Ooh. Interesting. Thanks for the info, Vahur. *goes to see exluna.com* :)

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Rune wrote:

> "Hershel Robinson" wrote:
> 
>>why POV-Ray is the best ray-tracer available today
>>and why I shouldn't bother wasting my time investigating
>>the others, even the free ones.
>>
> 
> POV-Ray has high-quality rendering output, advanced scripting capabilities,
> but not least a fantastic user community. I don't think you can find any
> other ray-tracer with a community around it as inspirering and helpful as
> this one.


The Blender community is alive and well, too.

Although Blender is not a raytracer.


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Ron Parker wrote:
> 
> Why should we waste valuable ray-tracing time trying to convince you?
> Try it for yourself; if you like it, use it.  We're not a cult, you
> know.

Which is good.  It was taking me away from the Cult of Evil Sex Magic.

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Hershel Robinson wrote:
> 
> why POV-Ray is the best ray-tracer available today and why I shouldn't
> bother wasting my time investigating the others, even the free ones.

If you use another freeware ray-tracer, your gonads will atrophy.

If you use a commercial ray-tracer, your gonads will atrophy, and you
wont have enough money to get treatment.

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Hershel Robinson wrote:
> 
> why POV-Ray is the best ray-tracer available today and why I shouldn't
> bother wasting my time investigating the others, even the free ones.

No.

By all means, go investigate them.

-Xplo

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"Hershel Robinson" <her### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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> why POV-Ray is the best ray-tracer available today and why I shouldn't
> bother wasting my time investigating the others, even the free ones.
>
> Thanks,
> Hershel
>

Community, support, price, flexibility, development, capability, power, plus
much much more!
If you find an image renedered by some other software that you like, post it
and challenge someone to duplicate it.  I guarantee within a week someone
will have it for you. I have been using POV for about 7 years now and would
highly recommend it to anyone.  I could go on and on, but I'm sure others
will do that for me.

-tgq

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> The Blender community is alive and well, too.
Not anymore.
> Although Blender is not a raytracer.
>
>
RAY

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"RAY" <RAY### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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>
> > The Blender community is alive and well, too.
> Not anymore.
How is that so?
Maan

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In article <3c99f80a$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Maan M. Hamze" <mmh### [at] pleiadesnet> wrote:

> > > The Blender community is alive and well, too.
> > Not anymore.
> How is that so?

Blender itself is apparently quite dead. I wouldn't describe the 
community around a dead product as "well" (as in "attracting new users" 
and actively growing and developing), though it will probably remain 
"alive" for a long time. People just usually aren't interested in 
learning a product that is no longer being developed.
Maybe someone will start a clone project or the company will release the 
source code, that would keep the community alive and well.

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POV-Ray TAG e-mail: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
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> How is that so?
> Maan
>
>
 Take a look at their site.

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