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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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  What's New  
Sculptris
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.

[March 12, 2010] [Permalink]
LionSnake 1.7.14 hosting change

After the demise of GeoCities ... [read more]

[March 12, 2010] [Permalink]
Caedium (formerly SymLab) now available on the Mac

The latest release of Caedium (v2.1) from Symscape now supports Mac OS X (10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard) ... [read more]

[March 10, 2010] [Permalink]
TC-RTC Tribute

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.

[March 10, 2010] [Permalink]
Y.A.P.R.M. 0.7 RC1 released

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 ... [read more]

[December 02, 2009] [Permalink]
SymLab RANS Flow

Symscape's commercial range of simulation products has now been expanded to include SymLab RANS Flow for the simulation of realistic (viscous) ... [read more]

[November 09, 2009] [Permalink]
But where is the shallow end?

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?" ... [read more]

[November 22, 2009] [Permalink]
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