Makes this friendly little "competition" sound like some sort of intense 
Olympic Games gymnastics career. Maybe the entrants can refrain from getting 
hurt at the IRTC. Frazzled nerves don't count though.
I know about those lathes, they are so prone to error. Surface of revolutions 
too, spline trouble. Wonder what exactly is going wrong in them? Doubling over 
(getting kinks) is what I always think is happening. Maybe just an out of 
range bending? If there were a debugging of the equation along the spline it 
would be interesting to see what the faults are.

Message <363C3516.1179F1F9@aol.com>, Mike  typed...
>
>That's too bad Bob, I was looking forward to seeing you finally enter
>something in the IRTC.  You'll have to get an early start this round.
>
>I didn't get my own out until 11:59 PDT!  I actually started the final render
>about 2 days ago, but I built the whole scene around the Superpatch, and
>somehow I came up with something that causes a page fault on 5 out of 600
>lines.  I spent all day today doing partial renders to narrow things down to
>those 5 lines, then rendered column-by-column to narrow it down to about 500
>pixels.
>
>I finally started commenting things out of the scene and rendering that small
>space until it would work.  I got all the pixels to render with an hour to 
go,
>then I went about putting the source and text file together.  I was staring 
at
>the clock, pulling out hair as I uploaded the text file and the jpeg with 5
>minutes to go!
>
>I narrowed things down enough that I think the problem is with a lathe in the
>scene.  I'm going to do some tests to see if I can get things down to one
>object causing the problem, test it in the official version, and post 
whatever
>I come up with to either bug reports or povray.programming, depending on
>whether or not it happens in both programs.
>
>I sent the zipfile out after the deadline, so I don't know if that's going to
>make it.  I had it bounce back at me the first time with a message that it 
was
>over the 3.5 meg limit, which is was, I just didn't know there was a size
>limit.  I reduced the size of the image_maps and got it down to 450kb and it
>went through.
>
>Sorry for the blab-fest, I still have no acceptence letter, so I'm still a
>little nervous.
>
>-Mike
>
>=Bob wrote:
>
>> I just went to get my entry uploaded and glanced at the clock first.
>> 2:06am (12:06am PDT), six minutes past the deadline.
>> No use, I have it set to Boulder Colorado's atomic clock.
>>
>
>
>

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=Bob

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