Rayshade is an extensible system for creating ray-traced images. It is written in C, yacc, and lex, and runs on many different platforms. More information on rayshade is available.

The most recent source distribution of rayshade can be found here.

Online rayshade resources include:

The Rayshade FTP Archives

The latest official rayshade distribution can be found as a tar archive. Also available are ports of rayshade to various platforms, example input files, and user-contributed tools and extensions.

If you have trouble using the above URLs, the archives can be accessed via anonymous ftp as graphics.stanford.edu:pub/rayshade.

The Rayshade User's Guide

A postscript version can also be found.

The Rayshade quick-reference sheet

An ASCII version is also available.

Example rayshade images

Example images from the rayshade distribution and elsewhere. A version of this page without icons can also be found.

The Rayshade Gallery

A selection of works created using rayshade. A version of the Gallery without inlined images is also available.

Rayshade Image Exhibit

Rayshade-generated images from the School of Architecture, University of New South Wales.

The rayshade-users mailing list

The mailing list provides a forum for rayshade users to trade ideas, modules, and the like. To join, send mail to rayshade-users-request@cs.princeton.edu.

The rayshade-users archive is also available for your perusal.

Notes on Rayshade

Stephen Peter's excellent notes on using rayshade, written for his architecture students. The HTML sources for these notes are also available.

Rayshade Objects Library, courtesy of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

The Utah Raster Toolkit

An image library and related tools.