Terragen

Now that I've finished my recent assignment here's anther link.

Terragen is a free photorealistic landscape rendering program that allows you to create images like these.

You can create image sequences of flyby's using a second free piece of software that's designed to work with Terragen. It's called Camera Path Editor.

Moreover, using a stereoscopic add on, this user created a 3D flyover of Mt St Helens.
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When viewing, watch the video crosseyed so the pictures overlap, similar to those fractal 3D images that were so popular a few years ago.