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Pixie Renderer

A free, open source, photo-realistic ray-tracing renderer for generating photo-realistic

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Pixie is a free, open source, photo-realistic ray-tracing renderer for generating photo-realistic images. Developed by Okan Arikan and George Harker from the University of Texas, Austin. Pixie is a RenderMan-like photo realistic renderer. It has been developed as a useful graphics research tool and for people who can not afford a commercial renderer. Pixie is licensed under GNU Public License. Pixie is popular with students learning the RenderMan Interface, and a suitable replacement for it. It compiles for Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix.

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