David Buck wrote:

> Very strange.  When POV-Ray was first written, there were no .obj, .mdl 
> or .3ds formats.  POV-Ray used its own format which developed into a 
> sophisticated programming language for scene design.  Because of this 
> design, we are able to do amazing things with POV-Ray which can't be 
> done with traditional scanline algorithms working on polygon meshes. The 
> results can be breath-taking and are IMHO unrivaled in the scanline world.

Even Pixar's renderer turns to ray-tracing for some of its effects.

Regards,
John

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