new build target 'vcproj' - generate Visual C++ Studio project files; fix GCC warnings in intersect_packet()

build script: updated for latest SCons, moved config.h to build/, help and clean targets does not run configure any more, fixed GCC check, added check for zlib

add sections about demos to README update doxygen comments

added bench.py demo which prints tree build and render times added Vertex to python binding, NormalVertex is now its subclass

added Python binding for material.h classes added raytracermodule.h header file for declarations updated car.py demo added texture.py demo (based on spheres_glass.py) all remaining 'centre' changed to more common 'center' added some more const's to material.h

build script fixes, add ldflags build option update and enhance demos fix bug in 4x grid oversampling warn if writePNG called while compiled without libpng make shapes in ShapeList const and add many other const needed due to snowball effect slightly optimize Camera::makeRayPacket using _mm_shuffle_ps make Vector SIMD vectorization disabled by default (causes problems) fix bug in implicit reflection of transmissive surfaces, when surface's reflection parameter is set to zero

update README update Doxygen docs scons option 'msvc' changed to 'mingw' as msvc is default and mingw must be turned on explicitly

more build script tuning make all float constants single precision solve many warnings from msvc and gcc with various -W... flags add common.cc file for dbgmsg() function witch apparently cannot be inlined fix python module building with msvc, add manifest file handling remove forgotten RenderrowData class add stanford models download script for windows (.bat)

add MSVC compiler support, make it default for Windows new header file simd.h for SSE abstraction and helpers add mselect pseudo instruction for common or(and(...), andnot(...)) replace many SSE intrinsics with new names new MemoryPool class (mempool.h) for faster KdNode allocation remove setMaxDepth() from Octree and KdTree, make max_depth const, it should be defined in constructor and never changed, change after building tree would cause error in traversal modify DefaultSampler to generate nice 2x2 packets of samples for packet tracing optimize Box and BBox::intersect_packet add precomputed invdir attribute to RayPacket scons build system: check for pthread library on Windows check for SDL generate include/config.h with variables detected by scons configuration move auxiliary files to build/ add sanity checks add writable operator[] to Vector

packetize Phong shader new scons config options: simd=(yes|no) - allow/suppress explicit SSE force_flags=(yes|no) - force use of specified flags instead of autodetected profile=(yes|no) - enable gcc's profiling (-pg option) check for pthread.h header, don't try to build without it add fourth Vector3 component for better memory aligning rename Vector3 to Vector partialy SSE-ize Vector class (only fully vertical operations) build static lib and python module in distinctive directories to avoid collision of library file names on some platforms