Why use Rayshade?

• Nice previewing options.
• Can use GIL images for texture mapping, using gil2rle
• Can use rendered image with GIL, using rle2gil
• We've got source code! And it's not hard to follow
• Generating stereo pairs is trivial, and you can get ``ground truth'' output automatically
• Easy to restrict the image area you want to generate, and piece together bits and pieces.
• Growing user community (about 150 on rayshade-users list) (email rayshade-request@cs.princeton.edu to join the list)
• It's free!

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