DKBTrace
Encyclopedia
DKBTrace was a graphical ray tracing program which was the forerunner of POV-Ray
. It had no GUI
and ran via the command line. It featured quadric
shapes (spheres, ellipsoids, planes, etc), constructive solid geometry (intersection, difference, union), and procedural textures like wood and marble.
It was originally written for the Amiga
by David Kirk Buck (1986). Aaron A. Collins ported it to the PC and worked with David to produce subsequent versions. The last version (DKBTrace 2.12) was built in 1991 and ran on Unix systems, PCs and Amigas. Version 2.12 was released to the POV-Ray
team to use as the basis of POV-Ray
.
Some early POV-Ray history written by David K. Buck is available at the POV-Ray
site:
Some of the old versions of DKBTrace are still available on the Aminet
site. They were also released on disks 397, 513, and 514 of the famous Fish disks distributed by Fred Fish
.
POV-Ray
The Persistence of Vision Raytracer, or POV-Ray, is a ray tracing program available for a variety of computer platforms. It was originally based on DKBTrace, written by David Kirk Buck and Aaron A. Collins. There are also influences from the earlier Polyray raytracer contributed by its author...
. It had no GUI
Graphical user interface
In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and...
and ran via the command line. It featured quadric
Quadric
In mathematics, a quadric, or quadric surface, is any D-dimensional hypersurface in -dimensional space defined as the locus of zeros of a quadratic polynomial...
shapes (spheres, ellipsoids, planes, etc), constructive solid geometry (intersection, difference, union), and procedural textures like wood and marble.
It was originally written for the Amiga
Amiga
The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities...
by David Kirk Buck (1986). Aaron A. Collins ported it to the PC and worked with David to produce subsequent versions. The last version (DKBTrace 2.12) was built in 1991 and ran on Unix systems, PCs and Amigas. Version 2.12 was released to the POV-Ray
POV-Ray
The Persistence of Vision Raytracer, or POV-Ray, is a ray tracing program available for a variety of computer platforms. It was originally based on DKBTrace, written by David Kirk Buck and Aaron A. Collins. There are also influences from the earlier Polyray raytracer contributed by its author...
team to use as the basis of POV-Ray
POV-Ray
The Persistence of Vision Raytracer, or POV-Ray, is a ray tracing program available for a variety of computer platforms. It was originally based on DKBTrace, written by David Kirk Buck and Aaron A. Collins. There are also influences from the earlier Polyray raytracer contributed by its author...
.
Some early POV-Ray history written by David K. Buck is available at the POV-Ray
POV-Ray
The Persistence of Vision Raytracer, or POV-Ray, is a ray tracing program available for a variety of computer platforms. It was originally based on DKBTrace, written by David Kirk Buck and Aaron A. Collins. There are also influences from the earlier Polyray raytracer contributed by its author...
site:
Some of the old versions of DKBTrace are still available on the Aminet
Aminet
Aminet is the world's largest archive of Amiga-related software and files. Aminet was originally hosted by several universities' FTP sites, and is now available on CD-ROM and on the web.-History:...
site. They were also released on disks 397, 513, and 514 of the famous Fish disks distributed by Fred Fish
Fred Fish
Fred Fish was a computer programmer notable for work on the GNU Debugger and his series of Fish disks of freeware for the Amiga. He was a pioneering spirit pervasive in the Amiga community...
.
External links
- [ftp://alfred.ccs.carleton.ca/pub/dkbtrace/dkb2.12/ DKBTrace 2.12]