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4.1 Introduction
Welcome to POV-Ray 3.5 for Mac OS! This software is called a ray tracer. It may be a little different from other
3-D software you are used to, but you will soon find that the images and movies you can create with POV-Ray can rival
those commercial packages costing thousands of dollars! POV-Ray reads a text file that describes the objects and
lighting in a scene, and it generates an image of that scene from the view point of a camera, also described in the
text file. The creation of these images and animations by ray tracing is not a fast process by any means, but it
produces very high quality images with realistic reflections, shading, textures, perspective, and other effects. This
program is Copyrighted Freeware, which means you may use it for free, but it does have special restrictions on how you
can modify it or redistribute it. For more information on the usage and distribution policies of POV-Ray, please see
POVLEGAL.DOC included with this distribution. Section Contents
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