Warp wrote:
> 
>   Isn't renderman a similar program? That is, it doesn't have a modeller
> of its own, but it's just a renderer taking text input?
>   Still, renderman is considered a professional program.
> 

Pixar's RenderMan is also just a renderer, but otherwise I think it is quite
different from POV, with a different design goal. AFAIK it is a scanline
renderer (although it can use the BMRT raytracer as a "ray server"). Also it has
a relatively low-level scene description language and as such is more of a "pure
renderer" which is really not meant to be used without an external modellel.
Of course the fact that most high-end modelling tools support it doesn't hurt,
either...

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