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Last update:
15/11/2006

GRAPHICS AND 3D SOFTWARE

Bryce (PC/Mac)
With an unconventional GUI and limited options for importing geo-data, Bryce nevertheless renders breathtakingly realistic 3D landscapes and animations.

World Construction Set (PC)
World Construction Set is a 3D landscape modeling, rendering and animation software.

Adobe Photoshop (PC/Mac)
The professional image-editing standard. An essential tool when working with shaded relief or any other images. Photoshop also provides a way to produce rudimentary shaded relief images from a DEM in gray scale format.

CartaPGM (Mac Photoshop Plug-In)
CartaPGM is a file format plug-in for Adobe Photoshop to read and write PGM files. The PGM file format is particularly useful for editing digital elevation models with Photoshop and rendering them in Bryce.