POV-Ray - The Persistence of Vision Raytracer
- Freeware multi-platform ray-tracing package. Include software download, 'hall of fame' images, FAQs, documentation and resources.
- http://www.povray.org/
PVM patch for POV-Ray - The PVMPOV patch for POV-Ray 3.1e gives POV the ability to distribute a rendering across multiple heterogeneous systems. - http://members.shaw.ca/adilger/povray/pvmpov.html
rune|vision 3d Graphics - Experiments with special effects, character animation, include files, tutorials, gallery, and various tips and tricks that can be used in POV-Ray. - http://runevision.com/3d/
TextureView 3.42 - Windows 95/98/NT free program that scans POV-Ray files for texture declarations and displays them in a list. Render a preview of these textures or create a new POV-Ray scenery file. - http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/index.html
CoolTubes - A short UNIX/Linux Perl script front-ends to POV-Ray that generate cool 3D text. Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. - http://snaught.com/CoolTubes/
POVMan - Custom patch of POV-Ray, which allows use of RenderMan (R) Shading Language for creating custom pigments with procedural code. Program is based on MegaPov 0.6a, another custom version of POV-Ray. By, Vahur Krouverk. - http://www.aetec.ee/fv/vkhomep.nsf
Forester - Complete 3D-landscape generation and visualization program that will also produce animations. To render the scene files created by Forester you will need to have installed POV-Ray. [Win 95/98/Me/2000] - http://www.dartnall.co.uk/
Internet Movie Project - This project plans to create a movie using POV-Ray, as a collaborative effort of the POV-Ray community - http://www.imp.org/Visitors/default.asp
POVRAY CPU-Benchmark - A Gallery of POVRAY-Images and a CPU-Benchmark based on POVRAY. Everyone can send me a Benchmarkresult. - http://www.tabsnet.com/
Texture Library 3.0 - This site provides textures for PoV-Ray and shows all textures in preview. - http://texlib.povray.org/
Moray - An interactive shareware wireframe modeller for the PC platform, supporting POV-Ray 3.1 and Polyray V1.8. Vestions for Windows NT, Windows 95, and a protected-mode DOS program, which runs fine under Win3.11 and OS2/2. - http://www.stmuc.com/moray/
PovChem - Shareware program outputs 3D molecular models to POV-Ray format. - http://www.chemicalgraphics.com/paul/PovChem.html
What is PoV-Ray? - Gallery, the authors personal history, resources, and texture library. - http://www.rene-schwietzke.de/povray/
Patched POV - MegaPov (formerly UVPov, SuperPatch, and MultiPatch) is a cooperative work by members of the POV-Ray community. This is an unofficial compile of POV-Ray. - http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm
Breeze Designer - 3D modeling and design tool for Windows, written to primarily interface with the Persistance of Vision raytracer, there is also support to export to a number of other popular renderers and VRML viewers. Manual, FAQs, image gallery, and downloads. - http://www.imagos.fl.net.au/
POV-Ray stuff - Several mesh creation include files and some POV-Ray related Python scripts. - http://members.home.nl/seedseven/
Joerg Schrammel's Home - Download the Genesis Tools. A set of tools to create detailed color maps and to place POV-Ray objects onto a heightfield. Plus a Gallery rendered with PovRay. - http://www.schrammel.org/
The Genesis Toolkit - A set of executables to work with POV-Ray heightfields. - http://www.schrammel.org/genesis.html
POV-Ray Technical Assistance Group (TAG) - Established by the POV-Team to support POV-Ray users around the world, includes members list, and FAQs. - http://tag.povray.org/
3D-CPU-Benchmark with POVRAY - CPU-Benchmarking with POV-Ray, and several models for download. - http://www.tabsnet.de/