I've just released a new freeware utility program
that might interest you:
http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/imawww/thaller/wolfgang/vop-intro.html

VOP is a program that parses POV-Ray scene
description files and renders them using OpenGL.
While the resulting 3D images are not as nice as
POV-Ray's, VOP is anywhere from five to two thousand
times faster (depending on situation and measurement
method).

As you can imagine, this can be very practical for
designing scenes and animations. The downside is that
it doesn't yet support the entire scene description
language - but I think it already supports more of it
than any other program besides POV-Ray itself.

There's a Windows compile available and I could probably
compile a version for RedHat Linux 7.1, too, if somebody
really wants it.

I'm looking forward to your feedback.

Cheers,

Wolfgang Thaller

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