POV-Ray Examples
These examples were made with the ray-tracing software
POV-Ray. You may need to acquire
a Quicktime player
to view the movies.
- Sphere. A basic image.
- Example. Some basic techniques, including rotation and translation.
- "Holodeck". Some basic techniques, including intersection, union, and difference..
- Cube building. Uses translations.
- Mirrors. Illustrates POV-Ray's ability to calculate reflections.
- Transparent spheres. Illustrates POV-Ray's ability to calculate
refraction.
- More transparent spheres. Same as before, but illustrates how to
define one's own glass properties.
- Animation of transparent spheres. Uses translation.
- Pyramid constructed using its vertices and polygons.
- Pyramid constructed as an intersection of halfspaces.
- Still life with many shapes. Includes some trigonometry for
regular polygons.
- Cross-section of cube. Uses intersection with a plane.
- Conic section. Uses intersection with a plane.
- Animation of conic section.
- Union of two cylinders.
- Intersection of two cylinders.
- Cube with holes. Uses union and intersection.
- Application of Cavalieri's principle to hemisphere and
cylinder-minus-cone. Uses union, difference, and intersection.
- Animation of application of Cavalieri's principle to
hemisphere and cylinder-minus-cone.
- Twisted stack. Uses translations and rotations.
- Animation of exploding cube. Uses translations and rotations.
- Sierpinski fractal.
- Sierpinski fractal movie #1. Illustrates the construction.
- Sierpinski fractal movie #2. Illustrates the fractal nature.
- Sierpinski fractal. A little fancier!
- Snowflake fractal.
- Fractalsphere--Fractal made from sphere. Takes a long time to render.
- Icosahedron movie. Shows the method of construction of the
icosahedron framed by a cube, and three golden rectangles within the
icosahedron.
- Three-dimensional snowflake. This uses the analogous contruction
as the two-dimensional snowflake, starting with a tetrahedron.
Perhaps surprisingly, the object fills up a cube.
- Projections of a cube.
- Special Relativity
- Slicing a Torus
- Slicing a Torus - Animation
- Projection of a Hypercube
- Projection of a Hypercube
- Projection of a Hypercube--Edges Only
- Projection of a Hypercube - Animation Showing Sequence of Cubical Faces
- Projection of a Hypercube - Animation Showing a Rotation
- Projection of a Hypercube with Panels and Edges
- Perspective Projection of a Hypercube with Edges
- Perspective Projection of a 16-Cell with Edges
- Perspective Projection of a Hypercube - Animation Showing a Rotation
