wow - i haven't heard of povray in a long time. i used to play with
povray in my desqview/x days.  iirc there was a list of modellers on
the povray.org site. 

blender is a nice 3d modelling packag that's available for the free
unices.  the site doesn't appear to be online right now ... a google
search for blender yields blender3d.com which seems to point to some
issues w/the availability of blender from a legal perspective.  i
would watch this, since if blender is ever released you would want to
get your hands on it.  it's a great modeller.

when last we saw our hero (Friday, Jun 21, 2002), 
 Bob Tanner was madly tapping out:
> Anyone into ray tracing?
> 
> What are the best tools for linux these days?
> 
> I'd like to use povray as the backend. I'm looking for a good
> modeller. Any recommendations?
> 
> 

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