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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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  What's New  
Y.A.P.R.M. 0.6.5 released

A new version of "Yet Another POV-Ray Modeller" is available with bug fixes, a new interactive 3D View viewport (allowing you to view your scene from any angle and assign the current view to the active camera), a wider range of 3D file formats supported for import and inline editing of objects.

[December 21, 2008] [Permalink]
Sphere Sweep Tutorial

An excellent tutorial on using the sphere_sweep object has been made available. The Sphere Sweep Tutorial (also available in German) ... [read more]

[December 17, 2008] [Permalink]
Animation Palace

A new POV-Ray animation website has appeared with some interesting animation projects. The site, Animation Palace, has downloadable projects you can render, as well as examples and other interesting info. ... [read more]

[December 17, 2008] [Permalink]
Bishop3D 1.0.2.8 beta

Bishop3D, the interactive Windows modeler and animation tool with native POV-Ray SDL import and keyframe animation, has been updated ... [read more]

[July 30, 2008] [Permalink]
LionSnake 1.7.10

A new update of the subdivision surface LionSnake Modeler is available ... [read more]

[July 30, 2008] [Permalink]
POV-Ray for Windows v3.7 beta 27

The Win32 version of POV-Ray version 3.7 beta 27 is now available. This ... ... [read more]

[July 02, 2008] [Permalink]
GDesign 2.0 - L-Systems and Cellular Automata

GDesign, a 2D/3D L-System program to generate complex fractal, organic and inorganic objects for POV-Ray and 3D Studio MAX, has now reached version 2.0 ... [read more]

[June 23, 2008] [Permalink]
Dimensions: A two hour movie made in POV-Ray!

Jos Leys, working with Etienne Ghys and Aurélien Alvarez (both mathematicians from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France) produced a two hour movie in POV-Ray which explores in beautiful visuals the concepts of dimensions and mathematics ... [read more]

[June 19, 2008] [Permalink]
PovEdge released - draw edges and creases of mesh objects

PovEdge, a new tool for rendering the edges of POV-Ray mesh objects (allowing for the creation of various drawing, sketch-like and cartoon styles) has been released by Thibaut Jonckheere ... [read more]

[May 22, 2008] [Permalink]
Ani2Pov 0.5 released, new file format support

Version 0.50 of the Anim8or (a free modeller) .an8 to POV-Ray file converter, Ani2Pov, is now available. This new version supports files created with the Anim8or v0.97 Preview release ... [read more]

[May 21, 2008] [Permalink]
Y.A.P.R.M. 0.6 released

A new version of "Yet Another POV-Ray Modeller" is available, featuring saving of view port setups, command line parameters ... [read more]

[May 01, 2008] [Permalink]
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