In article <39676599$1@news.povray.org>, "Walter" 
<wal### [at] 7staJFHKgescom> wrote:

> I understand better now. I thought Pov-Ray was a graphics program, 
> but it's only half the package.
> 
> Looks like I have to spend money if I want a complete package. Oh, well.
> 
> I do love what ray tracing can do...

It really depends on what you want to do...2D image editors are useful, 
no matter what you are doing. And modellers can be helpful in making 
some complex objects quickly, but there are many people who use POV-Ray 
and only POV-Ray to generate images. There are some things that are much 
more efficiently done in POV-Script...mathematical shapes, and highly 
repetitive structures, for example.
A "complete graphics package" would likely have to consist of every 
graphics program ever written, for every platform. POV targets a 
specific niche of computer graphics, and fills it quite well.

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