About POV-Ray

Persistence Of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray) is a ray tracer tool for creating ray trace rendered images and 3D animations.

POV-Ray is open source, released under it's own license.  This license allows for private and commercial use of the software to generate images and scenes.  The output of the software may be licensed under any license the creator chooses.

This section will provide information about where to Download POV-Ray (and provide mirrors), Tutorials on installation and use, and Examples of scenes and animations rendered with POV-Ray.  You can reach these sections by clicking the links in this paragraph, or by selecting them from the navigation pane to the left.