Freestyle (software)

The program uses a shader script model inspired by the RenderMan Shading Language, allowing different shading styles to be written as a script that's interpreted at the render time. The different rendering styles are based on "style modules" that are written in Python programming language.{{cite web|title=Programmable Style for NPR Line Drawing|url=http://maverick.inria.fr/Publications/2004/GTDS04/|publisher=ACM Press|accessdate=23 June 2013|author1=Stéphane Grabli |author2=Emmanuel Turquin |author3=Frédo Durand |author4=François Sillion |date=June 2004}}

The stand-alone program, which uses OpenGL and the Qt widget toolkit, can render images based on .3ds files. The stand-alone version of Freestyle is not under active development anymore, since 2008.

Freestyle is integrated with Blender as of version 2.67.{{cite web|title=Blender 2.67: Freestyle Line Rendering Engine|url=http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.67/FreeStyle|accessdate=23 June 2013|date=May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606091728/http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.67/FreeStyle|archive-date=6 June 2013|url-status=dead}} The Freestyle version integrated with Blender is under active development.{{cite web|title=Freestyle integration into Blender|url=http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/|accessdate=23 June 2013}}

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• Aqsis
• Pixie (renderer)

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• [http://freestyle.sourceforge.net/ Official website]
• [http://sourceforge.net/projects/Freestyle Freestyle] on SourceForge.net
• [http://blendernpr.org/bnpr-exclusive-freestyle-peregrination-into-blender/ Blender NPR about Freestyle]

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