1.
Platforms, price, and
supplier/creator
o Unix, Windows, Mac OS, Amiga
o Freeware
o Craig E. Kolb and Rod Bogart: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~cek/rayshade
2.
Applications
o
Rayshade is a 3D
rendering tool which main function is to read a multi-line ASCII file
describing a scene to be rendered and produce a file containing the ray traced
image
o
It is used by
universities for teaching ray tracing, also used for research on rendering and
object generation
3.
Web Resources
o Official website: http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/~cek/rayshade
o User’s guide and manual: http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/~cek/rayshade/doc/guide/guide.html