POV-Ray: Persistence of Vision Ray tracer
Overview of package
| Package: | POV-Ray |
|---|---|
| Description: | Persistence of Vision Ray tracer |
| For more information: | http://www.povray.org/ |
| Categories: | Visualization |
| License: | OpenSource (GPL Affero v3.0) |
General Usage
The Persistence of Vision Raytracer creates three-dimensional, photo-realistic images using a rendering technique called ray-tracing. It reads in a text file containing information describing the objects and lighting in a scene and generates an image of that scene from the view point of a camera also described in the text file. Ray-tracing is not a fast process by any means, but it produces very high quality images with realistic reflections, shading, perspective and other effects.
This module will add the povray command to your PATH.
Available versions by cluster
This section lists the available versions of the package POV-Rayon the UMD HPC clusters.
Versions available on the Zaratan cluster
| Version | Module tags | CPU(s) optimized for | GPU ready? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.7.0.8 | 3.7.0.8 | icelake, x86_64, zen, zen2 | Yes |