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POV-Ray Scene Description

Quick Info

Persistance of Vision (PoV) is a freeware raytracer. It accepts ascii files written in it's own scene description language, and renders them to truecolor images of great quality. Since the source code is available, PoV has been ported to almost all Operating Systems. If you'd like to render some images with PoV, but don't want to learn the description language, you should try Breeze Designer (Homepage, Download), a 3D modeling program.

Information on PoV-Ray, sample images and links can be found on the Persistance of Vision Homepage.

Quick Info:

Name: POV-Ray Scene Description
Type: 3D Description Language
Extension: POV, INC
Native Application: Persistance of Vision Raytracer
Specification: Included in the PoV-Ray documentation
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Alexander Krauss