Fabien Mosen wrote:

> Yes, it seems more and more people are just trying to push their
> annoying
> sci-fi images into the competition.  For about 100 images, only 10 of
> them
> really fits the topic, to me.  We already had that phenomena with
> "imaginary
> worlds".

	You know, I have no problem with a real SF image it is the
modern Sci-Fi that sucks. In the good old days the writers and
illustrators at least took a try at being good engineers. I would
love to see a well thought out space craft of any kind.
Unfortunately I have only seen a couple and not in the
competitions. 

	If someone wants to show me an alien, don't just make something
weird looking, think through the mechanics and the biology. (Like
the ILM folks did in the muscles for their Jurassic Park Dinos.) 

> And now, "landmarks" makes me fear a good dozen of damn pyramids !!!!
> (did someone ever seen an IRTC round without pyramids ? not me...)

	Yes, pyramids. I would like to see one that even evidences the
research to get the proportions correct. I did that for a pyramid
under construction for History. The real thing is certainly
beyond me and likely beyond POV due to scale and perspective
issues. I submitted it to make that point. But when I saw an
image of two impossibly steep pyramids with a river running
between them, I knew I was in POV-Land. 

	Putting together Landmarks and Sci-Fi, how many future landmarks
will we see? (Oddly the only thing the competition didn't suggest
as a possibility.) "This impossibly shaped thing became a
landmark in 2053 AD ... " 

	And I am working on a future landmark thing that I may or may
not submit (also a serious submission clearly on topic) but only
if it can pass muster with basic physics and sound engineering.
I've spent more time writing the tourist brochure (creation
guidelines) than on the POV code. 

	So much for griping. But playing with the gripes is fun, like
with my pyramids and my gripe about the unsubtle use of height
fields. 

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