
307 30th May 2010 John Allison (raytracer-V09-03
308 - G4RayTracerSceneHandler: Added AddCompound(c
309
310 29th May 2010 John Allison (raytracer-V09-03
311 - G4RayTrajectory.hh: Added DrawTrajectory() r
312
313 15th November 2009 John Allison (raytracer-V
314 - Formal tag to record fixing of bugzilla Prob
315 o There is no change of source code.
316 o This was actullay fixed in raytracer-V09-0
317
318 21st October 2009 John Allison (raytracer-V0
319 - Added AddCompound (const G4THitsMap<G4double
320 o Prevents warnings about hiding - calls G4V
321
322 16 September 2009 John Allison (raytracer-V0
323 - Cosmetic adjustments and tagging.
324
325 19 August 2009 Laurent Garnier
326 - G4RayTracerViewer.cc, G4RayTracerXViewer.cc
327 parameters [bugzilla Problem 1072]
328
329 18 August 2009 Laurent Garnier
330 - G4RayTracerXViewer, G4RTXScanner : Fix a cra
331 new way of handling window size hints (Janua
332
333 4th April 2008 John Allison (raytracer-V09-0
334 - Fixed gcc-4.3.0 compiler warnings.
335
336 14th June 2007 John Allison (raytracer-V08-0
337 - Fixed memory leak in G4RayTracer (wrapper cl
338
339 22nd May 2007 John Allison (raytracer-V08-03
340 - Fixed for dubious ValGrind diagnostic showin
341 G4RTSimpleScanner and G4RTXScanner.
342
343 5th January 2007 John Allison (raytracer-V08
344 - Bug fix: use of window size hints.
345
346 17th November 2006 Joseph Perl (raytracer-V0
347 - Deprecate /vis/rayTracer/backgroundColour.
348 - Hasn't worked for some time anyway.
349 - Users are instead referred to /vis/viewer/se
350
351 14th November 2006 John Allison (raytracer-V
352 - Merged raytracer-V08-01-00-branch onto main
353
354 11th November 2006 John Allison (raytracer-V
355 - Followed change to G4Scene.
356
357 14th August 2006 John Allison (raytracer-V08
358 - G4RayTracerSceneHandler.cc: Added world to d
359 robustness when under control of vis manager
360
361 12th May 2006 John Allison (raytracer-V08-00
362 - SetRecomputeTransients(false).
363
364 10th May 2006 Makoto Asai (raytracer-V08-00-0
365 - Remove G4RayShooter class to Event category.
366
367 21st April 2006 John Allison (raytracer-V08-
368 - Relies on improved protection for null model
369
370 26th January 2006 John Allison (raytracer-V0
371 - G4RayTracerSceneHandler: Improved handling o
372 - G4TheRayTracer: Advance work for possible in
373 anti-aliasing. Currently no change of funct
374
375 11th January 2006 John Allison (raytracer-V0
376 - Reorganisation (needs visman-V08-00-02):
377 o Allowed multiple ray tracers.
378 o Separated out the original ray tracer into
379 used by viewers.
380 o Made G4RTMessenger a smart singleton that
381 for tracers.
382 o Caused G4RayTracer to instantiate a defaul
383 wants to use /vis/rayTracer commands witho
384 vis system (scene handlers and viewers).
385
386 4th December 2005 Makoto Asai (raytracer-V07-
387 - Correct initialization of G4RTTrackingAction
388
389 28th November 2005 Jane Tinslay (raytracer-V0
390 - Remove names of unused parameters to stop co
391
392 18th November 2005 John Allison (raytracer-V
393 - Merged in raytracer-V07-01-04 - see below.
394 - Implemented window positioning.
395
396 28th October 2005 Makoto Asai (raytracer-V07-
397 - Working tag for merging "envelope" into G4Re
398 - This tag does not contain raytracer-V07-01-0
399 already done by J. Allison but does not yet
400
401 13th October September 2005 John Allison (ray
402 (On branch raytracer-V07-01-01-branch; changes
403 need to cvs update -j raytracer-V07-01-02 -j r
404 - Migrated to <sstream>.
405 - Default background black - can be changed by
406 - GNUmakefile: Removed temporary CPPFLAGS += -
407
408 30th September 2005 Joseph Perl (raytracer-V0
409 New tag to include change Makoto made an hour
410 Change seems to just involve passing pWorld to
411
412 16th September 2005 John Allison (raytracer-V
413 (On branch raytracer-V07-01-01-branch; changes
414 - Bug fix (black holes): Made small epsilon pu
415
416 20th July 2005 John Allison (raytracer-V07-01
417 - Protected RayTracerX by G4VIS macro.
418
419 17th July 2005 John Allison (raytracer-V07-01
420 - Introduced RayTracerX. RayTracerX opens an
421 the picture, refining it gradually. Already
422 not recalculated, so it is as efficient as a
423 scan. It produces a jpeg file as well, just
424
425 11th June 2004 Gabriele Cosmo (raytracer-V06
426 - Use global flag G4VIS_ALLOC_EXPORT to export
427 Modified GNUmakefile and rearranged usage of
428
429 12th November 2003 Mark Donszelmann
430 - GNUmakefile: added Modeling/include director
431
432 6th November 2003 John Allison (raytracer-V0
433 - GNUmakefile: rationalised.
434
435 4th October 2003 Gabriele Cosmo (raytracer-V
436 - GNUmakefile:
437 o added dependency to new module "geometry/n
438 o replaced "digits+hits" with "digits_hits".
439 - Coworks with "geometry-V05-02-00" and "digit
440
441 25th September 2003 Hisaya Kurashige (raytra
442 - Modify GNUmakefile to use processes/cuts cat
443
444 18th September 2003 John Allison (raytracer-
445 - Introduced G4VRTScanner and its default conc
446 G4RTSimpleScanner. It controls the shooting
447 - Added new command /vis/rayTracer/backgroundC
448
449 4th August 2003 Makoto Asai (raytracer-V05-0
450 - Migrate to the changes with "Cuts per region
451
452 18th June 2003 Gabriele Cosmo (raytracer-V05
453 - Removed usage of G4USE_STD_NAMESPACE in G4RT
454 migration from G4std.
455
456 30th May 2003 Makoto Asai (raytracer-V05-01-
457 - Fix pedantic warning message.
458
459 11th December 2002 John Allison (vis-V04-01-
460 - Fix for SUN-CC warnings: AddThis hides the v
461 - Fix memory leak in RayTracer.
462
463 11th November 2002 Hajime Yoshida and Minamim
464 - Corrected G4RayTracer.cc devide-by-zero.
465
466 16th October 2002 John Allison (raytracer-V0
467 - Tag for changes in G4VTrajectory, etc.
468
469 22nd April 2002 John Allison
470 - Workaround for pseudo-parallel/orthogonal pr
471 perspective projection with *very* small fie
472
473 22nd Nov 2001 Gabriele Cosmo (raytracer-V03
474 - G4RTJpegMaker.cc: added check on ISO complia
475 file streamsi, to allow compilation on non-I
476
477 13th Nov 2001 Hajime Yoshida and Minamimoto
478 - Updation of G4RTJpegMaker.cc for Windows pla
479
480 14th July 2001 John Allison (raytracer-V03-0
481 - Changed some arguments in G4RayTracer.hh fro
482 G4ThreeVector& to keep Sun compiler happy.
483
484 18th May 2001 John Allison (raytracer-V03-01
485 - Removed unnecessary virtual inheritance of G
486
487 2nd May 2000 John Allison
488 - G4RayTracer: set out-of-world ray to black.
489 - G4RayTracerViewer: corrected trapping of ort
490
491 10th March 2000 Makoto Asai
492 - Added some comments for copyright notice and
493
494 24th February 2000 John Allison
495 - Added protection for null viewer in G4RTStep
496 G4RayTrajectory.cc.
497 - Corrected for zoom, etc., in G4RayTracerView
498
499 23rd February 2000 John Allison
500 - Added G4RayTracerSceneHandler and Viewer.
501 - Some modifications to other RayTracer routin
502 - (Note: headAngle still not right - ray trace
503
504 22nd February 2000 John Allison (raytracer-V0
505 - Added G4std:: in a few places to obtain ISO
506 - Change "char*" to "const char*" in G4OutBitS
507
508 22nd February 2000 Makoto Asai (raytracer-V01
509 - Change "char*" to "const char*"
510 - use g4std/fstream
511
512 17th February 2000 Makoto Asai (raytracer-V01
513 - Primary tag of sub-category
514
515 29th January 2000 Makoto Asai
516 - Introduction of G4RayTracer (visualization/R
517 - Migration of G4RayTracer
518 affected files :
519 visualization/GNUmakefile
520 visualization/management/include/MyVisMana
521 visualization/management/src/G4VisManager.
522 affected files in other directory :
523 config/G4VIS_BUILD.gmk
524 config/G4VIS_USE.gmk
525