POV-Ray scene description

File Format
Name	POV-Ray scene description
Ontology	Electronic File Formats 3D and CAD/CAM Models POV-Ray scene description
Extension(s)	.pov, .inc
Released	~1992

POV-Ray scene description is the input format used by the POV-Ray (Persistence of Vision Raytracer) raytracing software. It is a plain text format.

POV-Ray originated as a successor to DKBTrace (see DKBTrace scene description).

Specifications

• POV-Ray documentation
• http://www.fileformat.info/format/pov/spec/index.htm

Software

• POV-Ray
  • Old POV-Ray versions

Sample files

• POV-Ray Object Collection
  • Thumbnails
• http://cd.textfiles.com/blackphiles/PHILES/3DOBJ/ (see the index)
• dexvert samples — poly/povRay

Links

• POV-Ray website
• Wikipedia:POV-Ray
• POV File Format Summary, from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats