POVRay vs ADESK 3D-Stud
25-Apr-93 19:58:11
Sb: #20465-POVRay vs ADESK 3D-Stud
Fm: Chris Young 76702,1655
To: Peter Singer 100024,1603
POV-Ray is free while 3DS costs a couple thousand dollars. POV-Ray has no GUI
or built-in animation support. You describe objects using the POV-Ray
language. POV-Ray is a ray tracer so it does reflection, refraction and
accurate shadows. 3DS is z-buffered polygons and doesn't do ray tracing.
Read action !