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4 Sep 2024 07:19:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: renaming POV-Ray :-)  
From: Vincent Le Chevalier
Date: 26 Mar 2010 16:06:42
Message: <4bad13d2$1@news.povray.org>
Captain Jack wrote:
> In English, "POV" stands for "persistence of vision", which is a phrase that 
> is generally used to describe why a series of still images is perceived as 
> being in motion. So, one way would be to pronounce it out as "persistance de 
> la vision", although that's three extra syllables. 

The correct French for that is "persistance rétinienne" but I'm not sure 
a translation is the way to go, for one thing it makes it hard to search 
for info about the program.

-- 
Vincent


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