That is why I mentioned Jedit.
There is also a Java 3d modeler called Art of Illusion that could be merged 
with Jedit, the Java front-end could then call the POV and GIMP engines.
being able to mix modeled and hand coded POV instructions at the same time 
would be really cool, I know of no other software that lets you do this.

Such a hybrid Java front-end would provide a very complete cross platform 
package. Having a POV<->GIMP interaction under code control would open up a 
whole world of possibilities, inc the pre-rendering of static procedural 
textures, which has been shown to give a large speed up to multi-frame 
renderings, i.e. animation. (see SIGGRAPH 2001 papers )

Vahur Krouverk wrote:

> 
> 
> Sebastian Holtermann wrote:
>> 
>> Will there be a GUI for XWindows in Povray 3.5?
>> (Maybe Gtk/Qt/etc.)
>> --
>> Sebastian H.
> 
> How about Java GUI for POV-Ray, which could run on XWindows and Windows?
> I don't think, that slowliness of Java would be problem for GUI
> front-end (although its memory consumption probably would...)
> Of course Java poses its own problems, but it is probably more
> widespread (i.e. installed in more computers) than above mentioned
> packages.

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