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POV-Ray
POV-Ray for Windows is the Microsoft Windows version of POV-Ray version 3. POV-Ray is short for the Persistence of Vision Raytracer, a tool for producing high-quality computer graphics. POV-Ray for Windows is not a modeller. It will not let you design scenes graphically on-screen. There are several shareware and freeware programs available for this purpose. To write or modify POV-Ray scenes you just edit the actual text file containing the commands. Our Review: This software can create excellent 3D images. You can adjust where the light comes from, and the angle from which you view the image. Of course, there's a catch - you have to type in code to create the picture (as in, you don't draw the picture yourself). Add this to the distressing lack of an adequate help file (which would need to be brilliant for this software) and you've got yourself into rather a mess. But then, no-one ever said 3D animation was easy, at least I never did. For those that do find it easy go to http://www.irtc.org/ for the internet ray tracing competition.
Licence: Freeware Version: 3.1g OS: Windows 95/98 Date: 2000/06/13 Developer: The Persistance of Vision Development Te Size: 5.00 MB		Free download
Yippee Ratings Breakdown (5 is best): Installation: 3 Interface: 2 Functionality: 3 Documentation: 1