POV-Ray
Text-based ray-tracing program / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer, most commonly acronymed as POV-Ray, is a cross-platform ray-tracing program that generates images from a text-based scene description. It was originally based on DKBTrace, written by David Kirk Buck and Aaron A. Collins for Amiga computers. There are also influences from the earlier Polyray[6] raytracer because of contributions from its author, Alexander Enzmann. POV-Ray is free and open-source software, with the source code available under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license.
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Original author(s) | David Kirk Buck, Aaron A. Collins, Alexander Enzmann |
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Developer(s) | The POV-Team |
Initial release | July 29, 1991; 32 years ago (1991-07-29)[1][2] |
Stable release | |
Preview release | v3.8.0-beta.2 (August 9, 2021; 2 years ago (2021-08-09)[4]) [±] |
Repository | |
Written in | C++ |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Ray tracer |
License | AGPL-3.0-or-later[5] |
Website | www.povray.org |
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