Well, now that the votes are in, and the judges are counting the
bribes^h^h^h^h^h^h votes, I'd just like to comment on some of the
entries.

Mine, of course, were great. :-)

They all looked good.  I suppose, the entrants, like me, didn't enter
the ones that didn't.  (I had a picture of some jellyfish, but just
couldn't get them to look right - a dozen or fifty more characters might
have done it.)

Of the other entries, I would say that ks8 - the line drawing of the
airplane, struck me as very unique.  I assume the author created a 3d
set of lines, and just presented 4 rotations of it.  The apparent
simplicity really impressed me. And knowing it was under 500 characters,
wow!

I thought the chocolate bar (cho) was the best looking representative of
a real object.  Is the POV symbol in the fonts shipped with it?  

fwk - the fireworks - looked better as a small picture - it didn't look
as real in the large version.

Most of the abstracts (cit, bs1, bs2, bs3, jn2 ks7, str) didn't do
anything for me.  But for some reason, the blue, blobby one (hf1)
fascinated me.  I'm looking forward to see how that one was generated.

jn1 - the scrub grass? was too dark.  But I am looking forward to seeing
how that was generated, too.  This is one of the best parts of the
contest - seeing parts of POV used that you hadn't understood (or known
about); the length of the code guarantees that it will be fairly clean -
there isn't a lot of room for additions that while they might make the
image better, make the code more difficult to understand.

My one complaint with the last contest (besides not winning :-) was the
expanded code that wasn't commented.  What's the point of putting in the
end of lines, if the code isn't any easier to understand?

Thanks Mr. Johnson for holding this.  Thanks everyone else for entering
(except those who beat me).  I thought all the pictures were good, and
when I picked my top 6 I had a lot of trouble doing it.

-- 
Tom A.
When scientist say they're making a "quantum leap" it 
means they are going out to catch some rays.  - Dr. Science
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