I'll repeat my comment.

If you used a raytracer to display oil paintings, yes I could imagine how you'd
offend some people in a raytracting contest. Yes, it would be a loophole if that
guy disqualified for a photograph had instead ray-traced his photo as a single
image map on a cube.

If  however you had somehow tweaked the textures in povray to make exactly the
same thing, then you would have made a masterpiece --and-- provided worthy
offense to the "oh my it must look like a photo of a sunset or building"
bigots.  You will notice that an entry much like yours placed very highly.   Is
there a difference in how your two entries were put together?

I had considered entering an animation made with Bryce-created characters that
looked like cartoon or paper cutouts, and making them move in a really cool way,
like some of those 1980's MTV station id cartoons.



Ian Witham wrote:

> My first IRTC entry and I came 55 out of 142-- not bad really, I can live
> with that. But the comments I received range from very nice to fairly rude--
> Some of you may remember the painted ship on a painted ocean.. well a few
> people thought that it wasn't "really" raytracing, and one person has
> accused me of using a "rules loophole" which I hardly think is fair. also
> some seem to feel that this sort of experimentation isn't in the "spirit" of
> the competition.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I'm more than happy with my placing and just as many
> people seemed to like my idea.... but what do you think of iwdad.jpg?-- Is
> this sort of thing cheating?
>
> Ian
>
> Inkwell: Ian's Homepage
> http://www.topcities.com/cartoon/inkwell/index.htm

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