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  POV-Ray 3.0 is out.

   • m*******e@a****.***u.edu
     27/07/1996 00:00:000 UTC

     The new version of the ray-tracing program POV-Ray is now available (at
     least

     for DOS, OS/2, and Linux) at ftp.povray.org. This is the program that
     Shadow

     uses to make those cool animations he sometimes displays at I-Con. I
     haven't

     had much time to look at it, but the new version seems to incorporate
     some

     new atmospheric effects as well as prisms generated by translating
     polygons.

     I am working on and off on drawing a picture of the observatory where my

     astronomy club meets, and I have done some Saturn images showing all of
     the

     rings, just as an experiment (with v. 2.2). It'll be interesting to see
     if

     these port to v. 3.0 without changes.

     (Now if only I can figure out how to write a Windows program that
     accesses the

     VGA registers directly rather than having to use the crappy Windows
     palette

     routines...)

     --- Brian "Windows sucks" McGuinness