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abisphotostudio - Raytracer POV-Ray
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Licensing:
POV-Ray is distributed under the POV-Ray License, which permits free distribution of the program source code and binaries,
but restricts commercial distribution and the creation of Featuresderivative works other than fully functional versions of POV-Ray.
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POV-Ray has matured substantially since it was created. Recent versions of the software include some of the following features:
· A Turing-complete scene description language (SDL) that
supports macros and loops (see the SCC3 page for
an example of complete POV-Ray images made with
no more than 256 bytes of SDL).
· Library of ready-made scenes, textures, and objects
· Support for a number of geometric primitives and
constructive solid geometry
· Several kinds of light sources
· Atmospheric effects such as fog and media (smoke, clouds)
· Reflections, refractions, and light caustics using photon mapping
· Surface patterns such as wrinkles, bumps, and ripples,
for use in procedural textures and bump mapping
· Radiosity
· Image format support for textures and rendered output,
including TGA, PNG, JPEG (only input) among others
· Extensive user documentation
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