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PlanarRad documentation
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`PlanarRad <https://github.com/catchSheep/PlanarRad>`_ is free software for modelling light in natural waters or other homegenous scattering and absorbing media. It is similar to the commercial software HydroLight and was released under the GNU GPLv3.0 in 2010 by John Hedley. Since 2017 John Hedley is the maintainer of HydroLight and no longer maintains PlanarRad.

.. toctree::
   introduction
   installation and usage/installation
   installation and usage/windows_install
   installation and usage/Getting started with PlanarRad
   installation and usage/building the hydrolight comparison document
   installation and usage/usage
   installation and usage/General scattering and absorbing media
   installation and usage/creating_BRDF_bottom_boundary
   installation and usage/BRDF_isotropic
   misc/previous_versions
   misc/publications
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