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John, thank you for your rich input. it was my fault not be be more specific in my first message. All the points you mentioned are handled by my routine: >>SIRDS / texture<< What I am exactly generating is Single-Image-Stereograms (SISs) producing the textured type. I dont support Random-Dots. >>24-bit support<< Stereo.IXP will support any filetype 3DS supports, both for input and output. >>z-buffer and enhanced depth resolution<< a first version was using a 'fogged' frame input, thus using grey-scale 8-bit resolution. I am upgrading to use 3DS4's z-buffer, that passes me floating-point values. The improvement will be limited, though, by the output images' resolution, which (typically) can not resolve better than 6 bits in depth. >>animation capability<< … is automatic – you simply render a segment of frames. >>on-screen previews<< actually, I would not know how to drastically accelerate the stereogram generation process still resulting in 'visible' images, but I could think of a preview for the tiling options (texture scaling). >>fairly inexpensive<< I am targetting low shareware regions. Considering these features and the fact that you can actually _render_ your stereogram from 3D Editor, I found the IPAS solution very straight-forward and handy. Boran