POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : question : Re: question Server Time
30 Jul 2024 10:23:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: question  
From: Jim Charter
Date: 21 May 2004 08:53:33
Message: <40adfbcd$1@news.povray.org>
juliette wrote:
> what is the difference between Povray and megaPov??
> t.i.a.
> juliette
> 
> 
POV-Ray is the Official version of the program as developed and enhanced 
by the POV Team.  Because the computer source code for this version is 
also made public under certain restrictions, other very talented 
programmers can take that code and add other (often experimenal) 
functionality to it and contibute those versions, called "patches" to 
the community on their own websites.  Some have collected the more 
useful and trustworthy additions found in these "patches" and combined 
them into a sort of super-patch and call it MegaPOV.  They have allied 
themselves into a team themselves so that this version, which constantly 
looks to incorporate new, experimental patches from people, can also be 
maintained to a very high standard of trustworthiness.


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