If you require support with the competition itself, or wish to offer feedback, please visit our feedback page.

The Persistence of Vision Raytracer has its home on the web at www.povray.org. At that site you can obtain more resources than we offer you with respect to using POV-Ray. In particular, the povray.org news server (also via nntp) has many tens of thousands of messages from users and operates as an extremely effective peer support system.

Note that if you have never used a raytracer before, you may be surprised at the way POV-Ray works - it is not a 'typical' 3d application which provides a point-and-click graphical interface. If you have any doubt about what can be done with a program like this, though, all you need to do is visit our Hall of Fame.

Here are some useful links to POV-Ray resources:

• The POV-Ray web site.
• Our download page.
• "POV-Ray: A Tool for Creating Engaging Visualisation of Geometry"
• The POV-Ray TAG (Technical Assistance Group).
• The POV-Ray Questions and Tips site (essential resource!)
• How to use Outlook Express with the POV discussion groups.
• The POV-Ray discussion group dedicated to this competition (also available via nntp).
• The recent message digest from the POV-Ray site.
• The POV-Ray online documentation and Printable documentation.
• The IRTC CDROM's - a good resource for newcomers.
• The POV-Ray site has a large 3d links collection (a bit dated).
• The amazing Short Code Competition (results).
• The fascinating oyonale.com with its Book of Beginnings, Tool List and Graphic Resources.
• The Persistence of Ignorance (ignorancia.org).
• The Moray 3d modeller (shareware).