POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Commercial Povray : Re: Commercial Povray Server Time
6 Aug 2024 12:22:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Commercial Povray  
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Date: 19 Mar 2002 09:55:50
Message: <wbn0x48v5l.fsf@jones.osl.manamind.com>
["Rick [Kitty5]" <ric### [at] kitty5com>]
| pov is still distributed as it is now for free, and separate commercial
| versions are created to integrate with commercial packages that cost a
| fortune anyhow.

I think POV-Ray would find it hard to enter a market dominated by Renderman.
Sure, POV-Ray is a ray-tracer, but so is BMRT, and BMRT is Renderman compliant,
whilst POV-Ray is not.

BMRT was actually used in a scene in "A Bug's Life" because ray-tracing
was needed for a glass object. 

-- 
It's a dark day for mad science.


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