use SSE for float to char image buffer conversion

merge pixmap handling from sampler, material.h and ccdemos's image module to new Pixmap class add check for PNG library, allow writing PNG file from a Pixmap simplify demos using new methods from Sampler and Pixmap

Sphere, Box - RayPacket intersection replace 5x oversampling with 4x uniform oversampling

BBox - RayPacket intersection clean up

implement triangle packet intersection

prepare kd-tree traversal for packet tracing (4 rays at once) RayPacket and VectorPacket structures for packet tracing remove some redundant const's

vectorize makeRayPacket() using SSE intrinsics

prepare structures for packet tracing (it's already slightly faster, even without any explicit parallelization) supply missing virtual destructors

add 2D pixmap texture class

remove forgotten noise.h includes common_ply.h: ignore invalid faces with duplicated points (this solves visual flaws in dragon model) extend loadShape for loading triangles realtime_dragon.cc demo: add kd-tree dump/load functionality, add colored perlin cloud texture

material and texture classes moved to material.(cc,h) 2D texture mappings from textures.cc polished and moved to material.h add ColourMap class and subclasses to make textures more flexible two example textures: CheckersTexture and CloudTexture (using Perlin noise)

move shapes to extra source file add serialize header and source file with common serialization functions dump/load feature for shapes and kd-tree fix few minor bugs

rewrite subsampling from old code to DefaultSampler render in phases, clean workers after each phase

kd-tree: move recursive build subroutine from KdNode to KdTree

unify capitalization of method names in C++ and Python

kd-tree traversal - avoid dynamic memory allocation use minimum storage size for KdNode (8B on 32bit cpu) vector.h - add division operator, fix semicolons

correct camera angle of view render_nff.py - polygonal patches

kd-tree building - check all axes for best split, add additional shape-bbox check extent Container bounds by Eps to fix invisible triangles on borders new Camera constructor with more intuitive lookat/up vectors fix camera axes (mirrored images) better camera angle-of-view change capitalization of addShape and addLight

simplify kd-tree building, it's also much faster now

a fix for CPU and compiler detection

move "smooth" attribute from Triangle to Material lwo reader enhancements - implement more chunk types, support for smoothing flag and SMAN (smoothing max. angle)

added detection of optimal CPU flags for both GCC and IntelC

new option to choose single or double precision floats

fixed ICC detection

basic detection of compiler (GCC or ICC) and CPU capabilities try to detect Python path in Windows and allow direct specification through build option plus other build system fixes

add Help with list of targets to SConstruct

add many SCons targets (see DEVNOTES) make automatic model downloading work again remove Makefiles -- now obsolete and hardly maintainable

more SConscript tweaking, make model preparation work again

minor SConscript tweaking

moving to SCons build system