My favorite collection of POV-Ray images made by OTHER people 
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Package version: 1.01

First version: 2005-10-10
Latest update: 2007-08-13

This file is compiled by:

Stefan Spaennare, Lund, Sweden

E-mail: stefan@spaennare.se

Home page: http://www.spaennare.se/index.html

POV-Ray page: http://www.spaennare.se/povray.html


Contents
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1. Introduction
2. Copy right
3. About this package an how to render the images
4. References 


1. Introduction
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Here is my favorite collection of POV-Ray images (and pov-files) made by OTHER
people. Many of them are very beautiful and advanced. As you can see I like
chess images very much.

If no one mind I will probably update this package in the future.


2. Copy right
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Important note. These files (pov-files and images) are copy righted
work. Most of them are sample (demo) files that comes with POV-Ray version
3.0 or newer. You MUST contact each author (see information below and in the
header of each pov-file) if you want to use the pov-files or images for any
commercial use.

On my POV-Ray web-page the images are presented only in low resolution (400 x
300 pixels) to not make them useful for high quality reproduction or printing.
By downloading this package and the included pov-files you can render the
images to any size for private use.

If you feel uncomfortable because these images are shown and the pov-files are
possible to download on my web-page, please contact me and I will immediately
remove them.


3. About this package and how to render the images
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This package includes two directories FAVPOV31 and FAVPOV36 containing the
pov-files. To render the images do the following.

Download POV-Ray (version 3.6 or higher for Linux or Unix) from:

http://www.povray.org

Copy the executable to the directories FAVPOV31 or FAVPOV36.

Run one of the "do*" scripts to render an image. For example:

>chmod +x do*
>dochess2

Or all the images at the same time:

>doall

The resolution of the images is by default 1200 x 900 pixels but can be
changed in the "do*" files. In this size they take up to a few minutes to
render on a 1 GHz class computer or better.

Probably these files can be rendered also with POV-Ray for Windows without
problems. Use WinRAR to unpack the package under Windows. It can be downloaded
for free.


4. References 
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This reference information is extracted form the header of each pov-file. 

The pov-file chess.pov is the same as chess2.pov but slightly modified
by the author of this document. The pov-file teapot.pov has different
background colour than the original pov-file (also changed by the author of
this document).

chess2.pov and chess.pov
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// Persistence Of Vision raytracer version 3.5 sample file.
// POV-Ray scene description for chess board.
// By Ville Saari
// Copyright (c) 1991 Ferry Island Pixelboys

glasschess.pov
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// Persistence Of Vision Ray Tracer Scene Description File
// File: GlassChess.pov
// Vers: 3.5
// Desc: Three glass chesspieces.
// Date: 1999-06-22
// Updated: 2001-07-27
// Auth: Ingo Janssen

pawns.pov
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// Persistence Of Vision raytracer version 3.0 sample file.
// "Pawns", a study in wood... three pawns on a chessboard
// File by Douglas Otwell

teapot.pov
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// Persistence Of Vision raytracer version 3.5 sample file.
// Utah Teapot w/ Bezier patches
// adapted by Alexander Enzmann

cluster.pov
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// Persistence Of Vision raytracer version 3.0 sample file.
// Recursive cluster of mirrored spheres
// After a classic, Sphereflake, by Eric Haines


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