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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper
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POV-Ray is a free rendering (ray-tracing) program which can generate photorealistic images, but modeling complex objects in pure POV-Ray code is cumbersome.
All the hard work is done by a program called POV-Ray (Persistence Of Vision Raytracer), a copyrighted freeware program that can create some stunning 3D images through the process of raytracing.
The display functions are greyscale previews only; it is intended that a raytracer such as the freeware POV-Ray be used to generate the final output image.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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POV-Ray (or, Persistence of Vision raytracer) is a remarkable free ray-tracing application in which photo-realistic three-dimensional scenes may be created and rendered.
POV-Ray has a built-in wood pattern that, used correctly, can produce some very realistic wood textures.
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Rob Bruff,
Nightclub Bouncer
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You know, there was a time, back in my POV-Ray days that I fancied myself a raytracer and thought I may end up at a kick-ass studio one day.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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POV Ray's primitives are supported to the extent possible.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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The terms "POV-Ray" and "Persistence of Vision Raytracer" are trademarks of the Persistence of Vision Development Team.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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POV-Ray images that were made without a modeller tend to be abstracts, with relatively few objects, which rely on complex textures, reflections and refractions to make them interesting to look at.
Beale Here are some utilities useful for those working with Heightfields (also called displacement maps or elevation maps or depth maps), especially those using the POV-Ray raytracer to render them.
POV-Ray will very likely fail to render large chunks of the part of the spline contained in such an interval.
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Keiko Miyisawa,
Receptionist
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POV-Ray support added for 3D raytracing of fractals.
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