If I may add something...

> Enter so that you're part of the POV community.

While I agree with pretty much everything you said, there are people (like
me) who want to take part of the IRTC, but do not use POV. If I succeed on
submitting an entry to the current contest (and that, unfortunately, is a
big IF because of Real Life (TM) getting in the way), it will be probably be
rendered by Pixie or another free, open source Renderman compliant renderer,
because of the speed and flexibility that I can't find (yet) in POV.
However, I'd like to feel I'm part of the IRTC community, even if I'm not a
POV'er. Of course, the IRTC tends to be POV-centric, but all renderers are
allowed.

For the record, I've used POV for many years, since POV 2.2, I guess (I
can't remember the version, but one of the examples was a green glass ball
inside a framed box, with some odd reflection above... very cool picture...
around 1995, IIRC). But I can't afford the CPU time to use it right now, and
I'm really into Renderman (fiddling with shaders can be serious *fun*).
Also, I want to make a point on using only Free, open-source software, which
POV isn't (technically, because of the license).

On everything else, I couldn't agree more with you.

Best regards,

Roberto

P.S.: Also, looking back at this post, I think I might be an excellent LISP
programmer. I didn't notice before how I use so many parenthesis. :-)

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