POV-Ray - The Persistence of Vision Raytracer



		The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, Free Software tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports.



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		POV-Ray v3.8.0 beta tests available POV-Ray 3.8 is now in beta-test. You may obtain beta releases via our GitHub repository. Discussion regarding the betas should be directed to the beta-test group in our forums. [August 31, 2021] [Permalink] POV-Ray turns 30 30 years ago today, on July 29 1991, the first beta of what would become POV-Ray became available in the GRAPHDEV forum on CompuServe. See "The Early History of POV-Ray", "The Original Creation Message", "The Name" and "A Historic Version History" in our v3.6 documentation for more details about the early days of this project. [July 29, 2021] [Permalink] Wiki back online The POV-Wiki is now back online and is running the latest version of MediaWiki. Additionally we have restored our legacy bugtracker, which tracked issues prior to moving our source code to GitHub. [April 12, 2021] [Permalink] Forums back online Following more recovery work since the server crash we're happy to say our user forums are now back online in read-write mode. [March 28, 2021] [Permalink] Server Recovery The www.povray.org site is now back in read-write mode ... ... [read more] [March 21, 2021] [Permalink] POV-Ray Server Downtime Our server recently experienced a catastrophic hardware failure ... ... [read more] [March 15, 2021] [Permalink] Blender to Persistence of Vision New Release: Blender to Persistence of Vision ... [read more] [August 01, 2020] [Permalink] white_dune VRML/X3D editor adds POV-Ray export The folks at the open-source white_dune 3d editor project let us know that they've added POV-Ray export capability. Neat! It looks like a useful tool, definitely worth checking out. You can find their github repo here or if you prefer you can go straight to their project website for downloads. [July 23, 2020] [Permalink] Call for papers: Ray Tracing Gems Eric Haines dropped us a line to let us know that there is still time to submit papers to Ray Tracing Gems ... ... [read more] [July 01, 2018] [Permalink] POV-Ray 3.7.1 enters beta phase POV-Ray 3.7.1 has officially entered public beta testing phase. ... [read more] [January 13, 2017] [Permalink] Older News Converting POV-Ray scenes into 3D-printable STL meshes POV-Ray turns 25 (or 30) Python modeller for POV-Ray Routing problems for some users in Sweden and Finland POV-Ray 3.7 released Lathe and Prism Utility Available Viewshed Analysis with POV-Ray POV-Ray Helps Visualize Bee Keeper Data POV-Ray, Export & View, for Mathematica Koppi's Bullet Physics Playground Parallella supercomputer kickstarter nearing end Spectral Rendering with POV-Ray ANIMUSIC 3 kickstarter campaign in its last week Update of Insert Menus Add-on Caedium Version 4 Available Another PoseRay Update Making of a Rose Colored Leaves PoseRay Beta Release Four POV-Ray-created Music Videos on DVD



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