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Chats and Forums
Newsgroups on the POV-Ray Server, The POV-Ray Newsgroups
FAQs, Help, and Tutorials
Daylon Graphics - Leveller, Fusner's Raytracing Grimore, Ib Rasmussen's, Introduction to POV-Ray Animation, Paul Bourke, Persistence of Text, POV Ray Tips, Rune's Blob Tutorial, SC208 Computer Graphics in Design, The Online POV-Ray Tutorial
Models
Gail Shaw's Objects, OuterArm POVRay Objects, POV-Ray Objects, POV-Ray Objects Collection, Space Shuttle POV-Ray Model Project, sPatch Object Collection, StarWars: The POV-Ray Collection
Utilities and Include Files
Colefax, Petibonum, PoseRay page by FlyerX, POV Ray Files Page, Pover - GUI wrapper for POV-Ray, Rune Vision, Texture Magic, The Official vrml2pov Website
Web Rings
POV-Ray Ring, POV-Ray Ring
3D-CPU-Benchmark with POVRAY
CPU-Benchmarking with POV-Ray, and several models for download.
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.
ClothRay
A patched version of POV-Ray, to do cloth simulation.
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.
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]
Hermite Curve Generator Program (POVHerm)
A stand-alone program that allows movements of objects, and viewpoints along smooth curves, includes Code, DOS executable, and examples.
Internet Movie Project
This project plans to create a movie using POV-Ray, as a collaborative effort of the POV-Ray community
JK's Domain
POV-Ray tutorials on spirals, some interesting uses of macros, and help on creating bicubic patches.
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.
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.
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.
POV-Ray - the Persistence of Vision Raytracer
High quality, freeware Ray Tracing package for MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, SunOS, Unix and Amiga operating systems. Lots of useful information available.
POV-Ray stuff
Several mesh creation include files and some POV-Ray related Python scripts.
POV-Ray Technical Assistance Group (TAG)
Established by the POV-Team to support POV-Ray users around the world, includes members list, and FAQs.
POV-Ray v3.02 Unofficial Macintosh Compiles
Custom version of POV-Ray for Macintosh that includes powerful utilities.
PovChem
Shareware program outputs 3D molecular models to POV-Ray format.
POVLAB
3D graphic modeler which models 3D objects for the POV-Ray software. Site includes a mailing list, what's new and tech support.
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.
POVRAY CPU-Benchmark
A Gallery of POVRAY-Images and a CPU-Benchmark based on POVRAY. Everyone can send me a Benchmarkresult.
POVRAY Stuff
Resources for Povray users with Source code examples.
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.
PvMegaPOV
A PVM port of the "Mega" patched version of POV-Ray 3.1.
Rune's World
Animation tools for POV-Ray including a particle system, lipsynch system and walking system
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.
Sonya's Page of POV Stuff
Items related to the Persistance of Vision Raytracer. Including links to related software and utilities, .INC and .POV files of interesting textures and shapes and a gallery of images.
Texture Library 3.0
This site provides textures for PoV-Ray and shows all textures in preview.
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.
The Genesis Toolkit
A set of executables to work with POV-Ray heightfields.
The Jinx POV-Ray Site
Texture library, gallery, and tutorials.
WCVT2POV
This MS-Windows program converts between various 3d file formats.
What is PoV-Ray?
Gallery, the authors personal history, resources, and texture library.