2.1 Introduction

POV-Ray 3.6 for UNIX documentation 2.1.1 Program Description

2.1.2 What is Ray-Tracing?

2.1.1 Program Description

You know you have been raytracing too long when ...
... You wonder which raytracer God used.

-- David Kraics

The Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer creates three-dimensional, photo-realistic images using a rendering technique called ray-tracing. It reads in a text file containing information describing the objects and lighting in a scene and generates an image of that scene from the view point of a camera also described in the text file. Ray-tracing is not a fast process by any means, but it produces very high quality images with realistic reflections, shading, perspective and other effects.

2.1 Introduction

2.1.1 Program Description

2.1.2 What is Ray-Tracing?