I use quite a few renderers but still love POVray (first started using when I was about 15, I'm 30 now). It seems to be one of the nicest free ones I have seen to date. Just wondered how many people here are interested in raytracing and what you use. I am more concerned with free ones (although I have some fine proprietary ones).

Some home comp rendered stuff is almost indistinguishable from photos these days. What's your fav you have seen?

I like these, amazing how home comp with little power can produce such results
http://hof.povray.org/images/bigthumb/mouille.jpg
http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2006-10-31/nopaper.jpg
http://hof.povray.org/images/bigthumb/glasses.jpg

http://hof.povray.org/ and http://www.irtc.org/ have some great examples too

Wow, they're so photorealistic.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZE8Mx2Z-69M&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dvD-48Uc_9A&feature=related
I love those ones done in povray

and in blender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azuNHuj0cjo&feature=related

I use Adobe Toolkit, but we are moving to Deep Exploration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-OTqqjamk&NR=1

That looks real to me, blender is pretty good though as is yafray (however it's not up to vray/mental standard).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnzAN81B4O0&NR=1


That's phenomenal!