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Are there any modern alternatives to POV-Ray?
by sztanko 2y ago
Are there any modern alternatives to POV-Ray?
- dagw 2y agoDepends what you mean? If you want a modern high performance ray tracer with support for all the latest hardware and implementing all the cutting edge ray tracing research, there is Embree and OptiX. They don't however come with their own scene description language, which is what made POV-Ray so popular in the first place.
- sztanko 2y agoI was thinking for some python (or similar language) api for Ray tracer that doesn't have a steep learning curve and is easy to use.
- kristianp 2y agohttps://mitsuba.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html https://mitsuba.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html There seems to exist python front ends to embree. How good this one is, I don't know.
- zokier 2y agoOpenUSD is probably the closest thing in terms of scene description? You have both Python Api and human-readable ascii format
- _pferreir_ 2y agoDoesn't Blender's main rendering engine, Cycles, sort of use ray tracing (path tracing, I believe)?
- jlarocco 2y agoWhat's wrong with using POV-Ray?
- shric 2y agoNothing, except it's thousands (literally) of times slower than alternatives because it uses primitives instead of meshes and therefore doesn't lend itself well to GPU parallelization
- opentokix 2y agoYes, you can use renderman https://renderman.pixar.com/install https://renderman.pixar.com/install