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Hey, it sounds like you've done all your homework! Your routine should be great fun and a useful tool. Dispite the "fad" appearance, there is still a lot of interest in stereograms. I make some customized for special occasions – with people's names, etc. My 12-year-old son has made some for gifts at school and even sold a few. A seamless output thru 3DS would make this easier. Here's a deal for you: if it is ready sometime before Siggraph, I'll be glad beta test it for you and still pay for it – how about that? >>z-buffer, limited improvement… My thoughts on z-buffer were based primarily on the potential ease of use, not necessarily image improvement. With the atmosphere/fog method, you have to specifically set the lighting and materials in the before rendering a source image. By using the z-buffer, you could create a SIS without changing anything in the scene. Please correct me if I'm "foggy" on this. <g> >>on-screen previews… I actually had two things in mind here. First, since you are in fact texture based, I would like to see a way to view, adjust, and edit the texture bitmaps. I spent a lot of time in an external program adjusting bitmaps. If you provided a visual means to scale, and select a strip from a bitmap it would make things easier. In SIS utopia, a simple paint option [have you seen MeshPaint?!] would allow quick adjustment of a bitmap. This is not a real problem for me, personally, since I have a second networked machine for my bitmap editing, but would be a useful feature in general. (and a pain to implement!) Second, I was thinking of a way to view the completed result without having to use Render/View/Image. Now that I know your routine is an IXP, this should be automatic. Your routine sounds great! And your sharware target fits my philosophy that many things in life are worth a considerable effort even without a promise of getting rich. <gasp! – heresy!> Best of wishes to you.