"Florian Brucker" <tor### [at] torfboldcom> wrote in message
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>
> > Fast render
> > Concern: Getting the vote formula "just right".
> True. Perhaps running a dummy contest first and try different formulas
> on the result and vote on which formula should be used.
>
>
> > Short time
> > Concern: Choosing a topic that minimises the chance of someone
> > having a scene already on hand.
> Additionally to a preclaimer like the IRTC one (image must be created
> for the contest), limiting the size of the file should be a good tool to
> keep the usage of already finished objects low.
> > Concern: Dealing with time zones.
> Don't think so. Either let the contest start two hours later each time
> (if it'll run several times) or choose a zone which covers most povers
> in a reasonable way (i.e. the competition falls for example somewhere
> from saturday morning 6am to saturday evening 12pm, which would cover
> already 18 hours).
>
>
> > Limited geometry
> > we assign a rating to each
> > primitive and the scene has to be built where the sum of the ratings
> > don't exceed some value.
> Or an approach like the one with the inverse time: You may use as many
> objects as you like but you're points will be divided by the amount of
> objects (may be interesting to also count for example macros, textures,
> etc.).
>
> > 3D fractals
> > Concern: These often require many primitives and therefore lots of
> > memory.
> Limit the memory: "Your scene is not allowed to use more than XX MB of
> memory. The value will be taken from the "peak memory" field of the
> render stats".
> > Concern: There may be some debate on whether some forms are fractal or
> > not.
> I would go for the fun and easy way here: It should look like a fractal.
> Letting only images of real fractals take part in the contest will IMHO
>
> IMHO combining some of these would be cool:
>
> "create an image which consists of a maximum of 10 spheres and 100 boxes
> which will render on <insert your machine here> in less than 1 hour. The
> scene may not contain more than 500 bytes and may not use any additional
> files. You got exactly 2 hours from 12:00 1st of April GMT."
>
>


Any time based contest limits people with older hardware. Sure, you can
preview things with low quality, no textures, etc. But someone with the
latest greatest 3GHz machine will have a testing turnaround time advantage
over me with my puny 3 year old mobile duron space heater.


ross.

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