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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports.


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To navigate about this site please use the navigation links at the top of this page. If you want to download POV-Ray, please visit our download page. If you are interested in our beta-test for SMP and multi-core systems, please visit our beta-test page.


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  POV-Ray-related News  
Making of a Rose

This HD video animation by Robert Alzinger was rendered entirely with POV-Ray. It features a demonstration of several Constructive Solid Geometry techniques. See the website to view his clever presentation

[May 11, 2012] [Permalink]
Colored Leaves

Regular news group readers have already seen the colored leaves trick by Norbert Kern, so in case you missed it, here's the discussion ... there's also a sample scene file.

[May 10, 2012] [Permalink]
PoseRay Beta Release

A versatile application that should be in every POV'ers work-flow has a new beta release. It's compatible with POV-Ray 3.7 RC3, so see their website for more details.

[May 10, 2012] [Permalink]
Four POV-Ray-created Music Videos on DVD

Former POV-Ray developer Eduward Schwan has released a DVD containing four POV-Ray-generated music videos.

"Journey through four different surreal worlds, each one offering artistically-crafted computer-animated scenes, some playful, some mysterious, all thought-provoking. Each video has its own original music soundtrack composed to go hand-in-hand with the video experience. The computer-generated ray-traced videos were designed bit-by-bit (and the music note-by-note) by SchwanSongs for your enjoyment."

[June 15, 2011] [Permalink]
POV-Ray work by Holger Karsten

Long-time POV-Ray user, Holger Karsten, has recently created a blog of graphical work and experiments with POV-Ray ... [read more]

[May 31, 2011] [Permalink]
Y.A.P.R.M. 0.7.1 released

A new release of Y.A.P.R.M., "Yet Another POV-Ray Modeller", has been released ... [read more]

[March 03, 2011] [Permalink]
HTTPov updated

HTTPov, a distributed rendering system for POV-Ray which runs over HTTP, has been updated to include new features and a new Python client ... [read more]

[January 08, 2011] [Permalink]
Blender Project Needs Help

Blender Project Needs Help ... [read more]

[January 04, 2011] [Permalink]
Leveller 4.0 Available

The Leveller heightfield modeler has been updated to version 4.0 ... [read more]

[December 04, 2010] [Permalink]
LionSnake v1.7.16

New version of LionSnake ... [read more]

[November 09, 2010] [Permalink]
Penrose tessellation in POV-Ray

Maurizio Paolini and Alessandro Musesti of the Department of Mathematics and Physics, Catholic University of Brescia, Italy, have created an interesting 15 minute animation in POV-Ray showing properties of the Penrose tessellation ... [read more]

[September 06, 2010] [Permalink]
Faster CFD as Caedium goes Parallel

The latest release of Caedium (v2.2) from Symscape can now perform Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) simulations in parallel. ... [read more]

[August 10, 2010] [Permalink]
Older News

  Other items of possible interest  
Visualization Library
Visualization Library is a C++ middleware for high-performance 2D and 3D graphics applications based on the industry standard OpenGL 2.1, designed to develop portable applications for the Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems.

[June 03, 2010] [Permalink]
Jupiter Loses a Stripe
Lost: A giant belt of brown clouds big enough to swallow Earth twenty times over.

[June 03, 2010] [Permalink]
OGRE 1.7.1
Since 2001, OGRE has grown to become one of the most popular open-source graphics rendering engines, and has been used in a large number of production projects. Check out the first maintenance release to the new 1.7 stable branch codenamed Cthugha.

[June 03, 2010] [Permalink]
E-on Software Ships Vue 8.5
e-on software, maker of the leading solutions for Digital Nature, announced today the immediate availability of Vue 8.5 xStream and Infinite, its professional solutions for the creation, animation and rendering of natural 3D environments.

[June 03, 2010] [Permalink]
Solar Dynamics Observatory

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory ... [read more]

[June 03, 2010] [Permalink]
DAZ 3D-Gizmoz Introduces Digimi

Digimi the ultimate platform for generating personalized avatars. ... [read more]

[June 03, 2010] [Permalink]
OpenTK Library 1.0 RC1

The OpenTK is an advanced, low-level C# library ... [read more]

[June 03, 2010] [Permalink]
Rhino for OS X is in development

During development, pre-release Rhino OS X is free ... [read more]

[June 03, 2010] [Permalink]
SymLab RANS Flow

Symscape's commercial range of simulation products has now been expanded to include SymLab RANS Flow for the simulation of realistic (viscous) ... [read more]

[June 03, 2010] [Permalink]
 
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"My First CGSphere"

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"Thanks for all the fish"

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"Scherk-Collins sculpture"

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"Bonsai Life"

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"TopMod StarBall"

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