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. A ray traced scene. ... The Utah teapot, rendered in POV-Ray. ... Gui is short for Guilherme or Guilhermo or an iteration of that, in English it translates to Will. ... A command line interface or CLI is a method of interacting with a computer by giving it lines of textual commands (that is, a sequence of characters) either from keyboard input or from a script. ... Ellipsoid Elliptic Paraboloid Hyperbolic Paraboloid Hyperboloid of One Sheet Hyperboloid of Two Sheets Cone Elliptic Cylinder Hyperbolic Cylinder Parabolic Cylinder In mathematics a quadric, or quadric surface, is any D-dimensional (hyper-)surface represented by a second-order equation in spatial variables (coordinates). ...

It was originally written for the Amiga by David Kirk Buck (1986). Aaron 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, PC's and Amiga's. Version 2.12 was released to the POV-Ray team to use as the basis of POV-Ray. The original Amiga (1985) The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced game console. ... The Utah teapot, rendered in POV-Ray. ... The Utah teapot, rendered in POV-Ray. ...

You can find some early history written by David K. Buck at the POV-Ray site: The Utah teapot, rendered in POV-Ray. ...

• The Early History of POV-Ray
• The Original Creation Message

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. Aminet is the worlds largest archive of Amiga related software and files. ... The Fred Fish Disks were distributed at computer stores and Commodore Amiga enthusiast clubs. ... Fred Fish is a computer programmer notable for work on the GNU Debugger, as well as his series of Fish disks of freeware for the Amiga. ...