The Ghost Rendering System is finally out of the gates.  This is alpha level software, so be careful.  The release provides a technology preview of the project currently codenamed "Ghost," and is aimed at testing some of the core systems including the internal rendering management and ray server.  From the welcome page:  "Ghost is a new, state of the art rendering engine that is being designed around the principles of extensibility, portability, modularity, distributability, stability, and reliability."  After seeing some of the imagery already being produced, I would like to add "quality" to that list :-)  Be sure to check out the new image in the ghost gallery.

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