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Tutorial - What is POVRay? by ~AllicornUK:iconAllicornUK:

Categories Resources & Stock Images > Tutorials > Digital Art > 3D Art > POV-ray

©2009 ~AllicornUK
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I get asked a bit what "POV" is or how I made a certain piece (and POV is usually the answer). So I thought it might be neat to make a tutorial-type presentation that answers the question What is POV-Ray?.

I think it's a wonderful prog but I'm aware that it's not everyone's cup o' tea. Designing three dimensional scenes entirely in your imagination and then describing them in numbers can be a daunting prospect but I think - if you have a look at this one and it doesn't immediately make you run off screaming then maybe you might want to give POV a try. :-)

It's possible I might make some "how to use POV-Ray" tutorials after this - depends on demand.


Examples:
These gloopy tentacles were made with POV.
This explosive little emote-style animation was done entirely in POV
POV can even make fractal art!

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Mood: Joy ~Lonely-Mitsukai Mar 30, 2009, 9:28:08 AM
Ohh how interesting.
:D
It's wonderful you made a tutorial for this!
:D

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~AllicornUK Mar 30, 2009, 4:08:51 PM
It's a funny old thing, POV. Most people who I try to explain it to just look at me funny... "Why would you want to use something with no GUI?" :crazy:

Hehe. So hopefully the little tutorial explains it better than I normally do. It's like legos inside your head :D

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~CerealMunchies May 30, 2009, 5:52:07 PM
Actually, a GUI could be even more daunting than no GUI. You make it seem like POV is easier to use than GUI driven applications. :clap:

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~CerealMunchies May 30, 2009, 5:52:14 PM
Actually, a GUI could be even more daunting than no GUI. You make it seem like POV is easier to use than GUI driven applications. :clap:

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~Danath Sep 23, 2009, 1:15:00 AM
It really isn't my cup of tea, but you presented it very good and answered the question I was asking (Wtf is povray???)^^

I like the Style of the presentation very much! Cool work

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~AllicornUK Sep 23, 2009, 1:45:13 AM
Thanks, glad to help :-)

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Mood: Joy ~aarqon Nov 1, 2009, 9:35:53 PM
Haha. I run into the explanation bit myself quite often.
All the art kids are like "What? You can't make art with..with numbers! Computers can't be artistic! I can draw more realistically than that!"
To which I have responded:
"Try caustics and refraction on your little paper. Try drawing a mathematically perfect sphere without tracing it. Try drawing a fractal. Just try."

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~AllicornUK Nov 2, 2009, 12:23:21 PM
POV is a wonderful thing for sure and - it seems - few people really "get" it. I do rather suspect that it takes a certain sort of mindset to conceive scenes in CSG and then describe them without the typical meshes and orthographic views of "regular" 3d modelling software.

I often use POV as a kinda sketch tool when starting on non-raytraced projects too. A quick and dirty model in POV can help me think about viewer position, lighting and perspective in ways I find difficult to do with a pencil and a blank sheet of paper.

As for realism (which clearly is not really my field of expertise ;-) ) - some of the stuff in the POV Hall of Fame is just stunning!

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"Any sufficiently advanced vocabulary is indistinguishable from piffle"
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~aarqon Nov 2, 2009, 5:52:23 PM
POV as a sketch tool...
That's actually a good idea, now that you mention it.

Yeah, I once spent nearly 20 minutes explaining handedness to a Calculus student. :/ Go figure.

Also, did you hear? They restarted the IRTC! This month's topic is steampunk. I'm psyched.

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