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POV-Ray 3.5 Rendered

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the remember-the-goold-old-days dept.

Marty writes "The very long awaited version 3.5 of POV-Ray is available. POV is the pre-eminent open source ray tracer. The new version has many wonderful improvements and is able to allow amateurs and pros alike to generate CG images to drool over." I spent many hours mucking about with POV back in the day. Course CPUs are a little faster now, so my guess is those render times don't suck as bad.

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  1. Good fun by atcurtis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I remember having great fun with POV years ago... It was also very good to poke around at to learn how a ray-tracer works. I'd also recommend the book "Tricks of the Graphics Gurus" for those who don't have it.

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  2. I remember... by superdoo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I remember rendering the included Chess scene on a 386DX33 and it took almot 72 hours at the resolution and quality that we selected. Later, when my parents bought a spiffy brand-new Pentium 100 it took 15 minutes!

    Does anyone else remember POV smacking them in the head with Moore's Law?

  3. Re:If you aren't familiar with povray... by rabidcow · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Also check out http://www.oyonale.com/

    Gilles Tran has done incredible stuff with POV-Ray. (plus there's all those funky stories in the book of beginnings)