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  Re: Tom Dahl question  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 17 Jan 2001 19:34:33
Message: <3A66398B.175A0CEE@videotron.ca>
Tom Melly wrote:
> 
> "J Charter" <jrc### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
> news:3A65C43A.7933F141@aol.com...
> >
> > Can you elaborate?
> 
> Tom Dahl wrote his own raytracer - therefore rightly scored very high in the
> Oceans round  for his entry.
> 
> However, to keep on giving him v. high technical scores seems to me
> counter-intuitive.

I did what was mentioned here before, if you don't know the program
used, you can't very well judge the difficulty of achieving good
results.  I know POV, a little bit of Blender and even less 3DS,
therefore gave 10's to everyone who used something other than what I
knew, unless it was blatantly easy or unseemingly complex.

While this method might show my bias towards POV, I think it's better
this way than giving high (or low) technical marks to a picture based on
the complexity of achieving the same results with POV.   For example,
reflections are child's play in POV, whereas - from what I understand -
are nightmarishly complicated with scanline renderers.


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