William Peska wrote:
> Is it possible using POV-Ray to create (relatively) the same depth of
> (optical) realism achieved in the following images?:
> http://www.deviantart.com/view/8446028/
> http://www.deviantart.com/view/6422537/
> http://www.deviantart.com/view/4328986/

Those all are relatively unrealistic demo scenes of very low complexity. 
    It is no problem to create similar images with POV-Ray.  You can 
find a collection of examples of the render quality possible with 
POV-Ray on:

http://www.povray.org/community/hof/

> Is the current version of POV-Ray comparable to mental ray in all rendering
> related features?

That question does not make any sense because the answer has to be 'no' 
for any two programs (just like 'Are apples comparable to peaches in all 
their properties?').  You can of course do a lot of thing with POV-Ray 
you can't do with mental ray.

Christoph

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