POV-Ray
| POV-Ray | |
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| Original authors | David Kirk Buck, Aaron A. Collins, Alexander Enzmann |
| Developer | The POV-Team |
| Release | July 29, 1991 |
| Stable release | 3.7.0.0 
/ 7 November 2013; 8 July 2021 |
| Preview release | v3.8.0-beta.2 (August 9, 2021) [±] |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Ray tracer |
| License | AGPL-3.0-or-later |
| Website | www |
| Repository | |
The Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer, most commonly acronymed as POV-Ray, is a cross-platform ray-tracing program that generates images from a text-based scene description. It was originally based on DKBTrace, written by David Kirk Buck and Aaron A. Collins for Amiga computers. POV-Ray is free and open-source software, with the source code available under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license.