In article <mat### [at] netplexaussieorg>,
 Matthew Pace <mat### [at] lycoscom> wrote:

>   hi, my names matt, you may have recently seen me in the new users or 
> tutorials area.  I have been using povray for almost a year, off and on, 
> now, and i love it.  i am disappointed, however, at the lack of 
> modelers.  my first question, does anyone know of any free ones worth 
> using (even for X11, i have started using that recently).  secondly, i 
> am thinking of making a modeler for povray (this may take awhile).  
> would you be willing to pay $5 or $10 dollars (as i have no job, no car, 
> and need some income) for a modeler that did meshes, splines, bicubic 
> patches, and possibly more advanced stuff?  would you prefer carbon or 
> cocoa?  would anyone like to help in making the program?  im looking for 
> suggestions, ideas, and general input right now.  thanks for your time,
> ~matt

Take a look at Art of Illusion, available here:

http://www.artofillusion.org/

It's a free, open source 3D program, written in Java and does modeling, 
animation, rendering, procedural textures etc. Someone wrote a POV-Ray 
3.5 export module and in my experimentation with it so far, it does a 
nice job of writing out POV-Ray files, including textures.

It runs real well on my B&W G3 in OS X. The developer uses a Mac, and I 
think he's done most, if not all the development in OS 9. I'm pretty 
impressed with it so far.

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