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POV-Ray

What was then called STAR-Light, and later renamed to PV-Ray and ultimately POV-Ray, has therefore been on this planet for a whopping 9, 190 (or 11, 000) revolutions by now (plus another guesstimated 150 above it).

POV-Ray Alternatives

The best POV-Ray alternatives based on verified products, community votes, reviews and other factors.
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    KeyShot 3D rendering and animation software is the fastest, easiest way to create amazing, photographic visuals of your 3D models. Enter your search in the box aboveTryYour download of KeyShot is only moments away.

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    Blender is the open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation.

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    Learn why V-Ray for 3ds Max’s powerful CPU & GPU renderer is the industry standard for artists & designers in architecture, games, VFX, VR, and more.

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    LuxCoreRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine.

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    Redshift is an award-winning, production ready GPU renderer for fast 3D rendering and is the world's first fully GPU-accelerated biased renderer.

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    Cycles is Blender’s ray-trace based production render engine and in development since 2011.

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    iC3D is the first real-time all-in-one package design software that lets user generate live 3D digital mockups on-the-fly.

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    appleseed is an open source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects.

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    FurryBall is an extremely fast rendering system using the processing power of GPU instead of CPU.

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    Arnold is an advanced Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer built for the demands of feature-length animation and visual effects.

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    Clarisse iFX is a 2D/3D animation software which is the fusion of an animation package, a compositing software and a 3d rendering engine.

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    OGRE3D is a scene-oriented, 3D engine written in C++ that is designed to help developers produce application utilizing hardware-accelerated 3D graphics.

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    Maxwell Render is rendering software for its quality and realism, and delivers great results via a simple set-up, which lets user focus on lighting.

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