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  POV-Ray - 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.
 
  Download POV-Ray 3.6  
 

This page will provide you with links to the official POV-Ray version 3.6 binaries and support files. All POV-Ray files are covered by one of our licences, as below:

  • Use of POV-Ray is governed by our end-user license You must agree to this license before using any POV-Ray software or files. The installation or use of POV-Ray indicates your agreement and it is thus not necessary to write us saying so.
  • Distribution and Modification of POV-Ray is governed by our distribution license and source license. Please refer to those documents before re-distributing or modifying any POV-Ray files.

    POVCOMP 2004    

Don't forget POVCOMP 2004 is running from now to the middle of October. There are prizes for the top 25 images with a total prize pool valued at over $14,000.


    What's New    

Version 3.6 has many internal differences from 3.5, mostly to prepare for the move to v4.0. From a users perspective, there are no major differences in the way the program is used. There have been numerous changes made to improve stability and speed, however as a rule you should expect most scenes to render identically as compared to v3.5.

Here is a list of changes between versions 3.5 and 3.6.

The current official version of POV-Ray is 3.6.1, which was released on 3 August 2004. There is a brief list of changes from 3.6.0 available.


    Getting POV-Ray on CDROM    

Don't feel like the download ? You can get POV-Ray on CDROM for only $9.95! (plus S&H)

SciTech Software have made the official 3.6 archives available on CD-R via their online store.


    Benchmarking    

Reviewers: if you will be using POV-Ray to benchmark CPU's, please read our "benchmarking with POV-Ray" page for information that you need to know.


    Windows    

The 32-bit version requires at least Windows 95, Microsoft HTML Help and at least Internet Explorer 3 (for the HTML Help engine). Internet Explorer 4 or later is strongly recommended so as to ensure the correct functioning of the documentation.

Download 32-bit (9.7 MB) via the web or via FTP

The below 64-bit version requires Windows XP for the AMD64. It will not install on a 32-bit OS, even if it is hosted on a 64-bit CPU. If you don't know what version you need, you want the above 32-bit one.

Download 64-bit (9.9 MB) via the web or via FTP


    Mac OS / Mac OS X    

Requires at least Mac OS 9.2 or at least Mac OS X 10.2.8. Using Mac OS 9.2.2 is strongly recommended. For Mac OS CarbonLib 1.6 is required.

Note: You need at least StuffIt Expander 5.0 to unpack these archives. We strongly recommend using StuffIt Expander 5.1 (which works much better with non-US Mac OS versions).

Download (9.1 MB) via the web or via FTP


    Linux    

Requires a glibc-2.2 based GNU/Linux system running on x86 hardware. Please see this page for installation instructions. There is also a handy list of Unix tools that can be used with POV-Ray.

Download (7.2 MB) via the web or via FTP


    Documentation    

Documentation is included with all versions of POV-Ray, so you do not need to download any of the below files unless you want a printable version or otherwise prefer a different format. We provide our printable documentation in both international A4 and US letter sizes (here's why), in PDF, PostScript, and TeX formats.

Download PDF (5.0 MB) [A4] [Letter]
Download PostScript (12.4 MB) [A4] [Letter]
Download TeX (16.1 MB) [A4] [Letter]

These files are also available via FTP. In addition, you may view the documentation online as HTML.


    POV-Ray Source Code    

This source code is not needed to run the software on Windows, Mac OS or Linux, but is useful for the programmers out there who want to take a look at the source code, make modification or port it to a new platform. Note: Distribution of modified versions of POV-Ray is subject to our distribution license as modified by the terms of our source license.

Windows Source Code

Note: Not yet updated for v3.6.1 or Win64.
Download (5 MB) via the web or via FTP
Read README

Mac OS Source Code

Download (5.7 MB) via the web or via FTP

Unix / Linux / Generic Source Code

Download gzipped tarball (9 MB) [HTTP] [FTP]
Download bzipped tarball (8 MB) [HTTP] [FTP]
The bzip2 utility can be found here.
Read README


    Mirrors    

Here is a list of sites from which you may also be able to download the above binaries.

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