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| Original author(s) | David Kirk Buck, Aaron A. Collins, Alexander Enzmann |
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| Developer(s) | The POV-Team |
| Initial release | July 29, 1991[1][2] |
| Stable release | 3.7.0.0[3] 
/ 7 November 2013; 8 July 2021 |
| Preview release | v3.8.0-beta.2 (August 9, 2021[4]) [±] |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Ray tracer |
| License | AGPL-3.0-or-later[5] |
| Website | www.povray.org |
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. There are also influences from the earlier Polyray[6] raytracer because of contributions from its author, Alexander Enzmann. POV-Ray is free and open-source software, with the source code available under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license.
- ^ "POV-Ray: Documentation: 1.1.5.3 A Historic 'Version History'". povray.org. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
- ^ "POV-Ray: News". povray.org. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
- ^ "Release 3.7.0.0". 7 November 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ^ "POV-Ray Beta Release v3.8.0-beta.2". POV-Ray. 2021-08-09. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
- ^ "POV-Ray License". povray.org. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
- ^ "Polyray v1.7". Alexander R. Enzmann. Retrieved 2016-07-05.