POV-Ray

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 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.

POV-Ray
Original author(s)David Kirk Buck, Aaron A. Collins, Alexander Enzmann
Developer(s)The POV-Team
Initial releaseJuly 29, 1991 (1991-07-29)
Stable release
3.7.0.10  / 8 July 2021 (8 July 2021)
Preview releasev3.8.0-beta.2 (August 9, 2021 (2021-08-09)) [±]
Repository
Written inC++
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeRay tracer
LicenseAGPL-3.0-or-later
Websitewww.povray.org
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