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POV-Ray
Version
3.7Date Added
(to site)March 14th, 2008Author
The POV-TeamLicense
POV-Ray License (?)Description
The Persistence of Vision Raytracer, or POV-Ray, is a cross platform ray tracing program for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics.
POV-Ray includes the following features: A Turing-complete scene description language (SDL) that supports macros and loops; a library of ready-made scenes, textures, and objects; support for a number of geometric primitives and constructive solid geometry; several kinds of light sources; atmospheric effects such as fog and media (smoke, clouds); reflections, refractions, and light caustics using photon mapping; surface patterns such as wrinkles, bumps, and ripples, for use in procedural textures and bump mapping; radiosity; image format support for textures and rendered output, including TGA, PNG, JPEG (only input) among others; extensive user documentation.
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