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Summary of changes in version 3.5:
Major new features:
* New noise functions
* Photon mapping
* Dispersion
* Improved Radiosity
* New light sources
* Light groups
* Isosurface and parametric objects
* Sphere sweep object
* New mesh object
* UV Mapping
* Improved textures
* Improved and faster media
* New patterns
* Functions
Additional new features:
* Reading of JPEG and TIFF image formats
* Projected through
* More realistic attenuation
* New clock keywords
* New image size keywords
* Inverse transform
* Spherical camera
* New float function: inside
* Splines
* Metallic reflection
* Mapping using warps
* Double illuminate flag
* No image and no reflection flags
* Basic Unicode Support
* Declare a float constant from an INI file
Bug fixes and enhancements:
* Light source enhancements
* Fixed normal average, reflection and other related problems
* Fixed cylinder camera problems
* Fixed the use of multiple closed bezier-splines in prism
* Fixed infinite cone bug
* Fixed the use of two subsequent colors, not separated by a comma in
checker, hexagon and bricks.
* Fixed gamma correct bugs
* Numerous other bug fixes and optimizations
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POV-Ray(tm) Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer
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The Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray-Tracer creates three-dimensional,
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photo-realistic images using a rendering technique called ray-tracing.
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It reads in a text file containing information describing the objects
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and lighting in a scene and generates an image of that scene from the
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view point of a camera also described in the text file. Ray-tracing is
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not a fast process by any means, but it produces very high quality images
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with realistic reflections, shading, perspective and other effects.
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