Category:POV-Ray

POV-Ray

Developer(s) The POV-Team Initial release 24 July 1992 (1.0) Current version 3.7.0 (6 November 2013) Development status Active Operating system Cross-platform Available in English Type Ray tracer License GNU AGPL Website www.povray.org

Software infobox

POV-Ray, short for Persistence of Vision Raytracer, is a ray tracing program that can be used to create realistic renders of LDraw models.

Different methods exist to use POV-Ray for this purpose:

• LDraw models can be exported to POV-Ray format using LDView or L3P.
• The LGEO library, created by Lutz Uhlmann, was created to ensure that rendered models looked even more realistic when rendered.
• Also other such libraries exist.

Gallery

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  James Jessiman's pyramid model, rendered in POV-Ray.

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  A POV-Ray render of the 2015 LEGO Ideas set 21301 Birds.

See Also

• Blender
• Eyesight
• Conversion 101 (legacy article)

External Links

• Official POV-Ray Homepage
• Rendering LDraw models using POV-Ray at Eurobricks
• LDD POV-Ray Rendering tutorial at bricks'n'gears (includes LDraw-related information)