Txemi Jendrix wrote:

> 
> So what is the result?.
> That the Internet Raytracing Competition is
> becoming only the Internet Raytracing, a place
> where you can show your images; you don't need
> to care about the results 'cos they mean nothing.
> If that's the case, I prefer p.b.i.
> 

I think the contest definitely offers the opportunity to become 
intellectually involved with a topic and enjoy a shared experience with 
others that entered the same round. And if the effort to respond to the 
topic isn't sincere, then the experience is diminished. So you are 
right, the contest must be credible to work.  But the application of 
numbers to aesthetic and intellectual experience can be deceptive 
because they suggest more accuracy than may actually have meaning. 
Usually the artist's intellectual involvement with the topic is 
recognized and rewarded but not always.  The tool of assigning scores 
and averaging them all is a common sense way to do it but is capable of 
only so much discrimination.  This is one reason that I have tried to 
give some attention in these newsgroups to the content side of the works 
being produced, but I can only even attempt it because of the presence 
of a topic and the assumption of people's sincere involvement.  So I 
think that when you enter the contest you do take some risk.  You are 
hoping to have your idea rewarded in the ranking and it may not be.
The results don't mean nothing, but they are not the only judgement on 
your work either. It's tough.  Unless you make yourself vulnerable there 
can be no reward. But at the same time you are responsible for your own 
feelings.

-Jim

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