![]() Much more elaborate images can be seen on the POVRay site. If you don't have a programming or math background, I'd suggest sticking with a modeller. I edited the scene description script for POVRay using a plain text editor, no modeller was used. POVRay is available for virtually every operating system and other modellers (as well as many other utilities) are available through links from the POVRay site at:Īs a crude example of what can be done with POVRay, here is a restaurant scene I started work on sometime back and never finished. ![]() If you are running Windows, there is a very powerful modeller (think 3D CAD) called, Moray, that works with POVRay to create stunning results. You can get BRL-CAD from the Army Research Laboratory site at:Ī very powerful and also FREE ray tracing engine, by the name of POVRay is also available on the net. The entire package is distributed in source code form." 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 BRL-CAD Package is a powerful Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system. The description from the site is as follows: (Development paid for with tax dollars.) You do have to fill out a form and register it to get a key to use it, but it's quite a package for the price. Don't know what operating system you are running, but there is a very good one available for FREE from the US military.
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