pov-ray links

The POV-Ray Homepage

Binaries for various platforms, artist profiles, links, and more!

The Internet Raytracing Competition

Stunning examples of works created with POV-Ray and other raytracers, plus the chance to enter your own work.

comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing

The Usenet forum for POV-Ray and other raytracing software

The POV-Ray news server

POV-Ray's own news server, with groups for different platforms, new users, programmers, binaries, etc. (you can also browse the server through the web)

The POV-Ray Technical Assistance Group (TAG)

The official support group appointed by the POV-Team

other pov-ray resources

Warp's Page

Developer of the Triangle Mesh Compressor and other great POV-Ray utilities, including the POV-Ray VFAQ (Very Frequently Asked Questions).

Digital Waterfalls

It looks great, and it's useful too - in addition to their own work, Steve and Dave's site contains links to many other 3D artists

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Another great collection of POV-Ray resources

Ken Tyler's page

Ken has studiously collected an exhaustive list of links covering POV-Ray and related subjects

Gautam N. Lad's Website

Although not quite as fresh as it could be (!), Gautam's page still contains many useful links and details of his own projects

pov-ray artists

Denis Olivier

Denis has created an astounding body of raytraced work, and many of the images are developed with his own POVLAB modeller, which he now generously offers as freeware

The Book of Beginnings

Funny, clever, well-designed, and very beautiful - Gilles Tran's collection of raytraced art and accompanying captions are a must-visit!

Andrea & Friedrich Lohmüller

A large and intriguing collection of abstract raytraces

Alfred G. de Wijn

Here you can download Alfred's parameterisation include file, which cleverly uses POV-Ray 3.1's new file output features to let you create all sorts of objects

Daniele Varrazzo

Daniele has created a very powerful modelling tool, Striscia, using POV-Ray macros that allow you to create all manner of spline-based objects

Mikael Carneholm

Home of Mikael's great animation tools, the Smoke Generator and AutoFly macro files

Ingo Stapel

Ingo's impressive site uses the Galaxy and Lens Effects include files very cleverly (particularly the Render on Demand service)

Dennis Miller

A great collection of organic raytraces, with links to Dennis' music and other projects

Tsutomo Higo

Another very talented and imaginative POV-Ray artist (and further proof that POV-Ray is truly an international language!)

Scott McDonald

Scott has been the driving force behind the City Generator Include File, and he has a large collection of POV-Ray work online

Jeffry J. Brickley

Jeff's great site includes his own Lightning Include File, which he plans to develop into a complete POV-Ray Weather System

Garry J. Vass's Bezier Spline Tutorial

Ever wondered how bezier splines actually work?

other include files A few files created by other POV-Ray users:

Exizt and App, Network Rendering Tools by Sebastian Breier

These two small programs allow you to distribute the rendering of both animations (using Exizt to allow each computer on a network to render frames without overwriting those already rendered) and still frames (using App to join uncompressed partial Targa files), over a DOS or Windows (3.1, 9x, NT) network. Download EXIZT.ZIP (11.3 Kb) and extract it to a temporary directory. The file includes the necessary executable files along with HTML instructions and contact information.

50-300mm Zoom Lens Flare, by Zeger Knaepen

Zeger has created an excellent custom lens effect for use with the Lens Effects include file. Save 50-300mm.txt (13 Kb) to your POV-Ray include directory with a suitable name (eg. 50-300mm Zoom.lfx). The file includes instructions and contact information.

Truss Include File, by Theran Cochran

Download TRUSS.ZIP (6 Kb) and extract it to a temporary directory. This file includes instructions and the source for the spaceship object in the image at left.

Include File Perl script, by Roland Mas

Roland has created a very useful Perl script to update any POV files that use include or macro files on a case-sensitive system. The script will convert all include file names to lowercase, and optionally add a directory prefix (so you can place the include files into separate directories without having to add all the directories to your POV-Ray library path). Save the script (2.5 Kb) with a suitable name (eg. modify-pov-files.pl). The file includes instructions and contact information.

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