Bookmarks for Ken

POV-TAG - The POV-Ray Technical Assistance Group
Established by the POV-Team (the current
authors of the Persistence of Vision
Raytracer) in late 1999, the TAG is made
up of selected members of the POV-Ray
user community. The purpose of the TAG is
to aid the POV-Team in supporting users of
POV-Ray around the world, using the
collective knowledge of the group to answer
users' POV-Ray questions and to bring
POV-Ray related matters to the attention of
the POV-Team as required.

3D Animation Utilities

avi2mpg1 - avi to mpeg-1 encoder
Avi2mpg1 is a freeware Windows '95/NT
.avi to mpeg-1 .mpg file encoder. It is not a
GUI app, rather it runs at the command
prompt. This program does have sound
capabilities.
Avi Creator
Create AVI files from Bitmaps and cons
instantly. You can now modify the scale/rate
of your AVIs. Very simple and free to use.
AVIEDIT
Tiny program to edit and build AVI's.
Requires Video for Windows.
AVI to Mpeg1
conversion/encoders freeware
Mainvision
MainVision is a powerful commercial media
compositing, vector animation and special
effects software used to create broadcast
quality video in off-line mode. This 32-bit
Windows application lets you compose
video, stills, sound and vector objects in
professional motion graphics.
Site offers are free demo version.
bmp2avi
It's a program to transform BMP files
generated by POV-Ray to a noncompressed AVI file. The main goal is the "interlace"
option. Use "Field_Render=On" and
"Odd_Field=On". Then use BMP2AVI to
correctly transform in an AVI file suitable for
Premiere or other program. This program is
intented (specially) for high resolution
rendering for real video broadcast output.
Bumper
Will allow you to preview a series of images before compiling as animation
CMPEG Windows GUI Front End
This new program offers Windows users a
GUI front end for the ever popular Cmpeg
animation encoder. The final version is now
available for download.
Cutter
Linux animation utility with AVI, RAW and PPM input and DivX :-) output.
DISPLAY
Alternative download site for Display
DTA v3.0 Final Version
This is the newly released version of
DTA 3.0 (Dave's Targa Animator) 12/99.
DDClip
Multitrack real-time audio and video editor adds sound to AVI's
Fast Movie Processor AVIS animation
Ligos Technology MPEG-2 encoders
Commercial MPEG encoding and video
compression for digital video recording and
multimedia in a software solution.
MainConcept
Shareware animation program with advanced capabilities
Mkavi.zip
An avi animation utility for dos and unix/linux
MOV2AVI
Converts MOV files into AVI files.
Movie2MPEG
QuickTime Movie (.mov) to MPEG1
converter for Macintosh.
Movie Utils
At the Info Mac Hyper-archive, too many to
list here.
MPEG.ORG
The ultimate source for Mpeg information.
You can find the CMPEG program here
Mpeg2 Encoder and Decoder
Works only with .ppm image files
Mpeg2 Encoder and Decoder
Works only with .ppm image files
Mpeg2 encoder w/codec
Mpeg2 software
MPEG_Join
Camel's MPEGJoin is a small utility to join
MPEG files. It's a very simple program and
all it does is join MPG files but it does this
very well if used correctly..
MPEG Plaza - Software
Mpeg software for encoding and playing
mpeg files.
ppm2fli_2.0d and Unflick
ppm2fli generates FLI animation files form a
series of images. Unflick is a utility to extract
images from a FLI animation. The programs
are written for UNIX like machines.
PVR-MPEG1 for Dos
QuickTime
QuickTime 3.0 upgrade allows you to render
QuickTime movies directly with POV. Also
plays the new MPEG codec and plays AVI's
as well. Upgrade to QT Pro for converting
PICT and JPEG images into QuickTime
movies. For the Mac OS
Smacker/Bink Tools
Free tool for making Bink (.bik) animations,
converting between animation formats (.bik,
.avi, .mpg) and between still formats (.bmp,
.gif, .jpg etc.) and other things.
SoftByte Labs
Download web files, site ripper, duplicate files, rename files, encrypt files, spam filtering, email monitoring
TFM MPEG Scissors
This Program was created for easy editing
of MPEG Files. It makes it easy to cut and
join multiple MPEG files. Windows 32 operating System (Win 95 / 98 / NT / 2000)
TGA2AVI
Animation Conversion Program Win95/NT
Vid Edit
The AVI editor. Build or edit. Insert many
formats.
VideoMach
VideoMach is a powerful audio/video
builder and converter. Use it to construct
video clips from still images, enhance your
recorded material or convert video, audio
and image files between many supported
formats. VideoMach is the successor to
Fast Movie Processor.
Win Mpeg II Animation Encoder
This program is a Win32 console application
that allows you to compile mpeg II
animations using .png image files as the
input file format. Freeware.

Compression Codecs

Compression Works CODEC's
Site contains several different codecs
available for download including both
audio and video.
Intel Codec Installer [CODINSTL.EXE]
Adds Codecs for the following:
Intel® PC Camera Pro Pack
Intel® PC Camera Pack
Intel® Create & Share Camera Pack
LEAD Technologies video CODEC
LEAD's Video Codec is a multimedia
compressor/decompressor.
SlaveTrainer's  I263  FAQ  And Help Page
Discusses the I.263 codec, how to install it,
trouble shooting proceedures, and where to
download it.
Video broadcasting products

POV-Ray Utilities and Include Files

Anim8 and Povtick
POV-Ray animation utilities
The Animation System
New Version of The Animation System.
Now supports Waypoints. Kinda like
Keyframes, but different.
AniTMT
With the help of AniTMT you can create
and calculate computer animated films. Its
main intention is to provide a powerful script
language for doing that. It is supposed to
both enable you to code animations as
plain/text and to provide an interface for the
(further) development of software like GUI
modellers. Currently supports POV-Ray output.
Autofly.inc
Animation banking utility
Buckyball Page
Program creates POV-Ray file of Buckballs colliding used for POV-Ray animation
Flag animation toolkit
Dave G's POV-Ray Animation System
Poet3-D Animation System
Poet3-D is a freeware animation system
which supports character animation, a click
and drag interface, and real-time playback
and editing via the OpenGL library. This
system is designed to export to the Pov-Ray
raytracer.
POV-Ray Animation System
Theresa Willis' Walking Animation
Varmint's POV-Ray Animator Home Page

3D Discussion Forums

Artists Discussion Forum
Come and spread your word on Computer
Arts and Animation. Speak with others about
New and Old tips and techniques on 3D
Computer Art using such tools as 3D Studio
Max, Maya, Softimage, etc... or just to talk
about 3D Computer Generated Art Period.
eGroups : pov_ray
An English discussion of the POV raytracer and images produced with it. All members of
this list are encouraged to submit their own
artwork to this group, provided the artwork is
produced with POV Ray or another
raytracer.
IHT CG Discussion Forum
3DstudioMAX, Lightwave, Maya, Softimage and more; the best italian computer graphics forum.
POV-Ray News Groups - news.povray.org
These are the news groups hosted by the
developers of POV-Ray. There are several
different discussion topics including
animation, unofficial patches, programming,
general topics, unix, IRTC
competition, and a group for posting of
images for critique by other users. Once you
have added the server to your list you will
still need to subscribe to the individual
groups. Be sure to stop first in the
povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions
group for info on group posting guidlines
The POV-Ray Newsgroups - Web Interface
This is the web based access to the
POV-Ray news groups. This is an
invaluable resource for any and all POV-Ray
users.
RenderMania
A website dedicated to everything BMRT and RenderMan related.
Renderosity.com
The 3D artists community.
TrueSpace 4-um
A forum to discuss all aspects of using trueSpace, to get help on the program, and post their own work in the gallery forum for comments and suggestions.

3D Image and Texture Resources

Area Map Search Form
USGS Mapping Information
Charles Poynton - Color technology
Computer Software for Tiling Images
Site contains a list of several software
programs specifically for tiling images.
Converter's Paradise
Graphic File Conversion programs
Default RGB colour space - sRGB
Draft and white paper on sRGB, the future web standard for images.
The Graphics File Format Page
Michelangelo
Italian sculpters links
Put your 3D images on photographic prints
This site is geared towards 'developing'
digital images or photos. But what can be
done is to submit your 3D rendered scene
as a JPEG file and they will print it on
photographic quality 4x6 prints. If you sign
up soon, the first 100 4X6 prints are free.

Image Resources

Astronomical Data Center
Catalog of Star charts and all things star related
Body References for 3D artists
Castle Image Archive
Download Planet Earth
Site contains links to DEM (digital elevation
maps) of the entire globe in various
resolutions.
Imageafter ** Free Images and Textures Database
Images FTP Free
Many catagories including Raytracing
Image Link
Map of island in cooks inlet Alaska
The Internet Ray Tracing Competition
The Internet Ray Tracing Competition is an
open competition. Deadline for still image
submission is every two months; for
animations, every three months. Participants
may use any 3D rendering program they
choose. If you want to see the best there is
in 3D rendering and raytracing this is the
place to go.
Maps of the Solar System
Welcome to the solar system surface map
database, a NASA/JPL/Caltech spyglass
on the cosmos. Select your planetary system
of choice and download maps, or browse
the surface features of your favorite planet
or satellite!
The Modelsheet Archive
Welcome to the modelsheet archive. The
collection displayed here has been gathered
from sevral sites on the internet and from
many wonderfull people who are willing to
share their wealth. This is intended as
reference only for animators and aspiring
animators.
Nebulae Page
Offers pictures of Nebula for background applications
Photovault Stock Photos
Images of Pollen, Plant Pics, Photos, and Flowers. This is a very comprehensive
photo data base and well worth the time
exploring.
USGS us .DEM maps
Dem maps scaled at 1:1,000,000
Xglobe/Xplanet Maps
Each map set consists of a 200x100
"thumbnail" image, a 400x200 very low
resolution image, a 800x400 "standard"
resolution image, and a high resolution
image of up to 1600x800 pixels. There
are also super-hi-res images of up to
2400x1200 pixels. Most map sets avialable
here are copyright free.

Texture Resources

3DCAFE'S FREE TEXTURES
3D Texture Libraries and Backgrounds from TextureWorld
Thousands of professional, high-quality, photorealisitc seamless textures for game developers and architects and more.
Absolute Background Textures Archive
2800+ Free Tiling Background Textures
Absolute Cross
The One-Stop Spot for Free Online
Graphics, Tips, Tools & Resources.
Seemless tilable textures available.
Doc Browns Background images/textures
Free Art Textures
Small collection but good
Iain's Textures
Image_maps
From:3D Photorealism Toolkit
Marlin Studios
Professional CDs of seamless textures and lots of free samples.
Mega Grafx ® Textures Library
10 Pages full of texture resources
Phillean Wood Textures
A great collection of wood texture maps.
Planet Textures
Public Textures
Photographic images that may be used as
3D textures in your scenes. All high resolution. 350+ images.
Renfield Imaging
A growing gallery of the Web's most intriguing seamless textures. All images free for download. New images monthly.
Rob's Granite Page
Stone texture library
Tiles and stone vendor with an incredible library of textures (marble, granite etc.)
SMW Enterprise
Publisher and Design Studio of uniquely ornamented, high-resolution textures all
totaly free.
Technoweenie
Textures, Bump Maps, and Materials
TerraMetrics
Commercial Images for Topo maps/HF's Samples only
Textures
General Collection - some good
Textures
Texture, Maps, Materials, Bumps (skin)
Textures
Free 125 - some good most poor quality
Textures
Free: Good assortment - nice collection of Grayscales - good for bumpmaps etc
Textures
By: Laboratoriet - 116 photorealistic texture maps.
Textures
Human and Monster textures
Textures
University collection - Many stones and brick textures
Textures Archive
A large collection of Textures catagorized
for easy selection.
Textures FTP
Free - These are poorly identified but sampling showed nice surprises
Texture Gallery
A free collection of cool and original
mapping textures
Texture Land
Abnormal Textures
Texture Land !
Normal Textures
Texture Library
POV-Ray v3.0-Textures
Texture Project
Here is a site of free lo-res and high-res
manmade and natural textures.
Texture Shoppe
Texture Station
Tiling backgrounds, textures, desktop wallpaper
Texture Studio
Free textures. Just give credit. 19.1 Mb
zipped. Bmp mostly and some jpg +
tutorial to make textures with photoshop.
All high quality textures with some very
interesting patterns.
Travis Price Digital Craftsman
342 free photographic textures.
Toob's Tiled Textures
100% seamless tileable textures, free! Request hard-to-find textures here.

3D Link Sites

Cad Links

AutoCad Links from CADsyst
Shareware products for ACAD
AutoCAD Rsrc Gid
CAD,CAM,DATA EXCHANGE
CAD Outpost
3D Design Software and Accessories
Circuitmaker files
Linux- CAD Shrine
Information and links about 3D CAD/Modelling systems for UNIX Operating systems.
OpenDWG Alliance
The OpenDWG Alliance is an association of
CAD customers and vendors committed to
promoting Autodesk AutoCAD's DWG
drawing file format as an open, industry -
standard format for the exchange of CAD
drawings.
Wolfram Research, Inc., Makers of Mathematica

3D Animation Workshop
webreference.com --3d animation tutorials and resources
3d links
Site contains many links to 3D resources
many of which are 3D model sites.
3dRender.com
3DSite
General Source of 3D Info, links, tutorial, and models.
Bob's omniVERSE Links Page
Computer Graphics Bookmarks
Has a very extensive listing of resources including links to siggraph papers
Computer Graphics Links
Contains links to University, Goverment, and Private Graphics researches
Cutting edge 3D computer graphics
Keeping you abreast of advances in the
field of 3d computer graphics.
Daniel Skarda's Rendering and Graphics Links
This is an extensive collection of links even
if a bit disorganized
Discount Dons 3D Links - Large list
DMOZ Open Directory of 3D Links
Nice collection of links to 3D resources
including POV-Ray.
Dreams and magic links
A comprehensive source of links to 3D materials and activites
Exstream Guide to 3d on the Web
Comprehensive listing of links to 3D
resources.
Favorite CG links
Maintained by: Henrik Wann Jensen
Favorite Links of Andrea and Friedrich Lohmueller
Has a nice collection of links to POV-Ray
related sites. Also, take time to visit his
raytracing and photo gallery - nice stuff
Find 3D - 3D Search Engine
3D search engine for 3d sites and 3d
models
GraphicsMuse
Graphics Resources for the Unix Desktop
JuHu's Graphics and 3D Links
Many outdated but a large # of links are listed
Lannie's 3D Model World
Site contains several resources for Bryce
and 3D graphics in general. Includes
links to free model sites, Poser resources,
texture and plugins links, plus others.
Larry Gritz's Links Page
Larry is the author of BMRT (Blue Moon
Rendering Tools) and also an employee
of Pixar who offers the commercial quality
Renderman suite of software and brought
you Toy Story to the big screen.
Linux 3D Links
Site contains and excellent section on
sites that offer 3D utilities for the Linux
platform. Many POV-Ray related resources
are listed. Site is in French only.
MacOS 3D Web Directory
A large list of 3D programs compatible with
the Macintosh OS.
Macintosh POV-Ray Resources
A detailed list of Macintosh POV utilities, although some of the links are getting a bit out of date.
Mark Jeffers 3D Resource Page
Mostly True Space Related
POV-Ray.ORG Links Page
This is the official povray.org links page hosted by the makers of POV-Ray. This
is a very comprehensive list of links related to POV-Ray and 3D graphics in general.
You are encouraged to contribute links to this site so that it's usefulness to others may grow. Contact linkmaster@povray.org to
contribute links.
POV-Ray Site
A Directory of Pov-Ray related sites and their content - French based
POV-Ray
POV-Ray Resources on the Net
POV-Ray Webring
A web ring dedicated to users of the program POV-Ray
POV-Ray Ring Japan
This is the main page of the POV-Ray Web
Ring in Japan.
Procedural Texture Page
Links to sources of info on Proceedural texturing
Ray Tracing Link Page
POV-Ray - Artists, Graphics, Modelling, etc. links
Renderman Links Collection
This link site, posted by DotCSoftware inc. is
a collection of every known renderman
compliant renderer made, from 1987 to the
present.
Rob's Page
Freeware, 3D Studio IPAS, POV-Ray, PwrBasic, Gifs, Links & ?
Siggraph 98 Links
Steiner Surfaces
Large Links section to sites with info on parametric surfaces
Thomas' PoV-Ray Corner
Nice collection of links to POV-Ray users
sites.
Ultimate 3D Objects
Free Models Links list - Good reference source
Web 3D VRML WRL Search Engine
Perl based 3D search engine, shapemaker,
terrain maker engine, and shape object
library.

3D Magazines, Lists, and FAQ's

ACM SIGGRAPH Online!
A 3D Club
Comp Gfx & Ani Artists. Montly modelling contest -membership free
CPU-Benchmark with POVRAY
This Web page contains a list of CPU
Benchmarks done with the raytracing
program POVRAY.
DemoNews.com
List of 3d program demos available on the web.
IMP POV-Ray Internet Movie Project Homepage
Pixar Home Page
The Makers of Toy Story and the Renderman Program
POVBENCH - The Official Home Page
Ray Tracing News Guide
Rendering software List - Paul T. Bourk's
A comprehansive list of raytracing and rendering programs
Rendering Times News
Renderology
Industrial 3D Modeling and Rendering
Resources
Shawn Fumo's POV-Ray Utilities List
3 pages of POV-Ray related utilities and resources complete with descriptions and
contact information
TOUECCANS Home
Software reviews of both animated and non animated 2D/3D graphics programs

FAQ's

Alt.binaries.pictures FAQ
AVI FAQ
AVI Graphics Format FAQ
Comp.fonts FAQ
Comp.graphics.algorithms FAQ
Comp.graphics.animation FAQ
Comp.graphics.misc FAQ
Comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing FAQ
Gamma FAQ and Color FAQ
Graphics File Formats FAQ
Graphic Utilities' Site & Version FAQ
Internet FAQ Archives
The Java 3D FAQ
Java 3D(TM) API FAQ
JPEG FAQ
Medical Image Volume Visualization Software FAQ
MPEG-FAQ: multimedia compression [1/9]
MPEG-2 FAQ - Table of Contents
OpenGL FAQ
POV-Ray VFAQ
This is must reading for all new users of the
program POV-Ray. This faq answers the
most commonly asked questions in the news
groups and was put together by many
experienced volunteers.
Printing FAQ
RenderMan FAQ
Robotics FAQ
Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ
Sphere FAQ
Stereogram / SIRDS / SIS FAQ
Technical Illustration FAQ
USENET FAQ's

Online Magazines

3D Artist Magazine Info
3DEZine home
Online informational resource and
interactive forum for Web 3D- The
VirtuWorlds' 3DEZine! Tips, tutorials, and 3D articles
are just some of the highlights of this site.
3dRender.com
A general interest 3D rendering information
site. Quality information and informative
articles available.
3D World Magazine
News, features, reviews and discussion of everything 3D.
Animation Artist Magazine
The best animation resource on the Web!
CadaLog
The Auto Cad Magazine web and file library
DemoNews
Great source for information on 3D
Digital Producer Magazine
The premier resource for information on
Digital Video, Animation, Effects, Design,
Imaging and Technology.
KeyFraming Magazine

3D Model Sites

PartsWorks.com - Solidworks online parts library
Online Mechanical Part Library for Solidworks
Starship Modeler
A plastic modeling resource that has
pictures and blueprints that can also be
valuable to the 3d modeler. Categories
include star trek and star wars as well as
babylon 5, 2001 and 2010, space 1999,
mecha, and real spacecraft. Don't miss it!
Starship Schematic Database
The best source for 5-view starship
(blueprints for Star Trek and Star Wars.
Soon to be added: Star Blazers (Yamato)
and B5!
Thomas Models
Thomas Models, your source for truly
authentic resin and vacu-form Trek type
model kits. Authenticity and ease of
assembly is our primary goal at Thomas
Models. We hope that you will find our
products of superior quality with special
attention to detail and craftsmanship.

3DS Models

3Dimension
70+ free models 3ds, dxf, lwo many excellent objects
3D Majik
Small collection of free 3ds models most are pay for models
3D Models
6 Free - .3DS format - Book,Candles, Stero Cab, Hand ...
3DS and COB Models
Football (.cob), Mech (.cob), Warrior bug
(.3ds), Futurecar (.3ds)
Egypt3D
3d models, 3dtextures, 3d tutorials, 3d
plugins,3 d gallery, web3d, 3d hardware.
Free 3D Fish Models
Several and various fish models in .3ds
format.
Night Crafts Lair
6 Free - 2 Sci-FI, 1 forklift, ...
Nixon
3D Star Wars models 3ds and max formats
Rocky3d
A 3d website dedicated to offering quality,
useful 3d models. We offer high quality
custom modeling, laser scanning, 3d
digitizing, rapid prototyping and custom 3d
imagery and some FREE 3DS models.
Turbo Squid
3DS models - some free, some for sale. Nice
little collection.

MAX, WRL, DXF, COB, OBJ, IOB

COB

Free Poser and Bryce downloads
RDS model page
Most have .cob equivs available as well.
Truespace Objects
Most have .cob equivs available as well.

DXF

AutoCAD
2D/3D DWG/DXF files
C2 3D Models and Graphics.
Site offers a few high quality DXF model
downloads including a modern Boing 747.
A $25 membership is required to access
the rest of the site but the sample area is
freely accessable.
Evelio's Babylon 5 Page
Assortment of Babylon-5 spaceship models
as images and as DXF and other 3-D
formats
LoneWolf Design
Free - 5 trees, 2 bushs, 1 bonzia all high Quality .DXF's

IOB

FAWS
3D objects database - .IOB objects 449 Some high quality

Mixed Formats

3D1
max/3ds and now POV-Ray objects - mostly bathroom fixtures/furniture
Amature vrml stuff
Couple of good models
Hammer Visual Engineering
VRML Samples
VRML Repository
Libraries of VRML Objects
Zig Zag's S3D Models
Simply 3D models. Has approximately 8
models for download

Large / Mixed Collections

2001: A Space Odyssey - 3D Modeling Archive
Site contains models from the movie 2001.
The models are available in mixed format
though mainly in 3D Studio .MAX.
3D-ARK: 3D Art,3D Models,3D Articles,3D Tutorials,3D Links,3D Jobs
3D-Ave.
Offer low cost 3d models for Poser and
custom modeling. A Free model is offered on
a monthly basis for download.
3D CAFE'S MODELS
3D CAFE'S HOMEPAGE
3D CAFE'S MODELS (PLANTS)
3D Furniture Models
Nice collection of 3d furniture models in MAX and DXF format. Some free plus CDs
for sale.
3D Lapidary--Gems and Jewelry For Computer Artists
Free 3D models of gemstones--actual
gemstone cut designs, translated into 3D
format, for use in most 3d programs. Most of
the models are in DXF format, a few in OBJ
with mapped surfaces. Over 100 models
with more added each month.
3d links
Site contains many links to 3D resources
many of which are 3D model sites.
3D Photorealism Toolkit
Handtools, Electronics, Odds, Ends-3ds format
3DSite: Model Market
3DSpot Models
3D Studio Model Shop
46 Free Pre-Texture Models And More Added All The Time! Also free textures
available for download.
3DPlants.com
Around 70 free plant models in 3DS and DXF formats.
3dtrees.com - Commercial
Amazing 3D graphics, Inc
Many Free 3D Models
Artist's Gallery
Several free period household objects in 3DS format (table, bed, vases, lamps), very nice.
Art Recon Inc.
Commercial Greek Roman Archetecture
A Space Library
Several Space Craft models in various
formats including DXF.
Auto Model Collection
Max/3DS Excellent High Quality w/many models
Avalon FTP for Models
Coyne Studios
Home of the Free Model Meshes Ring.
Dedicated Digital
Free models in several formats
De Espona 3D Enclopedia
Commercial 3D Models - us $500 - 1 CD
Digital asteroid models
Digital models (wavefront and POV-Ray
formats) of real asteroids derived from radar
images.
Dreams and Magic
3D Meshes 1 Small selection
Forward Design
3D Objects 60+ models .dxf, iob, .3ds, .cob, .pxl (pixel 3d), Mics. Objs
The Ghastley Poser Page
Site contains a Poser gallery, tutorials,
models and a 3D links page
Gentry City Limits
Free 3D Models in DXF and 3ds formats
Great Buildings Online
Free 3D Models of Great Buildings - 3DMF
file format
Great Escape Studios
StarTrek and Mech mesh models. High
quality. Various formats available.
GreyLight : Poser
Clothing 11 mdls -mixed 3ds
GreyLight : Poser
Hair 17 mdls Female hair 3ds
GreyLight : Poser
Headgear - hats 19 .3ds
GreyLight : Poser
Weapons 27 mdls mixed history 3ds dxf
Grotto Azura Graffix
Featuring a POV render on the splash page,
Grotto Azura is a collective of several
accomplished 3D artists who are making a
large collection of 3D models, textures and
tutorials available for free (along with a few
for-sale items).
Innovari
Here you will find many Bryce 3D (and Bryce
4) \"space stuff\" objects in .obj format complete with textures.
Ion Group
Jan Fischer's homepage
Page about different 3-D programs
( Pov-Ray, Cinema 4D, Terragen and
SPatch) and role-playing systems like
Battletech. Some models can be
downloaded for free.
LAVA- Archetectural Models
LBL ITG Whole Frog Project - MRI Data Sets
Near bottom of pate you will find ftp-links to
MRI scanned data sets of a tomato, an
orange, a pumpkin, a frog, and a rat.
Little 3D-Studio
80+ models from low poloygon count fill
items to high quality models. Many different
categories to choose from ranging from
small household items to models of people.
LWO Objects
Free 4 obj's Soccer ball, coffee cup, Antique Steam train engine, Book
Metro/Design
Site contains quality 3DS Max and Rhino
Models.
Ming 3D Toons Shop
Model Index
3ds models beards, animal horns
Moray home.page
Moray Objects Collection
National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project
Human full scan MRI and CT scan data
sets.
Objects
Meshes, models: .dxf .3ds .max , sculpture
Part Server
Free mechanical parts, sorted by
manufacturers. 3DS, STL, VRML, XGL
and various CAD formats.
Poitra Visual Communications Model Catalog
Poitra introduces its premier and historic 3d models and custom modeling service.
Extensive listing of high quality models for
commercial applications.
Poser Models
Poses, Textures, Morphs - All natural
Quick3D.org's huge 3D Model Library
A daily expanding database of 3D models
in the Quick 3D model format.
Reebo's Meshyard
Welcome to the Meshyard. Here you can freely share and
download meshparts for
your personal 3D
graphics projects. All
meshes are in 3DS
format, but files may also
be converted to
another format if requested.
SAM'S 3D
3D Models used with Poser, Vue, Byrce etc. Most for sale but nice selection of
free models as well.
Singularity Models by Sparky
Mostly Space/Futuristic HIGH quality
Space Shuttle models
Stanford 3D Scanning Repository
The models available are in a text based
.ply format and will need to be converted
for use on your platform. There are 4 models
available - Happy Buda, a rabbit, a drill bit,
and a detailed chinese dragon.
Star Wars
Mesh Objs. Also has SW's Blue Prints
Star Wars
The POV-Ray Collection
Star Wars: The 3D Modelling Alliance
Sumrallworks
Model freebies
Trolley Models
Zig Zag's S3D Studio
Has eleven Models available in .s3d,
,dxf, .3ds, and .cob 3D file formats.
Items range from good to high quality
with items like a aircompressor, window/
doors, swimming pool, park bench, and
others of interest.

3D Programs

Chemical/Molecular Modelling Programs

BioDesigner
Molecular modeling and visualization
software bundled with protein sequence
editor. Supports POV format output.
Biomolecular Modelling Home Page
Chime - PDB plugins
Chime allows you to view PDB (protein data
base ) files from within your browser.
Versions available for both the Windows
and Mac platforms
DDL - Drug design Laboratiry
The site includes VEGA a program for molecular visualization, surface mapping and trajectory analysis.
DINO: Visualizing Structural Biology
DINO uses OpenGL for realtime visualization of biological structures, surfaces, scalar
fields and topographs. POV-Ray output is
supported
Dynamical-systems.org
A web based Dynamical systems laboratory where the scenes were built with Povray.
Garlic Home Page
Garlic, free molecular visualization program,
protein structure, DNA structure, PDB,
molecular rendering, biological
macromolecule, unix, linux, free software
download, open source software.
Gl_render
Convert Mol/BobScript output to POV-Ray and Raster3D format
JOELib
JOELib is a platform independent open
source computational chemistry package
written in Java with output support for
POV-Ray..
MacroModel Program
The MacroModel® program suite from
Schrödinger, Inc. allows the graphical
construction of complex chemical structures
and the application of molecular mechanics
and dynamics techniques in vacuo or in
solution.
mm2pov
mm2pov is a program which converts a
MacroModel data file into a Persistence of
Vision blob object. This allows you to
ray-trace some really pretty pictures of your
favourite molecules...
Mol2Mol
Molecule file conversion and manipulation
program, has POV-Ray support
MOLMOL
MOLecule analysis and MOLecule display
Molpov
Molecular POV-Ray modelling program
The Molray molecular graphics web interface
Molray is a web interface to POV-Ray for
producing high-quality molecular - graphics
images from O plot files and other sources.
ORTEP-3 for Windows
ORTEP-3 for Windows is chemical structure
drawing tool with POV-Ray and Raster3D
support. Reads SHELX, CIF, Sybyl MOL,
XYZ, PDB and other file formats.
pdb2pov
pdb2pov: a command line pdb file to pov-ray converter.
PovChem
Ppovit
Ppovit is a small Perl program that reads 3D
molecular structure coordinates in Protein
Data Bank (PDB) format and generates a
scene description script that can be used as
input for the Persistence Of Vision (POV)
ray-tracer to create high quality images of
macromolecular models.
PyMOL
Free molecular ray-casting software. Runs
under Linux, Unix, Mac and Windows.
Re_View
Molecular visualization program - POV-Ray support
StrukEd
Editor for chemical structures (automatic generation of 3D coords) and Interfaces to several programs (e.g. qc-Programs, POV-Ray)
Swiss-Protien data base Viewer
Has POV-Ray support
Tessel v 2.0
Tesselation and molecular modelling
POV-Ray compatible
Visual Molecular Dynamics
Chemistry Modelling with POV-Ray support

Commercial 3D Programs

3D Canvas
3D Canvas is a freeware real-time 3D
modeling and animation tool that
incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop
approach to 3D modeling.
Alias Wavefront
Maya 1.0
Artifice DesignWorkshop
Intuitive 3D modeling, rendering and real - time walkthrough software for Windows and Macintosh.
Ashlar Home
Vellum 3D - transforms 2D and 3D wireframe data into surface data
Auto Des Sys
Form Z 3d modeller
Autodesk - Design Software Product Section
Makers of AutoCad, 3D Studio Max, and
Character Studio. This is their product description page.
AutoShip
Software for ship hull design
Bryce 4 by:MetaCreations
Bryce 4 is dedicated to designing, rendering
and animating breathtaking natural 3D
worlds and abstract 3D sculptures. Bryce is
a perfect application for both beginners and
advanced users because it is extremely
easy to use and it comes loaded with
libraries of presets to use in your own work.
Cadmatic
Cadmatic is a powerful 3D CAD/CAE/CAM
software system. Cadmatic runs in normal
Pentium level PC and saves time and money
in your plant or ship design project.
Caligari Creator of trueSpace
Crystal Graphics
3D graphics and 3D animation software for
your Microsoft PowerPoint presentations,
web pages, videos and banner ads! Try our
free demos of PowerPlugs and Crystal 3D
IMPACT! Pro.
Hash, Inc.
Hash Animation Master: patch-based modeler and character animation program.
Impulse Inc.
Organica and Imagine 1.0 modeling
packages
InnovMetric Software - Home
Modeling suite for transforming 3d digitizer data into color models
J-Cad Professional Polygon Editor
A modeller that support PovRay's RAW
format. JCad does not do ray-tracing but
allows for very easy creation of 3D models.
MCnurbs Creator 2.0
MCnurbs Creator 2.0 is a series of tools for
creating smooth looking free form 3D
surfaces in Diehl Graphsoft's VectorWorks 8
and MiniCad 7. It can for example be used
for creating terrain models, tents, hypars,
complex roofs and walls, furniture,
mechanical components, industrial design,
etc. For Mac and Windows.
Millit - Rapid Prototyping
Rapid Prototyping of real 3D objects from
your 3D graphics files.
MultiGen-Paradigm Home Page
Real time 3d modeling applications
NewTek - Lightwave
One of the more respected high end 3D modelling programs on the market
Nova Design, Inc.
Aladdin 4D 5.0 - Nice mod-end rendering package
PhotoModeler Home
EOS Systems Photomodeler Pro 3.0 - creates models from photos
Raindrop Geomagic, Inc.
Creators of Decimator and Wrap 3D Modeling Tools
Robert McNeel & Associates
Rhino - NURBS modeling tool
SGI
Silicon Graphics web site
Side Effects Software
Side Effects Software Houdini 2.5 high end animation and visual effects solution
Silicon Dream Ltd - Genesis 3D editor
Genesis is a fully functional, realtime 3D editor for windows. It has many unique features not found on other editors and is very intuitive to use. 3D objects can be loaded, edited, viewed and saved again to disk while enjoying the luxury of realtime rendering. It also has a very powerful programming toolkit for those who like to get their feet wet. The toolkit allows 3D applications or plug-in tools for the editor to be written.
Softimage Inc.
Softimage - Very highend animation/visual effects software
Solid Thinking
Full NURBS-based 3D modeling and rendering environment with Construction Tree. Support of all industry standard rendering techniques (scan-line, raytracing, radiosity).
Strata inc.
Makers of Strata StudioPro
Template Graphics Software
Amapi 3D - superb modeling tool
Touch-3D
Touch3D is program for 3D modeling and
unfolding / unwrapping 3D models into flat
2D patterns. It can for example be used for
concept design, industrial design, quick
prototyping, mock-ups, scale models, marine
design, physical renderings, production
preparation, etc. For the Mac platform
VariCAD
A compact 3D/2D mechanical CAD package.
VisualMarker
VisualMarker - Inexpensive motion capture software. Up to 4 simple webcams and no special rooms. Takes 2D images and allows
you to create 3D models. 3DS output
support.

Conversion Utilities

3D Exploration - 3D viewer
3D Exploration is easy-to-use viewer for
Windows 95, 98 and NT with Explorer-like
interface and Open GL hardware
accelerator support. It allows you to browse
many popular 3D file formats - 3D Studio,
LightWave, Caligari, Direct X, AutoCAD
and many other, plus common 2D file types.
$30 shareware
3DS2POV V1.80
3DS2POV V1.80 - This free program can
convert your binary 3D Studio 3DS file in
POV 1.0, POV 2.0 including basic material
parameters (color, ambient, diffuse,
reflection, transparency) and smoothing. It
also supports the output of RAW (useful for
POVLAB), Vivid and Polyray. Supports
animation ! By Steve Anger
3DWin HomePage
Likely the most versitle shareware 3D
conversion utility that you will find anywhere.
It is actively maintained and developed and
has support for most major 3D file formats.
It also include direct support for POV-Ray
and Moray plus the author has plug-ins
available for Moray for direct import
capabilitites.
AccuTrans 3D - Home
AccuTrans 3D provides accurate translation
of 3D geometry between the file formats
used by many popular modeling programs.
Positional and rotational information for the
3D meshes is maintained. Also many
material attributes, such as color, index of
refraction, reflection, specularity
and Phong shading, are transferred
between the files. Textures are not currently
supported. The program has been
enhanced with additional features to make it
more than just a 3D file conversion program.
Has POV-Ray support.
asc2tga and Smooth
When rendering landscapes from maps with
POV-Ray you often have an elevation matrix
stored as an ASCII matrix. asc2tga converts
such a file into a POV readable heightfield
in TGA format. Smooth can magnify this
heightfield using bicubic interpolation.
Artlandia 1.5
Extends the powerful Mathematica
language and lets you write simple
programs that produce ornaments, patterns
and designs for industrial applications or
your mathematical recreations.
AutoCAD2POV
AutoCAD2POV 3.0a. This is a *much* more solid package than Version 1. It is almost a
total rewrite, with tons of improvements, and
many objects added (converts AutoCAD
colors). Win95+.
Blender Python Conversion Scripts
Python scripts for converting Blender
models to other formats including POV-Ray.
C2HTML
C2HTML - Converts sourcecodes (e.g. C,
C++, POVray) to HTML i,cl. syntax
highlighting.
Cadlink
CADLINK provides CAD / CAM translator-converter and 3D CAD / CAM viewer for CATIA, CADDS, AUTOCAD, RHINO3D, PRO/E, SOLIDWORKS, SOLID EDGE, IDEAS, UNIGRAPHICS, IGES, DXF, STEP, VRML.
Code to HTML converter
Now including povray source. Process source code to HTML with colored syntax for linux.
Conversion Tools
Site contains a large number of command
line conversion utilities most with source
code available.
Cross Roads 3D
Another free POV-Ray compatible 3D conversion program. It offers support for
multiple 3D file formats and can export
directly to POV-Ray's file format. Another
utility called wcvt2pov is also available at
this site.
dxf2pov and dxf2wrl
dxf2rad - Convert Geometry from DXF to RADIANCE
Dxf2rad is a command line utility for
translating geometry data from the DXF file
format into the format understood by the
RADIANCE lighting simulation package.
Dxf2rad shares a lot of code with Radout,
an Autocad extension to export geometry
directly from within a drawing. It was written
to support the architectural lighting design
software package Rayfront, which offers
complete control over all parameters of
RADIANCE simulations.
Eagle 3D
Programm converts Eagle-Layout-File (www.cadsoft.de) to a POVRay-Scene.
EPS2Pov
EPS2POV is an Hypercard stack (need
Hypercard Player) for Macintosh users that
allow you to use eps files to create POV-Ray
objects like prisms, lathes, sors or polygons
GLView v4.0
GLView is a standalone VRML 1.0/2.0
Browser and 3D File Viewer for Windows
NT 4.0 and Windows 95/98.
IDtoPOV
File conversion utility will convert INFINI-D file to POV-Ray file
Inventor 2.0 / VRML 1.0 Converters
LDRAW2LWS 1.0
This tool can convert Lego bricks
(LDraw-Object Files (*.dat)) into Lightwave
Objects (*.lwo) and Lightwave Scenes
(*.lws) and many more.
Lillysoft 8
A program that runs under both Windows
and Mac to convert RIB to POV files.
Maple2Pov converter Style-Povdis
Mathmatica2Pov
Ray Tracing and Graphics Extensions > Mathmatica2Pov conversion
mm2pov
mm2pov is a program which converts a MacroModel data file into a Persistence of Vision blob object. This allows you to ray-trace some really pretty pictures of your favourite molecules...
Mrawpov Converter
Converts RAW to POV smooth triangle.
OBJuvPOV
OBJuvPOV - Poser4 .OBJ to POV-Ray
converter (early beta). This program offers
conversion from .obj to .pov files and
allows for maintaining texture coordinates
through use of UV mapping. This feature
requires Nathan Kopp's UVPov patched
version of POV-Ray.
PolyTrans
Accurate, High Quality 3D Model Translation Software
POV-Ray.M
POVRAY.m is a Mathematica program
(available as source text) that converts
Mathematica 3D graphics objects to
POV-Ray input.
Pose2POV
DOS command-line utility with source for
converting the OBJ mesh and MTL texture
files exported by Poser 3 and 4 to POV-Ray
format, with complete texturing. Has options
for exporting UV texture-mapping info to
UV-POV or the SuperPatch.
PoseRay page by FlyerX
Here you can download the utility PoseRay
that converts Wavefront OBJ files into
POV-Ray/MegaPOV code and Moray UDO
models.
Pro/ENGINEER And PovRay
Delphi and Tcl/Tk programs for converting
parts and multilevel assemblies from
Pro/ENGINEER (professional 3D CAD) to
PovRay include files.
Radout
Autocad to RADIANCE geometry export tool
Radout is now avaliable in version 3.9.7 for
Autocad 2000.
rib2pov
A pearl script for converting RIB renderman
files to POV-Ray files.
SCALE Calculator
Scale calc is a Free ware calculator
intended to be used by Kit Builders.
It provide calculations to the most used
scales as well as ft to meters and meters to
ft conversions. 3D enthusiasts might find
it useful for making accurate scaled down
versions of real objects.
SLP2POV2
SLP2POV -A utility to onvert
Pro/ENGINEER render (.slp) files to
POV-Ray format (.inc)
stl2pov 1.0
Converts from STL to POV-Ray.
ThreeDS
ThreeDS is a Python module for loading and
displaying 3D models in the 3DStudio Max
3DS format. It comes with view3DS, a
simple model viewer written in Python.
VRML2POV
A VRML to POV-Ray conversion program
WinTopo Raster to Vector Conversion

Fonts and Font Utilities

ELEFONT
3D extruded Text from TTF fonts.Output
to POV-Ray and .dxf
Gcode95, TTFtoDXF
TTFtoDXF a utility to convert from a single
character to a paragraph of text in any True
Type font, to a Dxf file which can then be
manipulated in Gcode or Autocad. Handy
for sign making or engraving.
SoftText for POV-Ray
TTConverter 1.5
TTConverter converts Windows truetype fonts to Mac and vice versa. It’s the other way around that you’ll find useful in POV: you need to convert your Truetype fonts to text format before POV can use them.
Xara3D
Font software for 3D web graphics

Fonts

1FONTS
We have over 900 cool free fonts to choose
from. All of the fonts are shown in color
previews with the font name and the font's
file size. The fonts were taken from all
different sources. All of the fonts are saved
as .zip files.
-=1001=- Free Fonts
Abstract Original Free Fonts ding bats font
art free fontz for download this page is
updated every 3-4 days+database (archive )
1001 Free Fonts
Download Free Fonts and Dingbats. Huge
Collection of Freeware and Shareware Fonts
und Schriftarten.
Chankstore
Fonts designed by Chank Diesel and
Charles Anderson with downloadable
fee fonts every week.
DINC
dincTYPE - unique fonts for Macintosh and
PC. Including some free fonts.
Flat Earth
A collection of fantasy and medieval fonts.
Fantasy, medieval, and rune fonts in TTF
format, ready for download.
Font Fairy Free Fonts
Welcome to the Font Fairy site, home of
guilt-free typographic treasures! These are
not just any fonts, mind you, but high quality
commercial ones. In the real world they
would set you back over a thousand dollars
if you were to buy them all but here they are
free.
Font Freak
Free true type fonts and dingbats for both
PC and Mac
The FontSite
FontSite - a monthly magazine dedicated to
typography and design, offering free fonts,
fonts for sale, feature articles and an
extensive book listing on typography and
design.
Free Font downloads
TrueType core fonts for the Web from
MicroSoft
Free fonts at fontastic!
Surely not a cure from font addiction, but
this is your one-stop archive to hundreds of
pc fonts. Choose from many categories; all
fonts pictured; unique designs.
High-Logic's Font Creator
Create, design, edit and modify True Type
Font Files. Shareware $35.
Phil's Fonts
Phil's Fonts, Inc. - type and graphic software
resource, featuring font showings, contests,
free fonts, web specials, type and graphic
links, and more.
Rotodesign
Free Fonts
Roxanne's free Graphics
Free graphics, fonts, and Photoshop
tutorials.
Sassy Fonts
Over 100 free fonts to download.
.TTF
Original free TTF fonts
Windows fonts for Macintosh

Height Field Modelling Programs and Utilities

3DEM
Terrain Visualization and Flyby animation
asc2tga and Smooth
When rendering landscapes from maps with
POV-Ray you often have an elevation matrix
stored as an ASCII matrix. asc2tga converts
such a file into a POV readable heightfield
in TGA format. Smooth can magnify this
heightfield using bicubic interpolation.
Digital Terrain Modeling and Mapping Digital Elevation Model
Generate 3D Digital Terrain Models and
Digital Terrain Maps using free digital
elevation model (DEM) data from the USGS,
NIMA, ASTER and other sources. Learn to
render them using POV-Ray, MicroDem,
Terragen, 3DEM, Global Mapper, Arc
Explorer, Multispec and other free or low
cost applications. Convert data using
GEOTIFF, BANDPASS, DEM2TGA7,
DEM2POV2, MDEM2DEM, SDTS2DEM
and other converters offered for free
download.
Doug Fortune's Digital Elevation of the World
EarthScape Heightfield Editor
A simple but powerful utility for editing .tga
files used with POV-Ray(tm) heightfields.
For use on Windows95/98 systems.
Fractal World Explorer
nbos software's fractal 3d relief map
generator for windows.
GenesisII
HLA
Based on John Beale's Hf-Lab, HLA creates
'fractal forgery' landscape/skyscape/map
height fields (Reference: The Science of
Fractal Images, Peitgen, Saupe eds.) mainly
for use with PovRay ray tracing software.
Outputs TGA, GIF, POT, MAT, PGM, and
OCT formats.
HLA, a height field generator for DOS
Based on/around John Beale's Hf-Lab, HLA
creates 'fractal forgery' landscape /
skyscape/map "height fields" (Reference:
The Science of Fractal Images, Peitgen,
Saupe eds.) mainly for use with POV-Ray
ray tracing software. Outputs TGA, GIF,
PNG, POT, MAT, PGM, and OCT formats.
John Beale
Height Fields Gforge and HF Lab programs
Landscape & Tree
Height Fields & Terrain modeler links
Landscape-Maker v2.1
Image to HF software output to .COB file format by:RYU Software
Landscape Visualization by Geomantics
We specialize in the development and use
of landscape visualization and geographical
software, with particular emphasis on its
application in Geographical Information
Systems (GIS), Mapping, Geography,
Geology, Multimedia, 3D simulation,
Professional Graphics, Education and
Outdoor pursuits.
LEVELLER
Comprehensive and Very Capable Height
Field Modelling Environment. Comes
highly recommended.
MacDEM
MacDEM, by Jerry Farm, is an application
for working with USGS DEM files and can
convert them into POV-Ray format.
MacDEM reads 1:250K and 7.5 minute
DEMS in ASCII and SDTS format, and can
also merge DEM files together.
MacDEM2POV 1.2
DEM files (topographic data files) can be
converted to POV-Ray with this simple Mac
utility, supplied by Russell Towle:
MacDEM2POV 1.2, converts 7.5 minute
U.S.G.S. quadrangles to 24-bit Targa files,
for use in the POV-Ray height_field function.
It is a quick Mac port of a UNIX/DOS utility
and is under active development. This is a
direct download only - no site available.
Mapper
Mapper is a visualization tool written to work
with GIS data found on the internet. It can
combine data from different sources and in
varying formats to a single view. It is not an
image processing tool but rather builds a
3dimensional model of the earth.
Microdem
Displays and merges digital elevation models and satellite imagery
Pavan Virtual Reality
Kit for Map Info GIS and VR Panoramas
POVSCAPE
A quick Little Height Field Editing Utility for
POV-Ray, It Includes INC file creation for
"Trees" that you can have on your
heightfields. Only 160k zipped, it includes C
source, it is freeware.
Terrain Forge
Terraform Home Page
Terraform is an open source interactive
height field generation and manipulation
program, giving you the ability to generate
random terrain and transform it. Terraform
runs under Linux and other UNIX systems
under the X11 Windowing system. It uses
the Gtk+ widget set and thus has a (more or
less) consistent graphical user interface
which doesn't require use of the command
line.
Terragen
Terragen is a scenery generator being
developed for Windows 95, 98 and NT.
At this stage of its development, Terragen is
free for personal non-commercial use.
TerrainMan v2.01
Mac Height Field editor with .pict support
STDS2POV.EXE
STDS geographical data file conversion program -Outputs to .TGA for height fields
Terrain Maker Home Page
Landscape generator/editor for gif
heightfields used by POV. It has a midpoint
algorythm fractal landscape generator and
a suite of tools for editing landscapes.
Includes a colormap editor. Shareware- five
bucks.
TruFlite's 3D
Terrain and Visualzation Software
Vis5D
Multi demensional data set viewer similar to that used in weather forecasting
VisAD Home Page
VisAD provides access to data from GVAR
and GOES (U.S.), GMS (Japanese) and
Meteosat (European) weather satellites. This
links VisAD's CoordinateSystem mechanism
with McIDAS satellite navigation to
geolocate the images so that they can be
overlaid with data from numerical models
and other sources
Wave Creator
A small program to generate simulated liquid surfaces as3D height fields for POV and Moray.
WDem2Tga
Converts .DEM elevat Maps to 8/16 bit Images for Height Field Work
Wilber
It allows an individual to play with terrain
data (height fields). It can import data from
and export data to many popular file formats.
In addition, it allows the data to be modified
wth a number of image processing
operations as well as height field painting
tools.
World Machine Beta Release
World Machine is a terrain heightfield
generator that takes a slightly different
approach than the norm. While still in beta
the it looks very promising.

LSystems

FLEA - Fractal Life Engine Gallery
Ruby LPARSER rewrite; new features with
POV-Ray export.
LPARSER
L-systems Software Resources list
LinSys3d
LSystems 3d editor with POV-Ray export.
RayTraced Evolution

Mesh Utilities

ELASTICITY2
Elcovision 10
Generate highly accurate 3D models from
photographs. ELCOVISION 10 is the most
accurate and easiest to use close range
photogrammetry software on the market.
Fair Surface Design
This is an uncompiled mesh smoothing program. See site for details.
Mesh Generation: Software
This is a list of public domain and
commercial mesh generation programs
with some details of thier abilities.
MilkShape 3D 1.1.0
Shareware mesh modeller that exports to POV-Ray.
Photo Modeller
Commercial 2d to 3d Modelling program. Converts 2D images into 3D models.
Povray Object Processing Perl Library
This simple library of perl modules giving
objects to represent points, vectors and
larger objects. At the moment it only
understands triangles and it's main use
is to smooth a mesh of triangles. It also
allows for some mesh deformation. Requires
you to have PERL installed to run.
ProgMesh - Home Page
ProgMesh is a 3D polygon mesh
simplification program which enables you to
reduce the number of polygons in your
objects without a visible loss of quality.
Input format supported is .3ds. Program runs
under Windows 95/98. Freeware !
sMesh home page
Be sure to check out the utilities on this page
Triangles, a triangle mesh making utility
Triangles is a free DOS program for
constructing triangle meshes, especially for
POV-Ray (Output to RAW, POV mesh, and
PCM1)
WannaBe
WannaBe is a Texturemapping Polygon
(trimesh) editor for the Macintosh PPC. It
reads and writes dmmf, 3DMF, and TMDL.
Wings 3d
Open-source polygon mesh modeller inspired by Nendo. Has an export plugin that
will work with POV-Ray v3.5

Misc. POV-Ray Utilities

Builder Home Page
A collection of shareware and freeware
programs that build things. Castle, Galaxy,
Nation, and World Builder are available.
Most have support for POV-Ray output.
Colograms - Create Stereoscopic Printed Images
Create spectacular 3D images with your bubble jet printer! Written with POV-Ray
in mind.
df3Maker & df3Viewer
A little program for windows that will convert
comma delimited ASCII files into POV-Ray
.df3 files. Also available is a simple .df3
viewer which lets you view xy layers of a
.df3 file.
D-form Home Page
Deformation tool for POV-Ray MAC Only
Erend
Convert Electronics gerber net lists to POV-Ray for rendering
Form
The FORM program is a FREE program that
allows you to create "FORMS" for display
on your monitor or for rendering by the POV
raytracer. A form is a three dimensional
object built up from a simple set of primitives
and some simple operations performed on
them.
Fractal Explorer
Fractal Explorer is a freeware program to generate fractal images and animations.
GEODESIC DOME - Modeller
Image2Pov
The software will turn a 2D image into a 3D
POV file. Convert the pixels into 3D cubes,
spheres or blobs.
The Madtricksystem - Surface Of Revolution
A modeling tool for PoV-Ray's sor object.
macSPDsuite
A collection of Public Domain(!) programs
that auto-generate complex raytracer
scenes, useful for benchmarking raytracers
on different computers, or against other ray
tracers. Can output to POV-Ray, RTrace,
DXF, QuickDraw3D/3DMF, VRML2, NFF,
Wavefront OBJ, Raw, Renderman RIB, etc.
Motion Blur
A utility that averages images to create motion blur effects in POV-Ray images
By: Warp
Petibonum
Petibonum is just a simplistic Java2 GUI front-end to P. Houston's Blobman.
It will not replace Poser, but it might save some time if you have blob people to pose.
PLANT STUDIO
By: - Kurtz-Fernhout Software
POVHerm
Hermite Curve Generator Program for POV-Ray
POVPan Homepage
POVPan is a FREE package designed
in order to easily create and display 3D
panoramas for static and dynamic scenes
written with the Persistence Of Vision
Raytracer.
PovShape
POVshape will create a torus definition with
specified radii which you can copy into your
scene files, and will create a couple of other
POV shapes that you might find useful.
POV-Ray Utilities 2.1
The ancient POV-Utilities 2.1 utility has been
made available here, in case you want to
make shells, coils, Connect-The-Dots,
Lissajous, Swoop, or convert RAW, DXF, or
POV-Ray 1.0 files to POV-Ray 2.0 files.
Note that there is a bug in the DXF
conversion utility, and it tends to drop some
triangle facets. This is a direct download
only and is for the Macintosh platform.
POV-View
A small windows utility that will allow you
to view POV-Ray pigments and textures.
Rocktools Homepage
Rocktools will eventually be a collection of
various Unix tools with which to create and
manipulate open or closed triangular
meshes. It is specificaly intended to be used
for the creation of rock objects for POV-Ray
and includes several features for degrading
the smooth faces of a mesh object towards
this end. While it is a UNIX suite of tools
there is an early version of the source that
was compiled as a DOS comand line utility
also available for download.
Sierpinski Curve Generator
SierpCurve is a Windows 95 program that will generate Sierpinski curves. The output can be saved as either a Windows bitmap file, or as POV-Ray 3.x source file.
Silly Space 3
Blob modeler (OpenGL), exports to POV-Ray Mesh, not blob-object.
Suds
Create Suds or foam using spheres. This
tool was used to create the POV-Ray for
windows v3.0 splash screen
Suds Object creation using winbatch
Surface de Révolution - SOR
A small GUI utility to create Surface of
Revolution objects for POV-Ray.
Tcl/Tk/Tix Tools for POV-Ray v3.1
Some simple and useful Tcl apps for POVray users and a tutorial for Sced modeler. Apps
include a color map generator, a POV-Ray
front end, a texture generator, and a declaration tool.
TGA2DF3
A simple program to convert .TGA images into density files (.df3) for POV-Ray.
TGAMosaic - For RedHat Linux 6.0
This version of TGAMosaic is the same
as the windows version of the program
only it has been ported to the Linux platform
and is offered from a different web site
than the original. All functionality at this
time is the same.
Ultra Fractal: Advanced Fractal Software
The site is dedicated to Ultra Fractal 2,
an advanced fractal plotter for Windows
95/98/NT.

Modelling Programs

AC3D - HOME PAGE
Powerful 3d modeller supporting POV and
many other formats.
AERO
Animation Editor for Realistic Object movements - New Site
Anim8or 3d Modeler
Anim8or is a 3D modeling and character
animation program. Output to .3ds.
Art of Illusion
Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D
modelling and rendering studio. It is written
entirely in Java, and should be usable on
any Java Virtual Machine which is
compatible with JDK 1.1 or later.
BRL-CAD®
he BRL-CAD® Package is a powerful
Combinatorial Solid Geometry (CSG) solid
modeling system. BRL-CAD® includes an
interactive geometry editor, ray tracing
support for rendering and geometric
analysis, network distributed framebuffer
support, image-processing and signal -
processing tools. The entire package is
distributed in source code form. BRL-CAD
is developed and maintained by the US
Military and is offered free of charge.
Canoma
Allows you to build 3D VRML models from
2D images.
Crocus v1.009a
A parametric 3D modeler based on the
OpenGL library. Understands lparser files
and is able to write them out as Wavefront
OBJ-files.
CYCAS CAD
2D+3D cad program for Linux, Amiga,
and NetBSD. Supports POV-Ray output.
DesignWorkShopLight
Free 3D mdl prog. Use for house/build dwgs has .dxf/3dmf in/out
Digital Clay
Digital Clay is a very low cost software that allows you to design 3-D shapes in a
manner like clay work. Since it is very
easy-to-use software, beginners who don't
have any knowledge of 3-D computer
graphics can easily work with it !
ESV MarbleCLAY beta 4
3D Polygon Modeler with some nice organic
modelling capabilities.
Eurêka 2.12
(French site) Appears to be a vrml 3d implicit/parametric surface modeller - POV-Ray models at site
Genesis 3D Editor
A fully functional, realtime 3D editor for windows
GeomView
An interactive 3D geometery viewing program
Hexa-Great-3D
HexaGreat-3D is the very easy 3D polygon
modeler. It is English version of
'Rokkaku-Daioh', the most famous 3D
free-software in Japan. Because of its simple
operation and flexibility, both beginners and
professionals love HexaGreat-3D. Windows
output to .DXF.
IRIT modeling environment
IRIT is a solid modeling environment that
allows one to model basic, primitive based,
models using Boolean operations as well as
freeform surface's based models. It has
several unique features such as strong
symbolic computation, support of trivariate
volumes and triangular patches, high
portability, and numerous unique
applications such as surface layout
decomposition, metamorphosis of curves
and surfaces, and artistic line art drawings
of parameteric and implicit forms. Several
OS platforms are supported - see page for
details.
K-3D
K-3D is a crossplatform (only compiled for
linux), opensource modeler that seems to
have a tool based/deformation based
paradigm(Much like elasticity).
MacWeb3D
Your Resource for Web3D, VRML and
Virtual Worlds on the Macintosh.
MathGL3d
OpenGL Viewer for Mathematica has POV-Ray export
Meshwork v1.5
Meshwork is a 3D triangle-mesh modeling
program for MacOS. It is designed especially
for making compact, efficient objects for use
in 3D games or on the web. MacOS trimesh
modeller exports to POV-Ray (and others)
MindsEye
http://mindseye.sourceforge.net/
MINOS for Windows
2D-3D Cad/Solid Modeller Freeware several nice features
Model Magic 3D OpenGl Renderer
Moonlite
MOONLITE is an application of
photorealistic indoor lighting projects in
AutoCAD enviroment with three
dimensional graphics. MOONLITE is used to
simulate real objects and the behaviour of
the light sources.
Mops
Modelling Prog - Free - Good program to learn Nurbs mdl'g with.
Panorama home page
Peak3D, win32 2d/3d modeller
Professional and interactive 2D/3D
Modeler. Innovative Boolean 3D Algorithm,
hierarchical POV-Ray 3.0 Texture Editor,
programmable Interface and More.
PolyEdit
PolyEdit: Japanese, made by the Doga team. A polygon editor with various 3D
export capabilities.
Rhino 3D
Start with sketches, drawings, physical
models, or only an idea Rhino provides
the tools you need to accurately model
your designs ready for rendering, animation,
drafting, analysis, and manufacturing.
Has export support for POV-Ray. This
is a commercial program.
SCEDA
SCene EDitor/Animator original page
SCEDA II
An X-Windows based, constraint-oriented three dimensional wireframe modeller with full animation.
Silicon Dream Ltd - Genesis 3D editor
Spazz3D VRML 97 Editor - Shareware
Spazz3D allows you to design and build 3-D
scenes, and bring them to life by animating
the geometry, and defining rules of
interactivity, which can trigger lights,
sounds, and animations. Has a nice text
extrusion feature. Can be easily converted
to POV-Ray format with the VRML2Pov
conversion utility.
Techno Win
2D/3D CAD.Full OLE 2.0 supports Multi Doc/View
Tree Professional
TREE PROFESSIONAL is a parametric
modeller of broadleaf and conifer trees,
palms and shrubs, and SF vegetation.
Creates photorealistic 3D vegetation with
adjustable polygon count and detail.

POV-Ray Modelling Programs

3dPM
This is the homepage of 3dPM, a 3D
modelling program for POV-Ray.
AC3D - HOME PAGE
Powerful 3d modeller supporting POV and
many other formats.
Arboretum
The Forester Arboretum is an add-on to
Forester for creating trees suitable for
rendering by Forester/POV-Ray.
Bicubic Patch Modeller
A Bicubic patch modeler: English/Japan.
Windows. Very basic. Output PovRay.
Blob Master
New Windows Blob Modelling Prog R 0.1a on 04-11-1999
BLOB Sculptor v2.0b
BLOB Sculptor 2.0b - BS is a blob/metaball
modeller, that allows you to create unique
organic shapes which can be incorporated
into your favorite graphics rendering
program. Using BS, you can create,
position, and edit multiple blobs and their
components, preview their interactions, and
output the result to such formats as
POV-Ray, PolyRay, and DXF (3D Studio,
AutoCad) (78KB)
Breeze Designer
Calimax Modeller Home (Deutsch)
Calimax Modeller is a 32-bit 3D modelling
tool for Windows 9x,Me,NT and 2000. It
gives you an easy-to-use graphical
user interface for interactive modelling
scenes for the Persistance of Vision
raytracer.
Capow
Implicit surface modeller
Digi-Art Software - POV-Ray modeller
DMesh
Human and Organic Modelling program
EB Model 3 for POV-Ray on Atari
Has support for most primitives, wireframe
modeller, fractal hf generation (w isometric
preview, erosion, antialiasing, mirror, invert),
gourad/phong shaded preview, heirarcial
representation of the scene, texture preview
and it is for atari's only. May be possible to
run on Atari emulators.
Forester
Forester, a new 3D 'sculpting' program.
Forester allows a Terragen scene to be
'populated' with POV-Ray objects, eg trees,
rocks, buildings, etc (in fact anything that
can be modelled in POV-Ray).
Fullmoon - Moray Scripting Plug-in
This plugin is an attempt to make object plugin coding for Moray easier, by allowing authors to code them using a script language.
Giram
Giram is a POV-Ray oriented modeller for Linux using the GTK+ toolkit.
HamaPatch
HamaPatch is a program that offers similar
functionality to the program sPatch. It is
a bicubic patch modelling program. Unlike
sPatch this program is still under active
development and should continue to evolve
into something better. The program has now
been designed to be bilingual in the same
distrubution offering both English &
Japanese.
Hamapatch Homepage - English
HiRes Subdivision Software
Highres will allow you to take low detail 3D
models and convert them to higher
resolution 3D models with a variety of tools
available to accomplish this.
KPovModeler
KPovModeler is a modeling and composition
program for creating POV-Ray (TM) scenes
in KDE. KPovModeler supports now almost
all functionality of POV-Ray 3.1.
L3GO
Lego modelling for POV-Ray
Lightray3D Home Page
Modeling/Animation/Rendering tool.Exports to POV3(mesh).
M3D - 3D Surfaces (DXF)
Generates Surfaces in DXF, POV, RAW,
and CSV Format from User Input 3D
Equations.
MagicLight Modeller
Still in dev. - by: Mikaels Aronssons
Mg^2 3D modeler
Mg^2 is a developmental free 3D modeler
for Unix. Developers are needed. As of
v0.1.16, it supports Povray as an output
format. Allows import of .3ds, .dxf and other
3D file formats
Mizno Lab.
Metasequoia: English/Japanese, Windows
shareware (Export disabled, full version not
yet available outside Japan). Polygon
modeler. Export PovRay and others.
Mondfarilo Page
Probably the most useful object editor for the Macintosh; it handles blobs and lathes as well as the simpler shapes.
Moray Homepage
Moray of all of the POV-Ray compatible
modelling programs offers the most support
for POV-Ray's many features and is actively
maintained and developed by it's creators. If
you are looking for a low cost full featured
modelling environment for POV-Ray look no
further than here.
Model Scene Editor
A 3D Scene Editor for POVray.
PixelPutty
Pixels has a flexible commercial PowerPC
NURBS modeler and animation system
called PixelPutty which exports to 3DMF &
DXF (2.0), but will soon export to POV-Ray
format as well (2.1). A free demo is
downloadable from their web site.
Polywog
A free simple 3D polygonal modelling
program. Versions available for Win95/NT
and Amiga. While simple it has some nice
features that make modelling intuitive and is
easy to work with. Supports outputs to
POV-Ray among other formats.
POVLAB's Modeller Home Page
ppModeler
Has several nice modelling features and can
be run on WIndows, BeOS, and linux.
Program will export to POV-Ray and other
3D file formats.
Project Struck
Java based solid modelling program w/output to POV-Ray
Pygmalion - Modeler For POV-Ray
Pygmalion: Japanese, Windows & Linux & Source. Mesh modeler surface subdivision.
Usable without Japanese knowledge.
Output PovRay.
Softy 3D
A unique organic (?) shapes modelling program. Has POV-Ray support Something like SPatch output
sPatch
Bicubic Patch Modelling program with
support for POV-Ray.
sPatch Download Page
An alternative download site for sPatch
TAD
Comprehensive Software Suite For archetecture - POV-Ray out ?
TreeDesigner
A full featured Tree/Plant Making Program
with full control over the objects shape and form.
Truevision
A modeler for unix based on gnome and opengl. Has export to POV-Ray capabilities.
Vision3D
Full featured facet based modeller. Exports
directly to Radiance, Rayshade, POV-Ray,
DXF, as well as other 3D formats. For the
Macintosh platform
Visual Engineering
Modeller with POV-Ray output
X-Frog Botanical Modeller
Support for POV-Ray by: Greenworks
XTC - 3D modeler for POV-Ray 3.1
XTC is a good modeler with an opengl previsualisation. Designed for use with
POV-Ray.

POV-Ray Official Versions & Resources

3D : POV-Ray Mailing List Home Page
Benchmarking with POV-Ray
This page at povray.org lists the
requirements for running the new
benchmark.pov file.
Documentación de POV-Ray en Castellano
The Internet Ray Tracing Competition
The Internet Ray Tracing Competition is an
open competition. Deadline for still image
submission is every two months; for
animations, every three months. Participants
may use any 3D rendering program they
choose. If you want to see the best there is
in 3D rendering and raytracing this is the
place to go.
Neuigkeiten / Planung - POV-Ray Help file in Duetsche
Official POV-Ray Documentation
In .PDF, .DOC, and HTML Formats
Old POV-Ray
Site contains older versions of POV-Ray that
you may not be able to find elsewhere.
POV-Ray Mac OS Info Page
This is the official Macintosh version
of POV-Ray home page located on
the POV-Ray home page. Contains
many resources related to the Mac
version of POV-Ray.
POV-Ray mailing list subscription page
POV-Ray - Home Page
Home Page of the Persistence of Vision Raytracer
POV-Ray - FTP Server
Home Page of the Persistence of Vision Raytracer - FTP server
POV-Ray Newsgroups - Web Interface
This is the web based access to the
POV-Ray news groups. This is an
invaluable resource for any and all POV-Ray
users.
POV-Ray Web-Ring
POV-Ray New Ring is a group of sites
dedicated to POV-Ray: image galeries, file
archives, tutorials, "howto's", project info,
source code patches and more, but always
related in some way or another to POV-Ray.
If you have a website devoted to POV-Ray
this is a great way to advertize it.
Texture Library 3.0
Located at povray.org - Texture Library.
The home for all PoV-Ray textures.
Unofficial POV 3.5 Insert Menu Bonus Pack
The standard Insert Menu in POV-Ray 3.5
allows you to insert header sections, object
definitions, etc. into a file you are editing
with the internal editor with only a few clicks
of your mouse. The Bonus Pack extends those capabilities with an added collection
of useful materials.

POV-Ray Unofficial Patches and Front End Programs

POV-Ray Front End Programs

Peflp Front End
Front end for POV 3.1, with a mouse selection of partial render zone ( using a reduced render image )
Pover - GUI wrapper for POV-Ray
Pover is GUI interface for POV-Ray options.
The program help's to change many options
of the POV-Ray renderer. With Pover you
can open and save configuration files for
reuse it later. You can associate Pover with
PCG files and get your work at one click. Pover may be runned in few instances and
puts little emand on system resources.
PovFront
Front end for POV-Ray under unix and similar platforms
PovMenu
PovMenu is a menu system that runs in an
rxvt window and allows you to change the
most common command line attributes for
rendering with POV-Ray and MegaPov.
PovMode for EMacs
POV-Motif
Povray Render Center
Another Pov Ray Frontend for X-Windows
(Linux), based on Perl/PerlTK. Website in
german but program in english.
Pyvon
Pyvon is an editor for POV-RAY that works
under Linux. The GUI also works with
Windows and Mac but not the raytraces.
It is mostly a GUI that enables to edit,
debug, fire up POV scene raytraces straight
from the interface.
SAB-RenderFarm
This program will allow you to set up a
distributed reneder farm to run POV-Ray
on a network of computers. This a Win95
GUI application. See page for details.
SMPOV - Distributed Rendering
SMPOV is an add-on for POV-Ray v3.5
which will allow you to render a single image
on machines with multiple processors or
across a network of computers.
UV Povmode for Emacs
VOP
Reads POV-Ray files and renders a
low-quality preview using OpenGL within
SECONDS. Runs on Windows. Useful
for fast preview of scenes when you don't
want to wait for the high quality output of
POV-Ray. Has some limited functionality
and may not support all of POV-Ray's
features.

POV-Ray Patches v2.2

POVAFX's
Enhancements for POV-Ray 2.2
POVMAN
Allows the use of Renderman shaders with POV-Ray v2.2 ?
Relativistic Raytracing with POV-Ray v2.2

POV-Ray Patches v3.0

Cmaster Distributive Raytracing POV-Ray v3.0
Cutom Patch for Mac 6200 POV-Ray v3.0
Macintosh PovIso V0.1 Alpha POV-Ray v3.02
POV-Ray V3.0 Equipotential Surfaces Patch
POV-Ray for OpenVMS Port - POV-Ray v3.02
PovSP POV-Ray v3.01 with Spline Support
PVMPOV- Paralell Raytracing POV-Ray v3.0
Will's POVRay stuff - #exec and C++ patch
Basically, the exec patch allows you to
specify an external command in the scene
file. The system executes the command and
POVRay reads the stdout. It's simple and
powerful, though my patch has only been
tested under Linux. YMMV. Patched with
POV-Ray v3.01 source code

POV-Ray Patches v3.1

Blob Pattern Patch for POV-Ray v3.1
This patch adds a blob pattern to POV-Ray.
The source is available and there is an
executable for the Macintosh platfrom.
ClothRay
ClothRay is a patched version of POV-Ray, which allows to do cloth simulation. The cloth is rectangular, and interacts with its
environement (gravity, some objects lying, wind, ...).
HyperFun for POV-Ray v3.1g
This is the Isosurface Patch for POV-Ray
3.1g that allows you to raytrace HyperFun
models on the Windows 9X and NT 4.0
platforms.
IMP POV POV-Ray v3.1g
Distributed and Network rendering plus adds
direct support for JPEG images.
MegaPov by Nathan Kopp
MegaPov is the hottest new patched version of POV-Ray in town. The patch by
Nathan Kopp ( a member of the POV-Team)
has incorporated his original UVPov patch
together with Ron Parker's SuperPatch and
Smellenbergh's Mac MultiPatch. The three
of these very competent patchs offer some
astounding new features and the added
bennefit of being combined into one source.
This version of MegaPov is based on the
official POV-Ray for Windows v3.1g
souce code and will work with the editor
for that version without problems. The
source is also available for those who wish
to compile this patch on their own platform..
MegaPov for Macintosh
MegaPov patched version of POV-Ray for
the MAcintosh platform.
MegaPov for Power Mac - MPW MrC
MegaPov for UNIX - UniMegaPov
This is a Linux/Unix version of the
MegaPov Patch of POV-Ray.
MegaPOV-Ray v0.5 OpenVMS Port
MegaPOV-Ray v0.5 for OpenVMS.
Currently only the Alpha platform is
supported as the VAX version of DEC C
doesn't support the IEEE FLOAT mode.
MPIPov
A port to MPI for distributed rendering on clusters - POV-Ray v3.1
Patched POV-Ray POV-Ray v3.1g
Smooth_Color_Triangle patch. There is a linux-i386, an SGI and a MacOS-PPC binary available for download.
Pondermatic
Discussion on setting up PVMPov as a render farm
POVMAN II
A custom patch of POV-Ray, which allows
the use of RenderMan (R) Shading
Language for creating custom pigments
in POV-Ray. Mostly compatible with
existing shaders used in BMRT, Renderman
and others. Some limitations do apply.
Pov-Ray MS-DOS SuperPatch POV-Ray v3.1g
POV-Ray Irix Binary - POV-Ray v3.1E
POV-Ray 3.1a for OS/2 WARP
POV-Ray v3.1g For OpenVMS
PvMegaPOV
PvMegaPOV brings a set of extensions to
the popular POV-Ray 3D rendering
package, and is built on the Parallel Virtual
Machines library. The rendering can thus be
distributed on several machines on a
network (preferably a fast LAN), through the
use of a master server and several client
crunchers. Using several clients on a node
also enables to take benefit from
multi-processor computers.
PVMPOV - Andreas Dilger POV-Ray v3.1e
QDOS/SMS Port POV-Ray v3.1g
PVM-POV Version 3.1e.1
POV-Ray Rendering in Parallel
SAB-POV / Stereo-Modes and RoundView-Camera v3.1g
Stochastic Radiosity Patch Page
In July 1999, I wrote a patch for PoV 3.1g that implements a stochastic ray-tracing
technique using hemisphere sampling (Monte Carlo integration) to compute global
illumination. I named it the "Stochastic Global Illumination" patch. It's totaly
independent from the actual radiosity code in PoV.
Tesselation patch
The Tesselation patch will allow
you to tesselate common POV-Ray objects
into triangles which then may be
manipulated or *possibly* exported to be converted to other 3D file formats. Linux only at this time.
UniPatch
By Jon A. Cruz - Allows use of unicode ttf fonts in Pov-Ray v3.1

POV-Ray Patches v3.5

Density_File Extension Patch
The density_file pattern in POV-Ray 3.5 is
extremely flexible. It may be used anywhere
any pattern, functions, etc. However, the
resolution of the density_file in the official
version is only 8 bit and there are only two
interpolation options (no interpolation and
tri-linear interpolation). These are not
enough for some purposes, e.g. for
isosurfaces. Thus, I have made an unofficial
patch for the density files. Using this patch
one can use density files of float values, 16
bit integer values with binary or text format.
Furthermore, tri-cubic interpolation options are included.
POV-Ray 3.5 Patches
Site offers various new patches based on the POV-Ray v3.5 source code.

Programs Under Development

BDL Modeller - In development
Gnome
3D - Unix,SGI, etc. No windows or Mac
Jam
Metaball modeller for the Mac - in development
K4DE
KDE-based POV-Ray modeler for Unix.
Currently under development.
Particle-System for Pov-Ray
Must be compiled before it will run ! by: Andreas Hirczy:
R-Cast Distributed Rendering - In Devlopment
SoMA
Modeller for POV-Ray under development
Superficie
Superficie (surface) is a small program that
allows to visualize 3D surfaces, and to have
certain interaction with them. It allows to
rotate, to move away, to show illumination,
etc. on the surface at issue. In the future it
will be able to save a postscript file (partially
done now).

Raytracing and Rendering Programs

3delight
3Delight is a fast RenderMan compatible
renderer. 3Delight supports many of the
features required to produce photrealistic
images including motion blur, depth of field
programmable shaders, antialiasing and ray
tracing. It is currently available for IRIX,
Linux-i686, LinuxPPC and Windows 98/NT
platforms.
ADELINE
Integrated lighting design computer tool
Angel
This appears to be a somewhat limited new
renderman compliant renderer, but will
probably develop in the future.
BART Raytracer
Behemot Graphics Editor
FREE. Modeller, renderer for Win 95/NT
and Linux, with NURBS/ animations.
Chrome
Chrome is a ray-tracer written for the
Windows95 environment. It attempts to
combine the complexity of producing
realistic images from mathematical models
with the simplicity of a user-friendly
graphical user interface.
CLOE render v1.20
CLOE render v1.20 for MS-DOS, Atari, Linux and Sgi
CyberMotion 3D-Designer
Low$ shareware modeller/raytracer
Das Renderingprogramm GAMMA-RAY
DKB-Trace version 2.12
The predessor to POV-Ray v1.0
EasyRayer, the free ray-tracing library
EasyRayer is a really easy to use creator of
photorealistic syntetic scenes. The Library
is availble but you must provide your own
application for it.
GrafEq
Interval analysis based implicit curve renderer
Illuminatus
A java based raytracer
Lightflow Rendering Interface
The Lightflow Rendering Interface is an
object oriented programming interface to
synthetic rendering, which provides a
common environment and description
language to treat light distribution in three
dimensional spaces. Runs under Win95/NT
and Linux
Mental Ray
MGF Parser and Examples
Data and software for the Materials and
Geometry Format, a least common
denominator language for describing scenes
and objects suitable for physically-based
rendering applications (among other things).
Now 3D v1.8
A 3D raytracing program that offers a GUI
modelling interface. It uses mainly polygon
shape modelling with a small number of
internal primitives. The texture capabilities
are good and also offers some advanced
features like fog and particles.
Panorama home page
The Polyray download page
POV-Ray
Home Page of the Persistence of Vision Raytracer
The Poor Mans Renderer (PMR)
RADIANCE
The Raja Project
Raja stands for "Ray-Tracer in Java". The
Raja project intends to build a complete
modern Ray-Tracer using the Java
language.
Rayshade Homepage
Ray++ Raytracer
Realtime Rendering Engines Lists
Maintained by: Karsten Isakovic
The Relativistic Raytracer
RenderPark
A photo realistic rendering tool
Siren: A Simple-Image Renderer
Siren is a scanline implementation of the
RenderMan standard for describing 3D
scenes. It renders simple scenes well. It
supports most of the basic RenderMan
functionality and provides many of the
optional capabilities described in the
RenderMan standard. Siren runs under
MS-DOS.
Tachyon Parallel / Multiprocessor Ray Tracing System
Tachyon is a multiprocessor ray tracing
system which can be used as a stand
alone program, or as a library within other
programs. It supports almost any Unix-like
system, Windows, MacOS-X and BeOS, as
well as several embedded systems and high
end supercomputers.
Twilight Software
Twilight has developed a "Myst" style game
engine and also offers a free hobbiest
version along with documentation and a
sample game. The license would allow
someone to develop and publish a game
(delivered free over the internet) POV-Ray
users might find this useful for creating
their own games using POV-Ray images.
The VERA Raytracer
VERA (Very Efficient Raytracing Algorithm)
can produce realistic and non-realistic
images. The algorithm gets its efficiency
from a preprocessing step (using a regular
grid method) in connection with a subscene
technique. Besides the usual features of a
raytracer it can be used for rendering copper
plates and SIRDS.
Vivid 2.0
This is the Vivid raytracer version 2.0. It has
been out of development for several years
and will only run in a dos environment.
WinOSi
WinOSi is an Open Source, Freeware
Rendering Tool for creating real
photorealistic Images by a new algorithm,
which I have called 'Iterative Two
Pass Optical Simulation Raytracing'.
XJRT - Extendible Java Ray Tracer
An extendible Java ray tracer which utilises
XML and the Java reflection API to provide
programmable shaders. Package is open
source - free for commercial/non-commercial
use.

Shells, Spirals, and Helixes

ABWTwist: Twisted Shapes for POV-Ray
ABWTwist is a utility to create data files for
the POV-Ray ray tracer, Version 2.x and
onwards. It creates twisted spirals of
spheres, cubes or blobs that grow or shrink
in size, spiral in or out, rotate, stretch or
contract. In particular, ABWTwist is ideal for
creating organic looking twisted creatures.
Helixir
ShellyLib Home Page - Shareware
SPIRALIZER

Splines and Piping

Gimp to POV-Ray Lathe Generator
Tool which lets you easilly create POV-Ray lathe definition files using the GIMP. Must
compile source to use.
Interpolation with Polynomials and Splines
An online java based applet that lets you
visualize splines.
Piper
1.0 Beta by Mike Weber uses BSplines to
make Pipes in POV-Ray plus make spline
based animation paths
SpilinEditor
SpilinEditor is a graphical curve editor mainly
designed for POV-Ray 3.0x raytracer. You
can draw and edit 2D cubic_spline curves
used in LATHE and PRISM primitives then
obtain a 3D shaded preview (via OpenGL
library) of the corresponding object. It takes
advantage of an accelerated video card if
present.
Steve Abbott's Celtic Knotwork for POV-Ray
Torpatch Home Page
Torpatch is a data file generator for the
Persistence of Vision raytracer. Given a
series of points in space, Torpatch joins
them smoothly with sections of tori.

SoftWare Graphics - Misc.

FTP Resources

FTP
Directory has index files contents of other FTP sites
FTP server Stanford University
FTP Site Cdrom.Com
Major mirror Site for Shareware Software
FTP German
Has a little of everything
FTP MicroSoft DL Library
All of the downloadable files that MS offers
FTP: University at Stuttgart
sprechen sie Deutsch ?
Winsite
FTP mirror of files at WinSite.com - Win95 share/freeware

PhotoShop and PSP Filter Plugins

Photoshop - Plug-Ins
Commercial site
Photoshop - Plug-Ins - FF Galleries & Collections
PS/PSP Plugins
Paint Shop Pro Filters and plugins and Filter Tutorials
PS/PSP Plugins
High end Demos -some fully functional -PC & MAC avail.
Red Prince’ Atelier
Numerous plug-ins written in assembly
language for speed and small memory
requirements. Nice collection.
Toad's Slimy Mudhole
30 free PS-compatible plugins for Win and
Mac.

ABSOLUTE FREEWARE
3D Software Central
Demo's - 3d - functional and crippled mix.
Includes Real 3D, TrueSpace 2 Demo,
PSP 3.0 fully functional demo, and a
program called Mesh Paint also a fully
functional demo.
Display 189a
Program converts between many different
graphics file formats. See also display 189b.
Display 189b
Fonts & driver sources for Display
E-Cards: Christmas
FerretSoft Home Page
The software offered here offers faster web
searches and the use of more search
engines at one time.
Fractal Programs
A number of Win32 (fractal) programs by
Terry Gintz, one (FractalZPlot) being
especially interesting because of the ability
to convert the z-buffer information of its
3d-fractal types to Wavefront OBJ-format
Fractint Homepage
Fractint is a freeware fractal generator
created for IBMPC's and compatible
computers. It is the most versatile and
extensive fractal program available for any
price. A long time favorite of POV-Ray
users for background texture maps and
height field creation.
Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview
The Home Page for Ghostscript, an
interpreter for the PostScript language and
for PDF, and related software and
documentation.
GIMP Homepage
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation
Program. There is a version of the GIMP for
most any platform available
Graphic Files Conversion Programs
FTP site contains about 13 utilities for converting between different graphic file
formats. Also on this site you will find
VFD (video for dos) and DTA (Daves
targa animator) version 2.2.
Groan Zone
Graphics/Image Processing resources
Home of Jasc Software, Inc.
Makers of Paint Shop Pro
Home Planet Release 3
ImageMagick
X11 Image Processing and Display Package
PhotoLine Homepage
Sunsite Mirrors
Monster FTP Mirror Site
WinSite
Software/Shareware
Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM)
Find broken links on your site. Same
software used by the POV-Ray Linkmaster.
XNview
Viewer/converter for a huge number of
bitmap formats, available for a number of
different machines/OS (for Windows there
are even different language versions!)
ZDNet
Software Library -share/freeware, demos

Texture Editors and Tools

Arabeske Home Page
Complicated Texture Maker for Pov-Ray
Architexture
A free texture editor for Windows 9x which
will support POV-Ray 3.1 textures. It also
has a preview feature. This is basically a
front-end to generate POV texture code.
Infinity Textures Texture Maker
Infinity Textures (I-Tex) is a powerful Texture
Designer and Generator
Kelvin or wavelength to RGB converter
An online form that converts color
temperature or wavelength to RGB.
Pick o' Color
A small color picking utility.
Rendersoft Illusionae - 3D Texture Maker
Sausage Software - Reptile 2
Reptile 2 allows you to easily produce any
combination of wavy, bubbly, organic, big,
small, wide, narrow, rough or smooth
textures. And besides generating a vast
range of shapes and surfaces the program
also features a great way to color the
textures to suit the look and feel you require.
This program is free.
TC's Grapic Links
RanTex - Random Texture Generator for
POV-Ray. Both a Windows and DOS
versions available.
Texture Magic Home Page
TextureView
Tool for scanning, cataloging and viewing of
POV-Ray textures under Windows 95/ 98/
NT
Tiler
This program creates seamless textures for
use as background in web pages and other
applications. It also can create seamless tga
heightfields for POV-Ray.
UVMapper - Texture Map Creation Utility
Have you ever said to yourself "I'd love to
use this Wavefront model I found on the
web, but it doesn't have a texture map, and
without a program like Detailer or Painter I
can't figure out how to color it?" Well if you
have, then UVMapper is the program for
you.

3D Resources

Fractals

An Introduction to Fractals - Paul Bourke
Cellular Automata
Plus info on Ising Model, Feynman Checkerboard Octonian Julia fractals
Fractals and chaos
Clifford A. Pickover
Fractals
A referrence page on fractal geometry
Fractal tutorial
Fractals and scale
The Mandelbrot Set
An advanced discussion on Mandlebrot and
the Julia fractals.

Human - Animal Motion Studies

Boids
Flocks, Herds, and Schools: a Distributed Behavioral Model
Center for Human Modelling and Simulation
Dragon Wing
Surfaces using Hierarchical B-splines
Facial Animation
Links to siminars/pages/research
Flocking & Schooling
A discussion on the behavior of schooling
and flocking animals and some of the
techniques used in the computer industry
to simulate this behavior.
Framsticks
Artificial life - evolution simulation
Pursuit - Evasion games
Pursuit-evasion games model a predator
chasing prey, a missile chasing an aircraft, or the like. Unlike most other games
discussed here, the players may have to
make continuous decisions, for example
deciding on a real-valued turn angle at
every moment in time. So these games call
for different techniques than more familiar
ones.

Math and Geometry Resources and Information

3D methods
The good - looking - textured - light - sourced - bouncy - fun - smart - and - stretchy - page
Computational geometry links page
COMPUTER ANIMATION
ALGORITHMS AND TECHNIQUES
Computer Graphics
On-Line Notes UC Davis Math and algorytms
Computer Science Papers
CiteSeer Pulications is a research paper
database. It has PostScript or PDF versions
of most of the papers it lists, and there are
at least a few hundred research papers on
ray tracing listed (try it by typing "ray tracing"
in the search field).
Dave's Math Tables
Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems
Compiled originally for the CRC Dictionary of
Computer Science, Engineering and
Technology.
Eric Treasure Trove of Math Materials
Fibonacci Numbers...
This is the Home page for the Fibonacci
numbers, the Golden section and the
Golden string.
Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry
Geometry Center Welcome Page
Geometry Formulas and Facts
Geometry Junkyard
This page contains links to pages with geometry related resources. The links are very well commented and there is considerable informaiton available here
Guru's Lair Cubic Spline & Bezier Curves Library
This library shelf holds tutorials and utilities
on cubic spline use, modification, and
generation.
Hermite Curve Interpolation
Clear explanation of hermite curves and related spline calculation. Explains the math in terms of equations and matrices.
Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
A diverse collection of math releated
material.
Jones on Arithmetic
These tutorials are characterized by an
interest in doing arithmetic on machines with
just binary add, subtract, logical and shift
operators, making no use of special
hardware support for such complex
operations as BCD arithmetic or
multiplication and division. While some of
these techniques are old, they remain
relevant today.
Math Forum
Mathematical Atlas: A gateway to Mathematics
This is a collection of short articles designed
to provide an introduction to the areas of
modern mathematics and pointers to further
information, as well as answers to some
common (or not!) questions. The material is
arranged in a hierarchy of disciplines, each
with its own index page.
MuPAD Home Page
On line mathmatics
Sphere FAQ
Steve's Computer Graphics Index
The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository
Tracing Ray Differentials
SymbolicNet
Symbolic & algebraic Computation
Xah: Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves
A visual dictionary of special plane curves.
The goal of the project is to produce
materials that demonstrate interesting
properties of plane curves visually. Many
concepts or properties of plane curves such
as cusp, tangent, evolute, involute,
envelope, are more readily explained by an
illustration or animation. The mathematics in
these pages are beginning college level. Overall, this project is designed to educate and entertain.

Misc Resources

Acronym Finder
Look up 121,500+ acronyms/abbreviations
& their meanings
AltaVista: Translations
Online language translations
Render Drive
Home of the Render Drive commercial
hardware rendering system.
A Web of On-line Dictionaries I
A very comprehensive list of online
dictionaries and releated resources.
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
Copyright Law Information
Copyright , Patents,Trademarks, Intellectual Property, Data Protection
Dictionary.com
Dictionary.com Language Translator
Similar to the online language translator
at Alta Vista.
InterTran (tm) - translate between 676 language pairs!
Maps On US
A Map, Route and Yellow Pages Service
The New Hacker's Dictionary - The Jargon Lexicon
NGpaint
Make and read compact text based graphics for news groups
Overclocking of Pentiums or Compatibles
POV-Ray on a Cluster
Info on setting up POV-Ray on a cluster of
computers
POV-Ray 3.0 on-line rendering farm
A povray 3.0 on-line interface to a farm of
machines waiting to grab your pov 3.0 job
and render it and e-mail the picture back to
you! Any and all suggestions are welcome.
Currently is pretty basic, but gives priority to
smaller jobs.
POV-Ray Resources and Executables
The Realtime Raytracing Realm
A series of demos done to prove that real time raytracing is possible.
TechEncyclopedia
Techno Jargon Encyclopedia
Time Service Department
US Naval Observatory
U.S. Copyright Office Home Page

Programming sources

3D Data Formats
Comprehensive list of 3D geometry formats
Borland C++ Compiler 5.5
The Borland C++ Compiler 5.5 (BCC) is the
core of Inprise's C++ compiler technology.
Borland C++ Compiler 5.5 is a blazingly fast
32-bit optimizing compiler. It includes the
latest ANSI/ISO C++ compliance including
the RTL, the STL framework and C++
template support. And now, Borland C++
Compiler 5.5 is openly available for free
download! Those wishing to compile the
Windows version of POV-Ray for
themselves *might* find this the perfect free
solution.
Exaflop
Programmers resource, loads of cool
graphics programming related docs.
Game Developer Magazine Companion Source Page
A series of articles/programs about
3D-modelling & programming, including IK, meshes, particle systems etc. Source code
for example given.
GLE Tubing and Extrusion Fact Sheet
The GLE Tubing and Extrusion Library is a
graphics application programming interface
(API). The library consists of a number of
"C" language subroutines for drawing tubing
and extrusions.
Global Illumination using Photon Maps
Magic Software
The initial code base originated in 1991 as
an attempt to answer questions that arise in
my favorite news group, comp.graphics.algorithms, and has been
growing ever since. MAGIC is intended to
provide free source code for solving
problems that commonly arise in computer
graphics, image analysis, and numerical
methods.
Metropolis Light Transport
We present a new Monte Carlo method for
solving the light transport problem, inspired
by the Metropolis sampling method in
computational physics.
MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics) Home Page
A PNG-like Image Format Supporting
Multiple Images, Animation and Transparent
JPEGs.
Modeling and Rendering of Metallic Patinas
An important component that has been
missing from image synthesis is the effect of
weathering. In this paper, we present an
approach for the modeling and rendering of
one type of weathering---metallic patinas.
Open CASCADE on Line
The Open CASCADE Object Libraries are
reusable C++ object libraries for producing
all types of domain-specific graphic modeling
applications. The Open CASCADE
Application Framework is included with
Open CASCADE 3.0. It is a Rapid
Application Development framework that
increases your productivity by organizing
and specifying your application data and
architecture, structuring applications that
are associative by definition, managing
modification history and automatically
assigning storable attributes to objects.
OpenGL terrain
Source example of using OpenGL for the
generation of 3D terrain.
Paul Debevec Home Page
Projects in Image-Based Modeling,
Rendering, and Lighting
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Home Site
The Programmer's Link Page
3D graphics programming links
Real-Time Radiosity
A discussion on implementing Real-Time-
Radiosity.
Real-Time Rendering Resources
STEEL's Programming Resources - Tutorial Collection
An extensive collection of links to tutorials
and information sites on the various
algorithms used in the 3D graphics
industry.
Tracing Ray Differentials
Antialiasing of ray traced images is typically
performed by super-sampling the image
plane. While this type of filtering works well
for many algorithms, it is much more efficient
to perform filtering locally on a surface for
algorithms such as texture mapping.....
Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
The VRMLworks is here to start you from
wherever you are and take you a little
farther in Virtual Reality Modeling Language
(VRML). Site contains technical info,
resources, models, links, and history of
the VRML language.
Wotsit
Programmer's File Format Collection

3D solid construction methods

3D VSSP
Marching Triangles
1998 SIGGRAPH Course: Subdivision for Modeling and Animation
A Caltech course on subdivision surface on
line notes.
An Introduction to Physically Based Modelling
Applied Research Associates
3D Surface Scanners
CG&A: Abstract: On-the-Fly Texture Computation For Real-Time Surface Shading
This article explores the issues related to
rendering realistic surfaces using standard
texture-mapping hardware. Such hardware
enables the rapid rendering of color-mapped
surfaces with interpolated surface shading.
By computing textures on the fly using new
algorithms, this article extends the domain to
bump mapping, Phong shading and
reflection mapping in combination. The
efficiency of the algorithms arises from a
combination of caching data in parametric
arrays and using tables for fast evaluation of
shading functions. These tables are
computed efficiently by making use of
angular coherence.
Comp. Animation
3D Surface Scanners
Computer Graphics Research
This site is a comprehensive source of
information of computer graphics,
languages, programming in computer
graphics, and a source of papers from
siggraph. Very nice collection and ha a
unique method of presentation.
Displacement Mapping
In displacement mapping, the surface is
actually modified, in contrast to bump
mapping where only the surface normal is
modified. This means that displacement
mapped surfaces will show the effect even
at the silhouette.
Distributing Points on a Sphere
Eingel Surfaces Research
The purpose of this page is to briefly
illustrate without formulas the actual frontiers
in surface representation research for
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided
Geometric Design. A survey of the most
commonly used surface primitives with their
limitations follows, as well as a review of the
new directions of research. Many of those
new ideas are quite ready to be already
introduced in a modeling package.
F-rep Home Page
Function Representation in Geometric Modelling & Computer Graphics
Geometric Modelling
On-Line Notes - UC Davis. Covers a wide
variety of techniques used in 3D solids
construction including subdivision surfaces
and others.
Geometry Caching for Ray-Tracing Displacement Maps
We present a technique for rendering
displacement mapped geometry in a
ray-tracing renderer. Displacement mapping
is an important technique for adding detail to
surface geometry in rendering systems. It
allows complex geometric variation to be
added to simpler geometry, without the cost
in geometric complexity of completely
describing the nuances of the geometry at
modeling time and with the advantage that
the detail can be added adaptively at
rendering time.
Georgia Tech University
Animation Research Lab
Graphic Papers Online
This is a very comprehensive site that
hosts graphics research papers. All may
be downloaded for free.
Implicit Surfaces
Implicit Solid Modelling Home Page
Implicit surfaces research University of Washington
Local illumination (part II)
Computer Graphics: Image Synthesis Techniques.
L-systems tutorial
Math Surfaces
Implicit and Parametric formulas for 3D
shapes + images. Gallery of beautiful and
unusual mathematical surfaces, with the
POV scene sources that made them.
Looking for Klein bottles, knots, or moebius
strips, check here first!
Polyhedra, Platonic solids, Polytopes
Practical Analytic Model for Daylight
Research paper and images.
Published Papers - MIT Computer Graphics Group - LCS
A data base of published papers on
methods used in the 3D computer graphics
industry,
The Recursive Ray Tracing Algorithm
This paper is intended to inform the reader
of how the basic ray tracing algorithm works.
It will take a very simplistic approach to the
explanation, avoiding the mathematical
perspective traditionally used by many
books and papers on the subject. It is
intended primarily to inform the curious,
rather than to teach the ambitious.
Sphere distribution problems
A list of pages concerning the frequent question ``How can I arrange N points evenly on a sphere?''
Subdivision Surfaces
Subdivision Surfaces
There are 3 papers on subdivision surfaces
available from this page.
Subdivision Surfaces
An overview of subdivision surfaces and
related research papers. Illustrations are
provided.
Subdivision surfaces at extraordinary points
H. Prautzsch: Analysis of Ck-Subdivision
surfaces at extraordinary points written in
German.
Subdivision Surfaces Links
This is a small collection of pointers to
introductory information on subdivision
surfaces.
Totally Tessellated
Totally Tessellated: An Introduction to
Tessellations
Uniform illumination of a sphere by N light sources
A luminous flux hitting a surface creates a luminance pattern that is dependent on the angle between the target surface and the
incoming light. The following problem is discussed and some numerical solutions are presented.
V.Bulatov's polyhedra collection
A discussion on Spherical Platon's polyhedra

University Graphics Programs

A-Z Listing of Research & Development
An extensive listing of graphics related
research and development programs and
projects.
Computer Graphics Research at Caltech
Cornell Program of Computer Graphics
Georgia Tech - Animation Lab
Modelling, Rendering and Animation of Implicit Surfaces
Modelling-3D-Geometry Pages - Paul Bourke
ProtienDataBank Home Page
Realistic Modeling and Rendering of Plant Ecosystems
Stanford University Graphics department
Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
Site offers information on their new render
farming service.
Swinburne Supercluster Render Farm
Supercomputer resources availale for
rendering POV-Ray images and animations.
Resources also available for other graphics
programs.
University Demonstration Index
Motherload of Physics mtrls w/photos - Too many subjects to list
University North Carolina
3D geometry center
University of Washington GRAIL
Graphics and Imaging Laboratory

3D Tutorials

Using 2D in a 3D World
An interesting discussion on when to use
2D objects in your 3D scenes. The topic
is not program specific so will apply to any
3D work that you may do.
3DCAFE'S FREE TUTORIALS
Covers most modelling programs and a couple related to POV-Ray animations
Anatomy of an Explosion
Defining the effect - multi platform
COMPUTER ANIMATION
ALGORITHMS AND TECHNIQUES
CSG reference
Warp's CSG reference. Show how the
various CSG operations in POV-Ray
work.
Exaflop
Programmers resource, loads of cool
graphics programming related docs.
FRACTINT L-systems tutorial
FuzzyPhoton - The Raytracing Repository
Site tries to explain the basics of raytracing
from a technical point of view.
Height Fields in Raytracing
General dicussion on theory, format, and use of
Ideas The Twenty-first Century Strain.
Running short of new ideas for scene
development? Don't know where to start?
Need a new challenge? Check out the
ideas we present. Perhaps your motivation
is just a click away...
Imaging the Imagined : Modeling with Math & a Keyboard
The math, theory & practice of rendering, imaging, and animation. Has some excellent
interactive demonstrations to browse
through.
Introduction to AutoCAD
Leveller Documentation - About Heightfields
A consice discussion on what height fields are and the technology behind their creation
LParser Tutorial
L-systems tutorial - general
Modelling the Surface of the Human Cortex
Informally describes a project aimed at
generating a computer based surface model
of a human cortex.
SPatch_tutorial
Modelling Human Heads
Terrain
General discussion on the computer
generation of terrain using various
techniques.
Terrain information Page Micro tutorial
The Recursive Ray Tracing Algorithm
An Excellent introduction to Raytracing
The White Flame Page of Learning - Algorithms
Sick of hearing people name off algorithms
that you should use, yet you have no clue
what they are, much less how to implement
them? Sick of people who won't take the
time to explain algorithms and instead
reference you to a book that you can't
afford? Well, here's some info to help you
out, for both the beginner and the
advanced.

POV-Ray Tutorials

About while loops and POV-Ray
How to make double spirals, moebius,
screws, snails and ammonites (English and
German).
Adding Glows with PSP5
Details a process for post-processing your
POV-Ray scene file to add realistic "glows"
to objects like light bulbs using Paint Shop
Pro.
Andrew's POV-Ray Tips, Tutorials, and Help
Advanced POV-Ray Animation for Beginners
by - Steve Strickland
An Introduction to POV-Ray
Basic Introduction to POV-Ray
Christoph's Page
Has some great material for some of POV-Ray's more advanced features including isosurfaces, radiosity and Warps.
German and English versions available.
Creating a Forest Scene with Leveller and POV-Ray
This tutorial hosted by the creator of
the program Leveller explains how to
create a vegetated landscape scene
using the Leveller heightfield editor and
POV-Ray v3.1+.
Creating Caves with Heightfields
This tutorial shows a method of creating
caves and grottos using POv-Ray's height
field object.
Creating realistic brick patterns in POV-Ray
POV-Ray Brick Tutorial
Difference Mini Tutorial
Paul Dawsons Page
Expanding POVRAY World
Basic tutorials, objects, and images.
Japanese only.
Fichiers d'aide de POV-Ray en français - POV-Ray help files in French
Traduction française de l'aide de POV-Ray
3.00 et 3.10 aux formats HTML
(consultation en ligne (3.00-3.10) ou
téléchargeable (3.10)) et d'aide
Windows téléchargeable. La traduction 3.10
(en version aide de Windows) peut
remplacer le fichier d'aide anglais d'origine.
Foundations Of 3D Raytracing (Introduction)
Greg's boids page
This page is to offer some hints on how to
run my boids algorithm to create flocking
particles. Last updated June 26, 2000.
Grimoire Table of Contents
Site contains a detailed POV-Ray tutorial
plus offers a collection of links, reviews,
and POV-Ray objects available for
download.
Halo Art 3D
Tutorials & other information
Initiation à POV (french tutorial for beginners)
From installation to macros.
Introduction à POV-ray in French
La description des mots-clefs de povray en français
Isosurface manual: Overview
A detailed overview of the isosurface
feature in the patched version of POV-Ray
called MegaPov. You will find a wealth
of information here with regards to
isosurfaces and their usage.
Isosurface Tutorial
Isosurfaces are a feature of version 3.5 of
POV-Ray. This tutorial assumes that you
have some basic knowledge of isosurfaces
and will help guide you from there.
JK's POV-Ray pages - Tutorial
Kaleidoscopes tutorial
This tutorial will teach you how to use
POV-Ray to make some very interesting
Kaleidoscopic images. It is easy to do and
the images are stunning.
Leveller/POV-Ray Tutorial
This tutorial focuses on using the program
Leveller in conjunction with POV-Ray for
landscape development. In particular it
shows techniques used to place objects
accurately along the surface of an HF
object.
Natural random with POV
Samples (palms and reeds) on how to
simulate natural disorder and controlled irregularity (English / German, with source
files).
Neuigkeiten / Planung - POV-Ray Help file in Duetsche
Online POV-Ray Tutorial
Panorama
Shows off 3D panoramas and objects
created in POV-Ray. Offers a short
discussion on the software and techniques
used in their creation.
Poly-object Tutorial
A technical tutorial on using POV-Ray's
Poly object. (Do not confuse this with the
polygon object which is different)
Poser to POV-Ray Tutorial
Contains information on how to convert
psoer models into a format that POV-Ray
can.
POV Brazil
A Brazilian site about POVRAY with Tutorials, Images, in POTUGUESE
POV is Trig
If you rotate an object, you often don’t know
where one end is. If you know where it was
to begin with, you can use trigonometry to
figure out where it will be. Or, more
specifically, you can let POV use
trigonometry to figure out where it will be.
PovPlace Tutorials
Site contains a POV-Ray tutorial page
that contains a few tips and tricks plus
a section on using MegaPov's
Post_Processing features.
POV-Ray Basics
POV-Ray Bicubic Mesh Tutorial
POV-Ray Book Project - Home Page
A site devoted to offering a comprehensive
source of tutorials dedicated to POV-Ray.
PoV Cornell Box Page
POV-Ray Galerie
Tutoriaux (A tutorial on using POV-Ray).
Contains a section on using POV-Ray's
new media function. The page is in
both English and in Française.
POV-Ray by Phong
POV-Ray, 3D Studio MAX and Photoshop Tutorials
POV-Ray Cyclopedia
This tutorial site is an attempt to present
various unique techniques used in POV-Ray
It is not a general POV-Ray tutorial site.
POV-Ray
How to in German
POV-Ray Quick Reference
This is an accumulation and refinement of
the entire syntax for the POV-Ray™ Scene
Description Language. Also provided are
the limitations for the values given with
various keywords. Note that the syntax
conventions used here are slightly different
than those used in the official user
documentation which may be acquired at
the - http://povray.org - site.
Pov-Ray tips
Tutorials cover texture creation, scene
creation and layout, use of the camera,
and a section on using POV-Ray's random
number function.
POV-Ray Tips, and Tricks, and Techniques
POV-Ray VFAQ
This is must reading for all new users of the
program POV-Ray. This faq answers the
most commonly asked questions in the news
groups and was put together by many
experienced volunteers.
POV-Ray's Wood Texture Tutorial
POV: Scripting Tutorial
This is a tutorial on using POV-Ray's
advanced scripting abilities. It covers
the sensible use of declared variables,
how to use POV-Ray's special directives
and functions, plus it has a good section on
the creation and use of POV-Ray's macro
function.
POV Ray Study Gallery
Step by Step instruction to the POV Ray script with Picts. Also includes resource links.
Radiosity test 2
Not so much a tutorial as it is an example of
POV-Ray's radiosity feature. There is a
comments section that shows the
paramenters used and why they where
choosen.
Realistic skies with POV-Ray
A description with sample files about realistic skies and sunshine.
Realistic water with POV-Ray
This tutorial should give a more or less
complete introduction into the POV-Ray
features that can help to create realistic
water. It is based on the POV-Ray 3.5
syntax and features, but most of the things
described here are also possible in megapov
with some minor changes.
Rendering Times News
Robert Fremin's POV-Ray tutorial
Rune's Blob Tutorial
A great tutorial on using POV-Ray's blob
object. Tutorial does a good job of removing
some of the mystries encountered trying to understand the various features of the blob
object.
Silver Tome
A nice collection of tutorials dedicated to
the medium to advanced user of POV-Ray
StereoGrams Tutorial
How to create depth-maps for stereograms
with a 3D program like POV-Ray.
Tutorials - Persistence of Text
Understanding the POV-Ray matrix keyword
Uniform Polyhedra
Using the POV-Ray Matrix tutorial
XenoArch: How to Make a Moon
This tutorial focuses on using the new
Iso-Surface function available in the
SuperPatch version of POV-Ray for
making a moon cratered object.

POV-Ray Include, Macro, and Object Files

Include Files

2D Parameterization Include File
Include file for generating nearly any
parameterizable surface.
3D Parameterization Include File
Include file for generating nearly any
parameterizable object. The object can be
used in CSG.
5 POV-Ray Include files
Site contains 5 POV-Ray include files
Geodesic Dome, Short torus macro,
Curve generator, Cracke Pattern (Making
objects with the shapes of the crackle
pattern), Penrose Tiling, and a Regular
Polytope. Include files page is in Japanese
only but the files are easy to use.
Abres
Tree generating include file
Anton's Lego Include File Libraries
This is very cool stuff: lego blocks for the
Persistence of Vision raytracer. You can
now put lego creations into your ray-traced
scenes! Almost as fun as the original.
#Bitwise include file
Allows for emulation of bitwise operations in
POV-Ray
Bioform.inc
Makes a host of different organic shapes
CD Include File
The RSJ Website contains an excellent CD
Disk include file
Chess2Pov
Play a game of Chess with POV-Ray Include file
Chris Colefax Include Files
Chris basicaly invented the include file and
has more include files than can be listed
here.
Edna Dorblazer Institute of Theoretical Cosmetology and Mad Secretarial Sciences
Edna has several include files worth looking at
Feather Include file
This include file will create a realistic feather
object.
Gems.Inc
POV-Ray include file with many declared
textures and diamond shapes available
Grasspatch.inc
This is an include file for making realistic
grasses with. Also on this page is a
comprehensive tutorial explaining the
techniques involved with the process.
Hexoganal grid include file
Creates A hexagonal mesh or grid like object
with selectable depth.
Illusion Include file.
The Illusion Include File lets you apply an
image to a surface in such a way that the
image when viewed from a certain point is
not deformed by perspective, neither by the
shape of the surface. You can set the point
from which the illusion is complete, that is,
not deformed. You can also set the
dimensions, orientation, and quality of the
illusion.
Inverse Kinematics Neck Include File
The Inverse Kinematics Neck Include File
(or just ikn.inc) allows you to create smooth
strings of objects which you can use for long
necks, long tails, and many other things.
IsoWood Include File
An include file for creating realisted wood
using the Isosurface function in POV-Ray.
IsoCSG Include File
POV-Ray offers very powerful CSG
functions to design objects, but an often
requested feature, bending and other
nonlinear transformations is not possible for
principal reasons. This IsoCSG library allows
you to go beyond these limitations using
new features available in POV-Ray v3.5.
Keith Hull's Moray Plugins
Inludes the following plug-in moduals-
Corrinthian Collumns, Liquid Spray, Galaxy,
and City Generator. The last three are
include files created by Chris Colefax and
are available on his home page as standard
POV-Ray include files.
Kolors.inc
Ken Tyler's KOLORS.INC file is based on
the standard POV-Ray colors.inc file but
has been enhanced with the addition of
many more pre declared colors. There are
over 550 colors in all in the file plus there
is a demonstration pov file included
complete with indexing to help you select
the correct colors for your scene.
Lighting Include file
This include file will help you to create
bolts of lightning for your scenes. It uses
recursive POV-Ray code to accomplish this.
Mathematical Art
Polynomial, fractales, bioitération, landscape and more. Site contains a gallery of image
produced using the above techniques plus
offers include files for the creation of some
of the images presented.
Media Clouds Include File
Nathan Kopps LensFlare inc.
This is very popular and excellent utility
that adds lens flares to objects in your scene.
Nebula Include File
An include file that generates nebula like
objects with different patterns.
Paul T. Dawson PTD Tree.inc
Polyhedral Include file
Povray Include files
Site contains a nice little collection of
POV-Ray include files in the plugins section.
Items available are - Trees, Effets de flare,
chaîns, Books, Stwist, Mesh, Tentacle,
Bend, Spheres and cones, Galaxy,
Explode, City, and a Horse.
POV-Ray Planitarium
Pov Planetarium is a DOS based progam
and a set of non-DOS specific include files
which can be used to model the Solar
System using the POV-Ray (tm) ray tracer.
You can use this package in non-DOS
versions of POV-Ray, but you will not be
able to compute the positions of solar
system bodies for dates other than the
example data set which is included in the
package. Additionaly, the conversion of the
background stars image also requires a
DOS based computer to run the included
converter.
POV-Ray Utilities/incs
Color-Wheel progam plus 6 include files of various types
Smokegen POV-Ray 3.1
SmokeGen lets you easily create different
types of smoke, from smoketrails after boats,
airplanes etc to smoke from a blown-out
candle or cigarette.
Sonya Roberts Include Files
Keyboard, Tree, Books, and others
Spline-Tree: Andrew's POV Files Page
A tree include file for POV-Ray v3.1
Star Field Include File
Creates customizable star fields for POV-Ray
Stereo.inc
This file creates a system for viewing
POV-Ray scene files in stereo.
STK's Page
POV-Ray includes - SelfTree, Dragon Curve
Generator., Dice, MengerSponge
Sven's Blue Page
Self-made POV-Ray-Plugins (include),
Personal Gallery, Links. Page is in both
German and English.
Theresa Willis' Motion Library for POV-Ray3.0
TomTree
Tree generating include file - Excellent utility
with many options
TREES.inc version 3.0
This is Sonya Roberts Tree include file for
POV-Ray v3.0
Useful Inc Files
Most are at THE POV-Ray Objects Collection
Vegetate
This include file will place objects at random
on the surface of any object. Requires
Ron Parkers Super Patch
XStars.inc
A color correct star include file that allows
for both color and magnitude. This a new
and improved version that allows for more
stars than the previous version.

Macro Files

58 Macro File Utilities
Download 58 useful POV-Ray macros all in
one zip file. These are from the collection at
twysted.net plus others from the POV-Ray
newsgroups. These range from object
generating files to utility in nature. See
bottom of page for download link.
Accurate Sun Position macro
A macro for calculating the position of the
sun for any given time and place on the
surface of the earth. It's cleverly called
sun.inc.
Arbre and Mur include files
Arbre.inc is a macro include file for the
generation of realistic trees in POV-Ray
and Mur.inc is a macro that makes realistic
rock like block walls similar to what you
might see in a garden or in dungeons. Both
files created by Steven Pigeon and are
hosted with persmission by Ken Tyler.
Asymmetrical Scaling Macro
The Asymmetrical Scaling Macro is a very
useful tool for scaling several parts of
objects in separate ways, for example to
create an egg shape by scaling a sphere
asymmetrically. Object merging supported
for perfect transparent objects.
Bezier.inc - Macro
A bezier spline macro include file.
Blob Man
Blob Man is a set of macros that generate a
humanoid figure from Blobs, the Head, Arms,
Legs, Hands, Feet and Fingers can all be
positioned. Hair of varying styles can be
added if required, as can image_maps for
the face.
Depth of Field Macro
Unlike POV-Ray's camera blur feature this
file will allow you to adjust the out of focus
point in your scene
Geodesic V2 macro
This macro include file creates evenly
distributed points on a sphere like a
geodesic dome By: Uwe Zimmermann
Gear mess
These tools, featuring an ANSI C
program and a Pov-Ray 3.1 macro, can
create complex gear sets ready to be used
for any purpose you could find for them.
These gears have several interesting
properties that you will find useful. See site for
additional information.
Icosahedral Kaleidoscopes
POV scene files for (1) and icosahedral kaleidoscope, and (2) regular and irregular star polygons, compounds of polygons, with spheres on the vertices and cylinders on the edges.
John VanSickles Thoroughly Useful Macros and Include files
John has a great collection for any POV-Ray
users tool box and an exellent tutorial on
using the POV-Ray matrix feature.
Lattice Work Macro
The Latticework macro can produce 31
different designs and with three different
cross types and can apply the texture at
three different levels all within the macro
so that you can have as many different
types of latticework in one scene as you
like.
Lens Macro
Create magnifying lenses with just two
macro parameters: lens radius and
thickness. Two example refractive glass
materials included.
Macros - SoftForm, XTree, and Voetbal
*SoftForm, is an INC with a macro that
creates (flat) polygons with rounded
edges. It also has shortcuts to create
several polygons, including stars.
* XTree is an include-file that creates
simple Xmas-type trees.
*Voetbal (soccer ball) is yet another
ball-macro but this one is (for) kicking!
MakeTree
By Gilles Tran - Make Very realistic Trees in
POV-Ray. This file keeps evolving and is
very much in demand.
Mesh Box Macro
This small macro makes it possible to build
a box consisting of mesh triangles, with an
input of only two vectors (just like in the
regular box object statement). Useful for
exporting from POV-Ray.
POV-Ray Macros
Fill - Box or Cylinder with Spheres Macros
POV-Ray Object Files by Gilles Tran - A True Master of the Art
Site includes a Macro Tree file, Grass
generation, Window Blinds, Brick Walls,
Special Shape extrusion Macro, 19th
Century Lamp Post, Folding Deck Chair,
Odd Pipe connecting Macro file, Glass
w/liquid object, Broken Egg, and Angel
Wings object.
POV-Ray Stuff
Site contains several useful macros;
param.inc, twovar.inc, coons.inc, lathe.inc,
msm.inc, prism.inc.
PTD Tree 3
A new tree include file by Paul T. Dawson.
This tree include file uses macros to create
the tree and is based soley on triangles for
signifigant reduction of memory usage.
PUT Macro
An interesting macro that connects two
pre-declared points. You will have to see
the site to understand the function of
this one.
Regular 3D Polygon Generator
A POV-Ray macro used to generate regular
3D polygons. Great for making tiles! This is
a direct download only. No web page
available.
Rounded Box Macro
Do you wish to use a box without sharp
edges in a scene, but a superellipsoid isn't
quite the thing you want? Try this macro to
get some smooth edges without placing all
those spheres and cylinders.
Random function Macro
A macro shortcut for a mathematical
calculation: input is a range (two different
numbers), output is a random number in that
range (i.e. smaller than the maximum and
larger than the minimum).
Subdivision Surface Suite
A subdivision surface is a method of
generating curving surfaces by taking a
mesh of polygons, and refining those
polygons by replacing them with smaller
polygons, each derived by a set formula
from the polygons of the prior generation of
the surface. The resulting polygon mesh,
over successive generations, approaches a
smooth curve. The Surface Subdivision
Suite is, as its name implies, a suite of
macros which enable the user to take a
coarse triangle mesh and smooth it into
something that appears far smoother.
Tim's Resource Page
Site contains various macro utilities and object files for download. Visit site to see
what is available.
Triscan Macro for MegaPOV
Triscan.mcr is a macro definition file
designed to work with MegaPOV's new
features, such as trace(), min_extent,
max_extent, and so forth to produce a
simulated surface scan of a #declared POV
object, and export it as a triangle mesh in
RAW or LSL format. RAW files can then
be converted with programs such as 3DWin
or Crossroads to a number of other formats,
and LSL files can be directly imported into
the Leveller height field editor.
Tyres
This macro for is Megapov 0.4 and up and
makes it quite easy to make realistic tires,
and allows for user-defined treads.

Object and Scene Files

ABC Wood Letter Blocks
Archive of imagination
POV-Ray scene files and objects -Misc.
Brilliant Cut Diamond
Castle Object
Free POVRAY model of a medieval building.
Crimson Illuzion's Site - StarWars Models, POV-Ray Textures, and Utilities
Site contains a nice collection of StarWars
models in POV-Ray format, some POV-Ray
v2.2 textures, and a small collection of
POV-Ray utilities.
Cyberbust Gallery
Mostly an exhibit of his work Has POV-Ray
files available too.
Dast's POV-Ray page
Eyeball, Candle, Padlock, Array include files
for POV-Ray v3.0
Digital asteroid models
Digital models (wavefront and POV-Ray
formats) of real asteroids derived from radar
images. .Pov and .inc files available.
Digital Mavica Camera modeled in Povray
The digital camera around which this page
was built got assembled in the Povray
language with 206 frame level objects.
Eurêka 2.12 (French site)
Appears to be a vrml 3d mplicit / parametric
surface modeller.There are POV-Ray models
available at this site.
Friedrich Lohmueller gallery
While-loops with POV-Ray - how to create
twisted rings - samples with POV-Ray scene
files by F. A. Lohmueller.
Hardy´s POV-Objects and more
Steam-machine, animations
INTER-STATION 3D - The homepage of Toni Bratincevic
A nice collection of object macros.
Jayz models
Moray-files Electronics, Office, Bathroom
misc.
Keith Hull's Moray Plug-In's
Math Surfaces
Implicit and Parametric formulas for 3D
shapes + images. Gallery of beautiful and
unusual mathematical surfaces, with the
POV scene sources that made them.
Looking for Klein bottles, knots, or moebius
strips, check here first!
Media Example Scene File
This example pov file shows how to use
color list patterns (checker, brick, and
hexagon) inside a media density statement.
Nathan O'Brien Inc. files
Columns and poolballs
NTMY's Digital Home
Some images, made with Povray 3.0. Mostly Starships and things of that kind . Also some
textures.A texture-library can be downloaded
and maybe also some starship-models.
OuterArm POVRay Objects
Page has 5 POV-Ray objects. Newtons
cradle, pencil, pencil holder w/pencils,
coffee cup w/mat, and a flexible neck
desk lamp.
Parametric POV-Ray Objects
A nice collection of parametric architectural
3d objects for POV-Ray.
Planetary Maps
POV-Ray Galerie
Ma galerie personel , des objets et des
tutoriaux (This site offers a gallery, POV-Ray
objects, and a tutorial on using POV-Ray).
The page is in English and in Française
POV-Ray Images
Source files available for study by:
Kurt Bangert and Carola Blaesing-Bangert
Be sure to see the section with images and
sample code for using media.
POV-Ray Models
Various high quality models in POV-Ray and
other formats.
POV-Ray Objects
Site contains a very nice collection of
objects in POV-Ray format. See the models
section.
POV-Ray Objects Collection
Over 155 Excellent POV-Ray objects in
one place You are invited to contribute to
the collection.
POV RAY - Recursos en la Red
Lista de las principales direcciones de
Internet relativas al POV Ray: Libros,
tutoriales, objetos, texturas, plug-ins, FAQs,
listas de correo, grupos de noticias, etc.
POV-Ray Scene File
With cliffs, helicopter and waterfall - source
available
PTD_SNOW
Make Snowflakes in POV-Ray
Ray-Tracing Files
POV-Ray mixed collection
Raytraced Graphics Polar -E
Mathematical objects created in POV-Ray.
Source available.
Softy 3D models gallery
POV-Ray, 3D Studio and Lightwave free models.
Star Wars: The POV-Ray Collection
Space Shuttle
POV-Ray Model Project of the US Space
Shuttle
Steiner Surfaces
Advanced discussion on Steiner surfaces -
POV-Ray source files available.

POV-Ray People Pages

Andrew Glassner's Home Page
Not really a POV-Ray person but is a well
known pioneer in the CG industry.
Anto Matkovic's Page
Anto offers a gallery of his art plus some
excellent tutorials on using sPatch.
Bob's omniVERSE Page
Bob has long been a visitor to the POV-Ray
newsgroups and you will often find him there
helping others. You will find many interesting
things at his site and is well worth the visit.
The Book of Beginnings - Gilles Tran
Gilles is a true artist. If you want to see mind
blowing raytraced images this is the site to
visit. Besides being an accomplished artist
he even managed to find time to make some
of his personal utilities available to the public
Time will be well spent visiting this site.
Le Livre des Commencements - Gilles Tran
Chris Cason
Chris Cason is the POV-Ray team
coordinator and is also responsible for the
windows version of POV-Ray. While not as
publicly visible as some of the other team
members Chris is a driving force behind
POV-Ray. Chris maintains the POV-Ray
home page, organizes the contents of the
IRTC CD's, maintains the POV-Ray news
server, and takes on the responsibility of
funding all of the online resources for the
POV-Team. Povray.org is his home page.
Dennis Miller's Page
Friedrich A. Lohmueller
Descriptions, tutorials and samples for the POV-Ray raytracing program.
First Strike at Pearl
Glenn McCarter and the elusive N.B. offer
this site showcasing how they modelled
this incredible award winning IRTC entry.
Source code available for study.
GALAXY No13
Nathan O'Brien a master of POV-Ray and
frequent winner of the IRTC competition
H.E. Day's Homepage
This site offers the work of H.E. Day one
of the most accomplished POV-Ray hand
coded blob modellers of all time. Never
have you seen such a variety of space
releated objects created with POV-Ray
blobs as you will find here. H.E. Day is
also a long time visitor to the POV-Ray
news groups and promises to have some
blob modelling tutorials comming soon.
IB Rassmusan home page
Ib Rasmussen is an old hand with POV-Ray
and his work is excellent. At this page you
will find his image gallery plus he offers a
section with POV-Ray related tips and
techniques.
KressWorks Home Page
Lightning Generator
A French Portal into the world of POV-Ray.
Margus Ramst
The Home page of Margus Ramst a member
of the POV-Ray Technical Assistance group. You will find a few useful resources here.
Mark's Wagner's Home Page
Mark's page offers some POV-Ray related
materials and has an interesting section on
math.
Mathematical Art
Polynomial, fractales, bioitération, landscape and more. Site contains a gallery of image
produced using the above techniques plus
offers include files for the creation of some
of the images presented.
Mick Hazelgrove's Art Gallery
Mick shows what a teacher of art can
do with POV-Ray. An outstanding
presentaiton of POV-Ray's capabilities
and Mr. Hazelgrove's talents.
POV-Ray Users Website
On the POV-Ray Users Website, users of
POV-Ray can find information about each
other. You can find general information,
see photos, read biographies, and more! In
the Submit Info section you can submit
information about yourself.
POVray.co.uk
An up to date source of information and
resources related to POV-Ray. Includes
public announcments, news articles, resources, and links to cool stuff
POV-TAG - The POV-Ray Technical Assistance Group
Established by the POV-Team (the current
authors of the Persistence of Vision
Raytracer) in late 1999, the TAG is made
up of selected members of the POV-Ray
user community. The purpose of the TAG is
to aid the POV-Team in supporting users of
POV-Ray around the world, using the
collective knowledge of the group to answer
users' POV-Ray questions and to bring
POV-Ray related matters to the attention of
the POV-Team as required.
Pod - Home Page
Here you will find a gallery of Pod's work
plus he has a download page with several
progams he has written. A couple of these
are useful for converting between different
color formats.
The RSJ WebSite
Site contains 3D images, include files,
stereograms, tutorials, The POV Desktop
Theme, The POV-Ray Logo Contest,
music, 350+ raytracing jokes, and much
more! Maintained by Rune Johansen a
regular contributor in the POV-Ray news
groups.
Robert A. Mickelsen's Secret Spot
Robert like Truman Brown and Dan Farmer
is a long respected member of the POV-Ray
community. If you want to see some
incredible art created with POV-Ray this is
the place to go.
Remco de Korte
Games - Art - Design - Remco de Korte.
Offers some interesting programs including
a nice program for fonts with support for
POV-Ray.
Steve's 0 PPS Home Page
Mostly a gallery of his work but has
POV-Ray source files for the images
available.
Steve Anger's Homepage
Steve is a former member or the POV-Team
and is considered by many a legend in the
POV-Ray community. This site offers some
of his incredible art work, links to other
artists, and a good list of links to POV-Ray
utilities.
Thorsten R. Fröhlich Website
Thorsten Fröhlich is a POV-Team member
and is now responsible for the Macintosh
port of the program. Thorsten is active on
the POV-Ray news groups and manages
the Official Mac-OS info page at povray.org
Uncle Tyler's Get Away
Maintained by: Ken Tyler who proudly
proclaims that he has the largest list of
POV-Ray related links ever made available
on the net. Ken freely donates his time
helping other POV-Ray users on the
POV-Ray newsgroups and on c.g.r.r. plus
he maintains the links page at povray.org
and is now a member of the POV-Ray
Technical Assistance Group.
United Artists Galleries
This page is a collection of images created
by various users of POV-Ray. The images
are all of excellent quality and really show
off some of it's capabilities. The source code
for the images is available for study and
you are encouraged to donate your art work
to the collection.
Very Cool Place
A gallery of images of both scenes and objects. Source code available for download.
Warp's Homepage
Warp is known in the POV-Ray community
for his motion blur and compressed mesh
utilities and also the proud maintainer of the
POV-Ray VFAQ. Warp is very active in
the POV-Ray news groups and is now a
member of the POV-Ray Technical
Assistance Group.
The World of POV-Ray Users
This page offers a map of the locations of
POV-Ray users from around the world.
The World of POV-Ray Users Submission Page
Add yourself to the world map of POV-Ray
users with this submission form.