Package: povray (1:3.8.0~beta.2-2 and others) [debports]

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Experimental package

Warning: This package is from the experimental distribution. That means it is likely unstable or buggy, and it may even cause data loss. Please be sure to consult the changelog and other possible documentation before using it.

Persistence of vision raytracer (3D renderer)

POV-Ray is a full-featured ray tracer. Ray tracers simulate objects and light sources of the real world to calculate photorealistic, computer generated images. Because of the nature of ray tracing, this process is quite CPU-intensive, at the benefit of more realistic images compared to real time rendering techniques. For example, in POV-Ray, you can model a glass prism, and you will see a spectrum in the resulting image.

POV-Ray by itself is a command-line utility that will take scene descriptions, written in a special easy-to-understand language, to produce ray-traced images (or even a sequence of images, for animations). You can either write those scene-descriptions by hand, or use external tools to generate (parts of) the scene.

povray-includes is highly recommended in addition to this package.

Other Packages Related to povray

• dep: libboost-thread1.83.0 (>= 1.83.0)

  portable C++ multi-threading

• dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.34)

  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb

• dep: libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4)

  GCC support library

• dep: libimath-3-1-29 (>= 3.1.9)

  Utility libraries from ASF used by OpenEXR - runtime

• dep: libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1)

  libjpeg-turbo JPEG runtime library

• dep: libopenexr-3-1-30 (>= 3.1.5)

  runtime files for the OpenEXR image library

• dep: libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2)

  PNG library - runtime (version 1.6)

• dep: libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.15)

  SDL 1.2 binary compatibility library wrapping SDL 2.0

• dep: libstdc++6 (>= 13.1)

  GNU Standard C++ Library v3

• dep: libtiff6 (>= 4.0.3)

  Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library

• dep: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)

  compression library - runtime

• rec: povray-includes

  Persistence of vision raytracer (3D renderer) include files

• sug: povray-doc

  Persistence of vision raytracer (3D renderer) documentation

• sug: povray-examples

  Persistence of vision raytracer (3D renderer) sample files

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Architecture	Version	Package Size	Installed Size	Files
alpha (unofficial port)	1:3.8.0~beta.2-2+b1	1,375.0 kB	4,768.0 kB	[list of files]