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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. Not cool by AirLace · · Score: 1, Troll

    POV-RAY has an obnoxious licensing scheme that's in many ways worse than anything to come out of Microsoft. Not only is the program itself proprietary, but it even goes so far as to stipulate what you can and can't subsequently do with your own artwork. I'm surprised anyone in the geek community, open source enthusiast or otherwise, would want to be associated with POV-RAY. This is the software that gives 'freeware' a bad name.