- 5 May 2021
- Volume chapter corrections: Improved directional bias images
(section 5.4); corrected figures 5.23 and 5.24; added volume caustics images
(figures 5.27 and 5.28).
- 14 April 2021
- New chapter five (inserted between “Glass” and “Material
combinations”) describing the volume distribution functions. New version of the
MDL specification: 1.6.2, 5 August 2020.
- 10 January 2020
- New version of MDL specification: 1.6.1, 16
December 2019.
- 10 January 2019
- Additional techniques in the chapter on
architectural modeling (Chapter 15); improvement to diagrams; temporary
disappearance of the picture index.
- 13, 17 August 2018
- New chapter on architectural modeling;
additions to geometric profiles; improvement of picture index.
- 26-27 March 2018
- New section in the “Geometric profiles” chapter;
new picture index (Chapter 15); improved web page navigation.
- 20 March 2018
- New version of MDL specification: 1.4.3, 13
March 2018.
- 22 January 2018
- New chapter (13) on vector displacements; work
in progress.
- 14-21 August 2017
- HTML navigation improvements and bug
fixes.
- 8 August 2017
- Navigation further improved; "Last" button
renamed to "Previous" to lessen ambiguity; see "Help" page for other
additions.
- 2 August 2017
- Improvements made in browser navigation (but
Forward/ buttons still broken).
- 31 July 2017
- Chapters have been reorganized into parts to
improve overall structure; a new section (9.4.5) describes the use of
images to define bump mapping; the formatting of code comments has
been improved.
- 8 May 2017
- New chapter on the uses of the geometry field in
the material struct that enables bump and displacement mapping.
- 4 November 2016
- Further format improvements.
- 28 July 2016
- New structure for the HTML version of the
Handbook to enable better navigation and improved textual search,
including search in code examples.
- 14,18 April 2016
- Various improvements made and typos
corrected based on an internal review.
- 13 April 2016
- Plastic chapter complete.
- 4 April 2016
- New chapters on examples of plastic (incomplete)
and glass; an introductory chapter on user-defined functions.
- 21 February 2016
- Chapters separated into separate HTML pages;
navigation links; search feature.
- 30 September 2015
- Added Chapter 5 on fabric.
- 7 August 2015
- Added Chapter 4 on BSDF combinations; reorganized main
page with one HTML page per chapter; improved formatting of MDL
technical introduction.
- 28 March 2015
- Added link to the recording of the GTC 2015
presentation about the MDL Handbook; fixed typos in the Handbook.
- 20 March 2015
- Initial MDL Handbook website release for GTC 2015.
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