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New Product Announcement! ————————- Virtual Reality Laboratories, Inc., publishers of Distant Suns, proudly announce the release of Vista. Vista is a unique landscape generation program which can use United States Geological Survey Digital Elevation Mapping data to produce realistic looking 3 dimensional landscapes. It produces output either as IFF HAM, or Turbo Silver Object. Vista also has a feature that allows the user to generate random 'fractal' landscapes. It comes complete with 8 data sets, including DEM data for Olympus Mons on Mars. At finest resolution, the 3-D picture contains 133000 polygons, which provides gorgeous realism, bordering on surrealism. List price is $99.95.