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POV-Ray Helps Visualize Bee Keeper Data

Tue, 4 Dec 2012 18:01:07 GMT

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

POV-Ray, Export & View, for Mathematica

Tue, 4 Dec 2012 06:01:06 GMT

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.

Koppi's Bullet Physics Playground

Wed, 2 Nov 2011 06:00:09 GMT

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!

Parallella supercomputer kickstarter nearing end

Tue, 1 Nov 2011 01:01:08 GMT

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.

Spectral Rendering with POV-Ray

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:00:06 GMT

Users can now do Spectral Rendering with POV-Ray. For more details, see the contributors website for a description of how the process works, and all the Scene Description Language files that you will need to get started!

ANIMUSIC 3 kickstarter campaign in its last week

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 05:00:07 GMT

While not directly related to POV-Ray, many POV-Ray users will nevertheless be familiar with the ANIMUSIC series of renderings synced to music. Many of us think it's rather neat :-). If you've never seen their work before, check out this demo video, or the below kickstarter page (where they give a little more info about their rendering pipeline).

They are in the last week of a kickstarter campaign to enable the completion of the third release in the series, and have 75% of the funding needed. For those not familiar with kickstarter, they will only receive the pledges if they meet their target by the end of the campaign (which is September 5).

If you are interested in this sort of work you can pre-purchase ANIMUSIC 3 (or make a pledge) via their kickstarter campaign page.

Update of Insert Menus Add-on

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 17:00:08 GMT

The popular Insert Menus Add-on by Friedrich Lohmueller has been updated. See the download page. A collection of shape macros was also extended. Since these shapes are integrated into the add-on, look here for more details.

Caedium Version 4 Available

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 17:00:08 GMT

Caedium can now simulate free surface flows using a volume of fluid Computational Fluid Dynamics solver. View this animation rendered with POV-Ray, or visit their website for more details.

Another PoseRay Update

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 07:01:07 GMT

The main changes include some AMD video fixes, very basic SSLT support. There were also some miscellaneous bug fixes. It's compatible with POV-Ray 3.7 RC6. You can download it here!

Making of a Rose

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 11:00:09 GMT

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

Colored Leaves

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 10:01:09 GMT

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.

PoseRay Beta Release

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 10:01:09 GMT

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.

Four POV-Ray-created Music Videos on DVD

Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:01:02 GMT

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."

POV-Ray work by Holger Karsten

Mon, 6 Dec 2010 07:00:04 GMT

Long-time POV-Ray user, Holger Karsten, has recently created a blog of graphical work and experiments with POV-Ray. Check out his site at lightspeed.byethost24.com!

Y.A.P.R.M. 0.7.1 released

Fri, 3 Dec 2010 03:00:00 GMT

A new release of Y.A.P.R.M., "Yet Another POV-Ray Modeller", has been released. 0.7.1 is a bug fix release to correct many small issues and to introduce some enhancements for usability. Joëlle Cornavin has contributed a French translation and Debian packages will follow in the next few days.

HTTPov updated

Wed, 1 Dec 2010 08:02:00 GMT

HTTPov, a distributed rendering system for POV-Ray which runs over HTTP, has been updated to include new features and a new Python client. Also supports the POV-Ray 3.7 beta.

Blender Project Needs Help

Wed, 1 Dec 2010 04:00:05 GMT

Some of you may not know this, but the latest release of Blender has a POV-Ray exporter. Interested POV veterans that know how to program in Python should consider getting involved. This could be a great way to raise POV-Rays profile, by exposing it to more users. See their wiki for more details.

Leveller 4.0 Available

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 04:02:01 GMT

The Leveller heightfield modeler has been updated. Version 4.0 (Windows ONLY) includes true 3D scene objects, contour lines, elevation labeling, cut/fill analysis, cross section reporting, shape texturing, etc. and exports formats suitable for use with the POV-Ray height_field object.

LionSnake v1.7.16

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 09:00:06 GMT

A new version of LionSnake is now available, and you can get it here. Note: The download host has changed.

Penrose tessellation in POV-Ray

Wed, 9 Dec 2009 06:00:00 GMT

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. Check out the Matroska 1280x720 render at the Animated Penrose Tiling website (video available in multiple languages).

Faster CFD as Caedium goes Parallel

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:01:08 GMT

For details see the press release. See also this example of a Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) simulation performed in Caedium and rendered by POV-Ray.

Bishop3D 1.0.5.0

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 03:00:06 GMT

Bishop3D, a POV-Ray modeler and animation system for MS-Windows platform, is proud to announce the release of Bishop3D 1.0.5.0 This new release includes a long-waited Texture Library Manager, a new plugin for creating grass patches (inspired by Gilles Tran MakeGrass macro) as well as general improvements and bug fixes. Visit the "new look" Bishop3D website for more information.

Version 3.3 of SU2POV (Sketchup to POV-Ray converter) available

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 07:01:06 GMT

Version 3.3 of SU2POV is now available.

SU2POV is a freeware converter to export SketchUp models to POV-Ray. It has been designed so few actions are necessary to run POV-Ray and generate images of your SketchUp models. It runs on PC and Macintosh platforms.

LionSnake 1.7.15

Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:00:01 GMT

A new release of the LionSnake modeller is now available. The latest version includes several bug fixes and many enhancements to allow easier editing. A complete list of changes can be found on the new LionSnake website.

Visualization Library

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:01:05 GMT

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.

Australian Internet Censorship

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:01:07 GMT

Not ray-tracing related, but given the POV-Ray project's home base is Australia, we'll mention the ongoing plan to introduce mandatory internet censorship by the Australian Government. The EFA has a new campaign titled "It's Time to Tell Mum" which highlights a few points that the average internet user might not realize. One of the things to be particularly aware of is that the filter will not just cover illegal material, but any "unwanted content" (quoted from Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Communications, Nov 11 2009).

It's not clear what "unwanted content" is to be defined as (other than it doesn't include illegal material, since that's covered separately), and given the list of sites to be blocked will be secret, it may be hard to figure out.

Other links: Electronic Frontiers Australia, Stephen Conroy [satiric site], Senator Scott Ludlam [official site].

Jupiter Loses a Stripe

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:01:05 GMT

Lost: A giant belt of brown clouds big enough to swallow Earth twenty times over.

OGRE 1.7.1

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:01:05 GMT

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.

E-on Software Ships Vue 8.5

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:01:05 GMT

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.

Solar Dynamics Observatory

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:01:05 GMT

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is beaming back stunning new images of the sun, revealing our own star as never seen before!

Bishop3D 1.0.4.4

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:00:04 GMT

A new version of Bishop3D, a POV-Ray modeler and animation system for MS-Windows platform, is available. This new release includes an improved CSG evaluator, and a graphics card compatibility fix.

Insert Menu Add-on for POV-Ray

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:01:05 GMT

An new update of Friedrich Lohmullers' insert add-on menu for POV-Ray 3.6.2/3.7 is now available. For more details and download visit the website.

Ani2Pov v0.91 is available

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:00:07 GMT

A new version of Ani2Pov is available. The new version fixes bugs with weights of figures having several meshes.

DAZ 3D-Gizmoz Introduces Digimi

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:01:05 GMT

Digimi the ultimate platform for generating personalized avatars. Leveraging the collaboration of existing technologies from DAZ 3D and Gizmoz, Digimi offers a premier solution for complete avatar customization that extends creative possibilities toward developers of games, online worlds and real-time environments.

OpenTK Library 1.0 RC1

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:01:05 GMT

The OpenTK is an advanced, low-level C# library that wraps OpenGL, OpenCL and OpenAL. It is suitable for games, scientific applications and any other project that requires 3d graphics, audio or compute functionality.

PoseRay 3.13.3 beta

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 00:00:07 GMT

PoseRay is an utility to convert 3D model meshes into POV-Ray scenes, Moray UDO files or Kerkythea meshes. This beta version includes all the changes up to this date, and it was also tested to work with POV-Ray 3.7 ... Visit the site for more details.

Y.A.P.R.M version 0.7 released

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:00:07 GMT

After more than a year of hard work Y.A.P.R.M version 0.7 has been released. Featuring a greatly improved user interface, and work flow improvements. See the Yet Another POV-Ray Modeller site for more information.

Rhino for OS X is in development

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:01:05 GMT

During development, pre-release Rhino OS X is free to anyone willing to provide feedback. Visit their site for more information.

Sculptris

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:00:05 GMT

Sculptris is a work-in-progress sculpting tool that's been in development since early December 2009. Its main feature is dynamic mesh tessellation that will provide additional detail where necessary, without the user needing to worry about it.

LionSnake 1.7.14 hosting change

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:01:05 GMT

After the demise of GeoCites LionSnake is now hosted on a new server.

Caedium (formerly SymLab) now available on the Mac

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:01:08 GMT

The latest release of Caedium (v2.1) from Symscape now supports Mac OS X (10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard) in addition to Windows and Linux. With this release Caedium becomes one of the few (maybe the only) commercial CFD analysis tools with a rich interactive GUI to run as a native application on the Mac. Functionally the Mac version is identical to the Windows and Linux versions of Caedium, so engineers can choose their most productive platform to perform CFD simulations and export directly to the POV-Ray SDL format and create high quality ray-traced images.

see the complete press release
for an example of a CFD simulation rendered by POV-Ray.

TC-RTC Tribute

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:01:08 GMT

The latest TC-RTC topic is an open one with the title “A Tribute to Steve Paget”. The site can be found here. We would love to receive entries from those of us that remember him. Jewelry would be particularly appropriate as would something on the theme of “always look on the bright side of life”. As suggested by Colin, Steve’s friend and developer of the site. The winning image will be sent to Steve’s sister.

Y.A.P.R.M. 0.7 RC1 released

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 02:00:02 GMT

After almost a year the first release candidate of "Yet Another POV-Ray Modeller" 0.7 is available, featuring a switch to gtkmm, reworked look and feel and more efficient modelling process.

SymLab RANS Flow

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:01:05 GMT

Symscape's commercial range of simulation products has now been expanded to include SymLab RANS Flow for the simulation of realistic (viscous) gas and liquid flow with heat transfer. SymLab's viewer utility can, with the Viz Export add-on, directly output POV-Ray SDL. Examples of POV-Ray exports are available on their site.

But where is the shallow end?

Sat, 1 Nov 2008 22:01:00 GMT

French mathematician Xavier Caruso and Jos Leys have used POV-Ray to explain three common effects of refraction in their short film "But where is the shallow end?". It's released under Creative Commons license and can be viewed online here.