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  1. What is POVRay?

    The Persistence of Vision Raytracer, or POVRay in short, is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics.

  2. Where can I find information of POVRay?

    POVRay was developed by Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty Ltd. It is free and the source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports.The POVRay homepage is at http://www.povray.org/.

  3. How to run POVRay on TCG@NUS?

    POVRay was ported to TCG@NUS pc grid computing platform in January 2005.

    An automated application interface or wrapper was developed to perform the job submission, results retrieval and also the final image display. The sample commands for job submission, results retrieval and display of the result are:

    Job Submission:

    Result Retrieval:

    Result Display:

 

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