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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.


  Contacting Us  

To contact us, please use the address given at the bottom of our license page. You may also wish to read our privacy policy.


  POV-Ray-related News  
POV-Ray Helps Visualize Bee Keeper Data

See this blog post to read more about how POV-Ray was used to visualize bee keeper data for Norfolk County Massachusetts.

[April 18, 2013] [Permalink]
POV-Ray, Export & View, for Mathematica

For use with Mathematica. View or animate in front-end or otherwise. Has a partially supported POV-Ray exporter. See their website for more details.

[April 06, 2013] [Permalink]
Koppi's Bullet Physics Playground

Filling containers with objects has just gotten a whole lot easier! POV-Ray users can now easily fill containers, or place many objects, with collision checking, into their scenes. The application has a rudimentary POV-Ray export feature, so some post-processing is necessary. See the website to get started!

[December 06, 2012] [Permalink]
Parallella supercomputer kickstarter nearing end

The Parallela platform seems to have potential in the future for use with raytracing as Adapteva are coming out with a double-precision version early in 2013. Given their kickstarter is approaching its end date and they are still a little bit short of their target we thought we'd mention this in case any POV users are interested in it.

Once the appropriate hardware is available the POV team will take a close look at it to see if it's a suitable target for a port of our software.

[October 25, 2012] [Permalink]
Spectral Rendering with POV-Ray

Users can now do Spectral Rendering ... [read more]

[September 27, 2012] [Permalink]
ANIMUSIC 3 kickstarter campaign in its last week

Many POV-Ray users will nevertheless be familiar with the ANIMUSIC series ... [read more]

[August 29, 2012] [Permalink]
Update of Insert Menus Add-on

The popular insert menus add-on ... [read more]

[August 17, 2012] [Permalink]
Caedium Version 4 Available

Caedium version 4 ... [read more]

[August 17, 2012] [Permalink]
Another PoseRay Update

PoseRay update ... [read more]

[July 07, 2012] [Permalink]
Making of a Rose

This HD video animation by Robert Alzinger was rendered entirely with POV-Ray ... [read more]

[May 11, 2012] [Permalink]
Colored Leaves

Regular news group readers have already seen the colored leaves trick by Norbert Kern ... [read more]

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

A PoseRay beta release

... [read more]

[May 10, 2012] [Permalink]
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  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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