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Contact Information

If you wish to contact us for purposes other than technical support, the following means are available:

Via email:

team-coord-[three-letter month]-[four-digit year]@povray.org

for example, [email protected] should be used if at the time you send the email it is the month of June 2004. The changing email addresses are necessary to combat spam and email viruses. Old email addresses may be deleted at our discretion.

Note: Please do not send bug reports or technical support requests to this address. Use our forums or bugtracker for technical support or bug reports.

Via postal mail:

The following postal address is only for official business. Please note that it is preferred that initial queries about licensing be made via email; postal mail should only be used when email is not possible, or when written documents are being exchanged by prior arrangement.

    Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.
    PO Box 407
    Williamstown,
    Victoria 3016
    Australia

Support Library Licenses

Licenses for Support Libraries used by POV-Ray

OpenEXR

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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Citing POV-Ray in Academic Publications

To reference POV-Ray (e.g. in academic papers), you may use one of the below:

Note: The year should be replaced with the year of your publication.

  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/

Contributors to POV-Ray

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

Other Support:

Brendan Scott of Open Source Law and the folks at The Software Freedom Law Center: Advice and drafting of documents regarding licensing.
Intel Corp. and AMD Corp.: Optimization advice, performance testing.
DigiCert Inc.: Code signing and SSL certificates.
Netplex LLC (Connecticut's largest independent ISP): Dedicated hosting of the POV-Ray server for more than ten years.

Thanks

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped make POV-Ray what it is over the past two decades. We can't possibly list you all here but be assured that we appreciate your support - without you this project would not be here!

Questions and Tips

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