On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 08:36:59 +1000, Chris Cason wrote:

>> Are there corporate or academic interests that help keep POV-Ray afloat
>> and in active development?
> 
> No.

Just a perhaps random thought, but perhaps someone in the community has 
ties into SIGGRAPH (part of ACM) or a similar academic organization who 
might have members interested in helping revive/reinvigorate the project, 
particularly student developers who could be mentored on the code.

Even if it generated a fork similar to MegaPOV as a "research fork", that 
might increase interest in the main branch development.

There's a lot of interest around ray tracing technology in general 
(generally GPU-driven, particularly real-time work in the gaming 
industry, but also from what I have seen, also in the film industry).  
That might be an area to look for capable developers who maybe don't 
currently know about the project's existence.

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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