An Introduction to POVRAY

Dr. C.-K. Shene

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Michigan Technological University

© 1997 C.-K. Shene

You are visitor since July 1, 1998.
Last update: September 10, 2002.

Select the topics you wish to review:

Fundamentals
Local Availability
Camera
Simple Shapes
Geometric Transformations
Using Colors
The Color of a Shape
Surface Finish   (Updated)
Background
Light Source
Example 1
Exercise 1
Modeling with CSG
Directives
Boolean Operations
Example 2
Exercise 2
Other Modeling Techniques
Triangles and Smooth Triangles
Clipping
Algebraic Surfaces

This only provides you with a very minimal introduction, which could be just enough for our course. You can get an online documentation from POVRAY's web site. Just follow Resource and then Online documentation.

Please send comments and suggestions to shene@mtu.edu