I'd definetely be interested, but for the competition to be really worth
the amount of work some people would have to put into it, there
should be a better feedback. I don't mean viewers to entrants,
but entrants to interested. I find many POV-entries lack a good
description of what's done, and how its done. Best example is
John VanSickle's Rusty. You always get the same text:
Slapped some code together, like I always do.
I mean, who can learn from that? I do think he does a great job, and
I do know that when submitting something to the IRTC, you've mostly
got not enough time left to actually write everything you did.

That's why I'd say that winners would have to write something
like a "making-of". Its the only way one can learn from others,
especially ones that have done better in the competition.

And then I'd say there had to be a "special issues" selection, where
the competition gathers, from winners images, how clouds are done
fast and good-looking, how the lighting is made to look near-realistic
and stuff like that. Just using the competition as a database, you know?

And perhaps a little more "linkability". Like, when you look at the
images of the winners, you have a link to their homepage to click on,
so that you don't have to download the scene-description and look,
if he has one at all.

Just some thoughts, there's a lot more I could think about, but I think
you're getting the idea of what I'm after.

Dave Brickell wrote:

> The spread of people using POV is something that did not cross my mind when
> I first thought up the idea. And imigration was something else I never even
> considered. It is amazing how a news group can make you feel all so close
> when in reality people are spread far and wide.
>
> What Apache earlier on in this thread may be worth considering though, have
> a version of the IRTC for POV-Ray users only. I know the the majority of
> users that enter the IRTC do use POV-Ray but it is also open to other
> renderers such as 3DS Max. I dont know how much interest there would be in
> something like this, or whether we could make it different enough from the
> IRTC to gain some interest.
>
> I have some web design experience and could possibly get some nice web space
> for such a project. It all depends on the demand for such a thing.
>
> Thoughts and comments please.
>
> Dave.

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