The links
Some important links
(among so many others!)
The must-see
- The official POV-Ray homepage
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Official homepage driven by the POV-Team where you could find an impressive collection of links about POV-Ray and general 3D, along with the downloads of the various versions of POV-Ray.
- IRTC : The Internet Ray-Tracing Competition
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The IRTC manages two regular competitions (one for stills and the other for animations) open to all skill level, background and 3d packages. It is suggested for the competitors to show the sources of their pictures, but this is not mandatory. You should find in this webpage a real goldmine of information that should help you to improve your skill and.. why not, compete yourself?
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The french documentation
- The revisited french documentation
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Also hosted at the POV-MONDE website, this documentation is not a translation of the official documentation, but a brand new documentation revised by great french users like Fabien Mosen, for example.
- Unofficial translations of the POV 3.0, 3.1 and 3.5 documentations
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You can find on this website the unofficial translation of the documentation for the 3.0, 3.1 and 3.5 POV-Ray versions. Unfortunately, the documentations are only available for download in the Windows Help format.
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POV-Ray portals
- Lightning Generator
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French portal about POV-Ray, BLender and general 3D.
- POVRay.co.uk
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English Portal for POV-Ray. This website also hosts a webring dedicated to POV-Ray.
Ressources and galleries
- Le POV-Monde ("The POV-World")
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A french website driven by the famous men from the POV-Monde.
- Oyonale - graphic experiments
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Gilles Tran won many rounds of the IRTC. This is his website, a must-see.
- The POV-Ray Objects Collection
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A very interesting website offering a large collection of objects POV-Ray 3.1, 3.5 or MegaPOV. It also features a collection of interesting links about POV-Ray.
- POV WIP (Work in Progress)
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Cool website where french POV-Ray users show their WIP pictures in order to get feed-back from the community of other POV-Ray users. dead link since the hacking of Tuxfamily