gds2pov is a program to take a integrated circuit gds2 layout file and output a POV-Ray scene description file of the gds2 data. This allows the creation of attractive 3D pictures of a layout.
POV-Ray is a completely free, cross platform ray tracer. It can be obtained from http://www.povray.org/
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Enable snapd
Snap can be installed from the command line. Open the Konsole terminal and enter the following:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Install gds2pov
To install gds2pov, simply use the following command: