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/usr/bin/povray

The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray)

From povray 3.7.0.10-r7 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running povray --help (exit 0) · terse output. permalink

povray: cannot open the system configuration file /etc/povray/3.7/povray.conf: No such file or directory
povray: cannot open the user configuration file /tmp/.povray/3.7/povray.conf: No such file or directory
povray: I/O restrictions are disabled
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.7.0.10.unofficial
 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ 16 @ x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
This is an unofficial version compiled by:
 Chainguard Team https://www.chainguard.dev/
 The POV-Ray Team is not responsible for supporting this version.

POV-Ray is based on DKBTrace 2.12 by David K. Buck & Aaron A. Collins
Copyright 1991-2013 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.

Primary POV-Ray 3.7 Architects/Developers: (Alphabetically)
  Chris Cason         Thorsten Froehlich  Christoph Lipka

With Assistance From: (Alphabetically)
  Ton van den Broek   Nicolas Calimet     Jerome Grimbert     James Holsenback
  Christoph Hormann   Nathan Kopp         Juha Nieminen

Past Contributors: (Alphabetically)
  Steve Anger         Eric Barish         Dieter Bayer        David K. Buck
  Nicolas Calimet     Chris Cason         Aaron A. Collins    Chris Dailey
  Steve Demlow        Andreas Dilger      Alexander Enzmann   Dan Farmer
  Thorsten Froehlich  Mark Gordon         James Holsenback    Christoph Hormann
  Mike Hough          Chris Huff          Kari Kivisalo       Nathan Kopp
  Lutz Kretzschmar    Christoph Lipka     Jochen Lippert      Pascal Massimino
  Jim McElhiney       Douglas Muir        Juha Nieminen       Ron Parker
  Bill Pulver         Eduard Schwan       Wlodzimierz Skiba   Robert Skinner
  Yvo Smellenbergh    Zsolt Szalavari     Scott Taylor        Massimo Valentini
  Timothy Wegner      Drew Wells          Chris Young

Other contributors are listed in the documentation.

Support libraries used by POV-Ray:
  ZLib 1.3.2.1, Copyright 1995-2012 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
  LibPNG 1.6.59, Copyright 1998-2012 Glenn Randers-Pehrson
  LibJPEG 80, Copyright 1991-2013 Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding
  LibTIFF 4.7.2, Copyright 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, 1991-1997 SGI
  Boost 1.92, http://www.boost.org/
  OpenEXR 3.5.2 and Imath 3.2.3, Copyright (c) Contributors to the OpenEXR
 Project.


Platform specific command line options:

  'general' options:

    --version|-version|--V          display program version
    --help|-help|-h|-?              display usage information
    --benchmark|-benchmark          run the standard POV-Ray benchmark
Options (5)
OptionDescriptionSource
-display display_nameDisplay preview on display_name rather than the default display.man
-helpDisplay the X Window System-specific options.man
-iconStart the preview window as an icon.man
-title window_titleOverride the default preview window title with window_title.man
-visual visual_typeUse the deepest visual of visual_type, if available, instead of the automatically selected visual.man

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.