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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. POV-Ray is free and open-source software, with the source code available…

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Developer
The POV-Team
License
AGPL-3.0-or-later
Operating system
Cross-platform
Original authors
David Kirk Buck, Aaron A. Collins, Alexander Enzmann
Preview release
v3.8.0-beta.2 (August 9, 2021; 5 years ago (2021-08-09)) [±]
Release
July 29, 1991; 35 years ago (1991-07-29)

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POV-Ray

Nodes100
Edges99
Triples103
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02
Components1

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POV-Ray

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related to history · 34
POV-Ray → Aaron, Amiga, Animation, At, BBS, Chicago, Collins, CompuServe, Dalí's, David, David Buck, David Kirk Buck, DKBTrace, GraphDev, He, In, July, Memory, Persistence, POV
related to Features · 11
POV-Ray → It, JPEG, PNG, Recent, SDL, SSAA, TGA, The, This, Turing-complete, Type
related to Platform support · 10
POV-Ray → Intel Macs, Linux, Mac, Mac OS, SMP, Support, The, Unix, Unofficial Mac, Windows
related to Licensing · 9
POV-Ray → Although, Distribution License, FOSS, FSF, Originally, OSI, POV-Ray License, Source License, This
related to Development and maintenance · 7
POV-Ray → Most, Official, Official POV-Ray, POV-Team, Since POV-Ray's, Some, Web
related to Current version · 6
POV-Ray → BSP, HDRI, OpenEXR, SMP, The, This
related to Modeling · 5
POV-Ray → Blender, Modelling Programs, Povray, The POV-Ray, To
related to Examples of the scene description language · 2
POV-Ray → It, The
Developer · 1
POV-Ray → The POV-Team
License · 1
POV-Ray → AGPL-3.0-or-later

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
POV-RayDeveloperThe POV-Team1.00infobox
POV-RayLicenseAGPL-3.0-or-later1.00infobox
POV-RayOperating systemCross-platform1.00infobox
POV-RayOriginal authorsDavid Kirk Buck, Aaron A. Collins, Alexander Enzmann1.00infobox
POV-RayPreview releasev3.8.0-beta.2 (August 9, 2021; 5 years ago (2021-08-09)) [±]1.00infobox
POV-RayReleaseJuly 29, 1991; 35 years ago (1991-07-29)1.00infobox
POV-RayRepositorygithub.com/POV-Ray/povray1.00infobox
POV-RayStable release3.7.0.0 / 7 November 2013; 8 July 20211.00infobox
POV-RayTypeRay tracer1.00infobox
POV-RayWebsitewww.povray.org1.00infobox
POV-RayWritten inC++1.00infobox
foginstance ofand objectssupport for a number of geometric primitives and constructive solid geometryseveral kinds of light sourcesatmospheric effects0.80text

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