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Shadow Box Images
The Viewer now has a special option that allows you to display a "Shadow Box" around the cave. With the Shadow Box options, the program draws a box around the cave and mirrors the cave on the walls of the box. The option makes it easier to see 3D aspects of the cave. The program gives lots of options for controlling which walls are mirrored and the placement of the walls.
 
Shadow Box Image of Lechuguilla Cave

Shadow Box Walls showing Grids.

This image shows the gridding capabilities in the Shadow Box feature. Grids can be placed on any wall of the shadow box. You have complete control over the fonts, colors, line properties and spacing of the grid lines. You can specify that a certain number of lines are used or that the lines are place a certain number of feet or meters apart.
 
Lechuguilla Cave with a UTM grid superimposed.
The Shadow Box walls can be removed leaving only the grids. This is useful for showing UTM and other geographic grid systems. This image show Lechuguilla Cave with a UTM grid superimposed.
 
Surface Modeling With The Shadow Box

Finally, the shadow box is useful to orient and accent terrain models.

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