====== POV-Ray ======
I like to hand-code POV-Ray scenes and think there should be more visual references and advanced tutorials for the POV-Ray SDL.


===== References =====
A few people have posted visual POV-Ray references.

[[http://www.wikipov.org/|O p e n W i k i - POV-Ray Wiki]]\\
[[http://www.kolban.com/3d/portfolio/index.html|Portfolio]]--The standard POV-Ray portfolio rendered\\
[[http://www.imagico.de/pov/cr_form.html|Christoph's page - crackle form parameters]]\\
[[http://www.imagico.de/pov/cr_metric.html|Christoph's page - crackle metricoffset parameters]]\\
[[http://objects.povworld.org/cat/|POVObjects -]]\\



===== Tutorials and Tips=====
There are a few tutorials around.

[[http://book.povworld.org/|POV-Ray Book Project - Home Page]]\\
[[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/POV-Ray:_POV-Ray_3D_Rendering|POV-Ray POV-Ray 3D Rendering - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks]]\\
[[http://warp.povusers.org/povtips/|4 tips to improve a simple POV-Ray scene]]\\





===== Contributions =====
So far, I've posted one and have some under development.
  * [[povray:stainedglass]] is also at [[http://www.wikipov.org/ow.asp?StainedGlass|O p e n W i k i - Stained Glass]]
  * [[povray:geshi]]
  * [[povray:underwaterfakecaustics]]
  * [[povray:axialtexture]]



===== Rendering Services =====
These are resources available to render POV-Ray scenes.

[[http://www.imp.org/|IMP]]: The Internet Movie Project\\
[[http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sc_fe_l_2/102-6100069-1129757?ie=UTF8&node=201590011&no=3435361&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA|Amazon EC2]] 10¢/hr/instance\\