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- Persistence of Vision Raytracer
- Version 1.0
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- The Persistence of Vision Raytracer creates three-dimensional,
- photo-realistic images using a rendering technique called ray tracing.
- It reads in a text file containing information describing the objects and
- lighting in a scene and generates an image of that scene from the view
- point of a camera also described in the text file. Ray tracing is not
- a fast process by any means, but it produces very high quality images
- with realistic reflections, shading, perspective, and other effects.
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- The complete Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray) includes:
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- POVDOC - Archive containing the documentation for POV-Ray
- POVSCN - Archive containing the example scene files for POV-Ray
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- (the extension of these files is determined by your computer
- and is probably, .ZIP, .SIT, .LZH, or .TAR.
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- and one of the following executable archives,
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- POVIBM.ZIP - Executable and docs for IBM-PC and compatibles
- POVMAC.SIT - Executable and docs for Apple Macintosh
- POVAMI.LZH - Executable and docs for Commodore Amiga
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- The source code for POV-Ray is available for those interested,
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- POVSRC - Archive containing the C source code for POV-Ray
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- You should have POVDOC, POVSCN and the correct executable archive
- for your computer. In POVDOC is the file POVRAY.DOC which contains
- details on installing and using POV-Ray. Specific instructions for
- using POV-Ray with your computer are included with the executable.
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- If you have questions about POV-Ray, see "Contacting the Authors"
- in POVRAY.DOC.
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- We hope you enjoy the program!
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