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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  
POV-Ray for Windows v3.7 beta 27

The Win32 build of POV-Ray version 3.7 beta 27 is now available. This is the first in the POVWIN beta series to have a full installer (provided as a Microsoft Installer .MSI file). While not a final version of the installer (currently it only installs for one user), it's a step in the right direction. The beta should be much more Vista-friendly as a result of this and some internal changes to the location files are stored.

[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]
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]
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