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Photorealistic rendering requires special skills to achieve, but the result is not necessarily ideal for architectural communication. The Piranesi software provides an alternative way of producing a much wider range of images from the same geometrical model. Piranesi appears to be a 2d paint program for editing raster images, but its input includes a z-buffer. This allows painting and and pasting to reflect the perspective of the image, and many other depthrelated effects. The result is a new, and enjoyable, way of producing architectural images.
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Richens, P. (1999). The Piranesi system for interactive rendering. In: Augenbroe, G., Eastman, C. (eds) Computers in Building. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5047-1_25
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