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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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To navigate about this site please use the navigation links at the top of this page. If you want to download POV-Ray, please visit our download page. If you are interested in our beta-test for SMP and multi-core systems, please visit our beta-test page.


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To contact us, please use the address given at the bottom of our license page. You may also wish to read our privacy policy.


  What's New  
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, conversion to POV-Ray, .ase and Videoscape .obj (for use in, for example, Blender).

Additionally, the source code is now available under the GPL v3 licence and Ani2Pov utilises WinForms (and thus requires the .NET framework). A Linux version will be available in the future and contributions to the project (as well as bug reports) are encouraged. See the Ani2Pov site for more details.

[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]
POV-Ray df3 import/export for ImageJ

[April 26, 2008] [Permalink]
Tkxture - Fast POV-Ray patterned material textures

A new utility for Linux and Windows, Tkxture, has been released. Tkxture allows for the rapid creation of POV-Ray textures, especially those involving patterns ... [read more]

[April 23, 2008] [Permalink]
LionSnake 1.7.10

A new version of subdivision surface LionSnake Modeler has been released. ... [read more]

[April 23, 2008] [Permalink]
Symscape's SymLab Now Available for Linux

Symscape's free SymLab viewer is now available for Linux as well as Windows ... [read more]

[April 21, 2008] [Permalink]
LionSnake 1.7.9

A bugfix release of LionSnake Modeler is available for download (see the LionSnake site for details). ... [read more]

[April 03, 2008] [Permalink]
LionSnake 1.7.8

Subdivision surface LionSnake Modeler now features better viewport zooming functions and increased efficiency in the subdivision previews. ... [read more]

[April 03, 2008] [Permalink]
Surface Subdivision Suite updates and LionSnake 1.7.7

New versions of LionSnake and the Surface Subdivision Suite are now available, fixing several bugs. It is recommended that users update to the latest version of each. ... [read more]

[March 24, 2008] [Permalink]
LionSnake 1.7.5 available

Another update to the subdivision surface LionSnake Modeler project is now available for download. This update fixes several bugs relating to Bones editing, subdivision macros and mesh editing. ... [read more]

[March 13, 2008] [Permalink]
IRTC being resurrected!

David K Buck (creator of DKBTrace which was later used as the basis for POV-Ray), after discussions with Chris Cason and the community, is pleased to announce the assembly of a group of developers to resurrect the dormant Internet Ray Tracing Competition! ... [read more]

[March 04, 2008] [Permalink]
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