Resources

This page is a small collection of useful links, macros, objects and tips that I have built up over the years of using POV-Ray. Much of this may be applicable to other rendering software too.

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Macros, include files and recipes:

	Mesh erosion
	Arches
	Moons
	Rounded tetrahedron include

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Links:

POV-Ray artists: Gilles Tran Jaime Vives Piqueres Christoph Hormann Tekno Frannansa Tim Nikias the Lohmullers Rune Rene Bui Jim Charter Tor Olav Kristensen

POV-Ray tutorials: Mike Williams Warp Christoph Hormann

Graphical resources: POV-Ray - official home page. MegaPOV - an unofficial version of POV-Ray with many useful patches. POV-Tree - a tree mesh generator for POV-Ray. Planet maps - useful for making planets! Moray - a free modeller for POV-Ray. PoseRay - a 3D mesh converter (including POV-Ray). Daz3d - human figures and props. Blender - an excellent free 3D modeller. The GIMP - a free image manipulation program, similar in ability to Photoshop or Paintshop. InkScape - a free and extremely useful vector graphics editor. It can export lines and curves as POV-Ray splines.

Miscellaneous graphics links: CGSphere.com - a good 3D challenge.