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    Victoria 3016
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OpenEXR

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  Persistence of Vision Pty. Ltd. (2013)
    Persistence of Vision Raytracer (Version 3.7)
    [Computer software].
      Retrieved from http://www.povray.org/download/

or

 
  Persistence of Vision Pty. Ltd. (2013).
  Persistence of Vision (TM) Raytracer.
  Persistence of Vision Pty. Ltd., Williamstown, Victoria, Australia.
   http://www.povray.org/

The POV-Team

Primary POV-Ray 3.7 Core Architects/Developers: (alphabetically)

Chris Cason: Developer 1993-, team leader 1999-, Windows version, SMP implementation, mesh camera, BSP bounding, too many other contributions to list here
Thorsten Fröhlich: Developer 1996-, Mac developer, frontend-backend messaging system, SMP implementation, too many other contributions to list here
Christoph Lipka: Developer 2009-, core code improvements notably radiosity, gamma handling, sslt and too many others to list

Nicolas Calimet: UNIX development
Jérôme Grimbert: Mapping warps, image meta-data, the ovus object, several list patterns, additional render block items, and other core code contributions.
James Holsenback: 3.7 documentation, POV-Wiki, various Unix/Linux, and scene file contributions
Christoph Hormann: UNIX development
Nathan Kopp: Photons, u/v mapping, other contributions
Juha Nieminen: area_illumination, cubic pattern and cubic warp, fractal patterns, other contributions

Past POV-Team Members and other Note-Worthy Contributors: (alphabetically)

Claire Amundsen: Tutorials for the POV-Ray User Guide
Steve Anger: POV-Ray 2.0/3.0 developer
Randy Antler: MS-Dos display code enhancements
John Baily: RLE targa code
Eric Barish: Ground fog code
Thomas Baier: 3.1 team member, tester
Dieter Bayer: Wrote sor, lathe, prism, media and many other features
Anthony Bennett: Scene files, documentation
Kendall Bennett: PMODE library support, paletted display code in Windows version
Steve Bennett: GIF support
Thomas Bily: Implicit and parametric surfaces
Dale C. Brodin: Alpha & Beta tester, forum support
Eric Brown: no_image, no_reflection, orient and circular area_light
Matthew Corey Brown: pigment function, warps, projected_through
David Buck: Original author of DKBTrace, POV-Ray 1.0 developer
Edward Coffey: Fade_color
Aaron Collins: Co-author of DKBTrace 2.12, POV-Ray 1.0 developer
Chris Dailey: POV-Ray 3.0 developer
Steve Demlow: POV-Ray 3.0 developer
Andreas Dilger: Former Unix coordinator, Linux developer, PNG support
Joris van Drunen Littel: Mac beta tester
Alexander Enzmann: POV-Ray 1.0/2.0/3.0 developer
Dan Farmer: POV-Ray 1.0/2.0/3.0 developer, author of many features, sample scenes, and textures
Daniel Fenner: Splines
Hans-Detlev Fink: Slope pattern
Charles Fusner: Blob, lathe and prism tutorial tutorials for the POV-Ray User Guide
Mark Gordon: Unix developer
David Harr: Mac balloon help and palette code
Michael Hazelgrove: Scene files
Jimmy Hoeks: Original Help file for v3.0 Windows user interface
Christoph Hormann: Scene & include files, documentation, insert menu
Chris Huff: Object pattern, Interior texture, inverse transform
Bob Hughes: Scene and include files, insert menu
Ingo Janssen: Scene & include files, documentation
Mike Hough: Spherical camera, Media method 2, uv_mapping for bicubic_patch
Rune S. Johansen: Scene & include files, documentation
Greg M. Johnson: Scene files
Terry Kanakis: Camera fix
Kari Kivisalo: Ground fog code
Alan Kong: Alpha & Beta tester, forum support
Lutz Kretzschmar: Moray author, MS-DOS 24-bit VGA, part of the anti-aliasing code
Tor Olav Kristensen: Scene files
Jochen Lippert: Sphere_sweep
Friedrich Lohmülller: Version 3.7 scene file clean-up and Windows insert menus.
Charles Marslett: MS-Dos display code
Pascal Massimino: Fractal objects
Jim McElhiney: POV-Ray 3.0 developer
Robert A. Mickelsen: Artist, 3.0 docs contributor
Mike Miller: Artist, scene files, stones.inc
Fabien Mosen: Scene & include files
Douglas Muir: Bump maps, height fields
Joel Newkirk: Former Amiga developer
Jim Nitchals: Mac version, scene files (Jim - famous also for his anti-spam crusades - passed away on 5 June 1998 but his contributions to POV-Ray and responsible use of the internet will not be forgotten)
Paul Novak: Texture contributions
Wolfgang Ortmann: Splines
Dave Park: Amiga support, AGA video code
Redaelli Paolo: Former Amiga developer
Ron Parker: Core code, jack-of-all-trades
David Payne: RLE targa code
Ansgar Philippsen: Smooth color triangle
Jaime Vives Piqueres: Mesh camera scene files
Bill Pulver: Time code
Anton Raves: Alpha & Beta tester, Mac contributor
Dan Richardson: 3.0 Docs
Tim Rowley: PPM and Windows-specific BMP image format support
Eduard Schwan: Former Mac version coordinator, mosaic preview, docs
Daniel Skarda: Implicit and parametric surfaces
Wlodzimierz Skiba: Windows BMP file support, non-Microsoft compiler build support for POVWIN versions prior to 3.7, bug fixes
Robert Skinner: Noise functions
Yvo & René Smellenbergh: Clock & Image_size keywords
Erkki Sondergaard: Alpha & Beta tester, 3.0 Scene files
Ryoichi Suzuki: Isosurfaces
Zsolt Szalavari: Halo code which was later turned into media
Scott Taylor: Leopard and onion textures
Gilles Tran: Scene files
Massimo Valentini: Optimizations to sphere_sweep and superellipsoid, bug fixes.
John VanSickle: Cells pattern
Mark Wagner: Splines
Timothy Wegner: Fractal objects, PNG support
Drew Wells: POV-Ray 1.0 developer, POV-Ray 1.0 team coordinator
Daren Scot Wilson: Dispersion
Chris Young: Team leader 1992-1999, parser code, other contributions too numerous to list here

Contacting the Authors

The POV-Team is a collection of volunteer programmers, designers, animators and artists meeting via the internet at http://www.povray.org/. The POV-Team's goal is to create freely distributable, high quality rendering and animation software written in C++ that can be easily ported to many different computers. If you have any questions about POV-Ray, please visit our web site for the latest contact information, or see the online version of POVLEGAL for the current team coordinators address (this changes from time to time whenever too many email spammers harvest the address).

If you have a question regarding commercial use or distribution of POV-Ray, please contact Chris Cason, the development team coordinator, via the above method. Please do not email us directly for technical support - use the below-mentioned forums. We generally do not answer emails requesting support if the sender has not first asked in the forums or read the documentation.

See our web site and particularly our forums for online peer support. The forums have a bug reporting group; please however discuss the issue in the povray.general group prior to lodging a bug report as we may already know of the issue (or it might not even be a bug).

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