Warp wrote:

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> "Paint programs may be used for the creation of image maps and the like,
> but may not be used to alter the rendered image."
> 
>   Your principle would mean that you can't use a painting program to
> make textures by hand.
>   What you are saying is that you must make the image completely
> algorithmically and that hand-drawing is not acceptable. This is
> not the IRTC. This is something different.

Right-on -- by it's very name it is a Ray-Tracing competition. For 
example, if a person can correct colors in Photoshop, it means that they 
are not competent enough to do it in the ray-tracer. If they have to 
rescale to get good anti-aliasing, it also means they don't know how to 
get good results from the ray-tracer. It isn't a Photoshop/GIMP/Whatever 
competition. Take it from a guy who /isn't/ competent enough to enter 
the IRTC yet, but wants to -- don't lower the bar on me! :-)

-- 
Respectfully,
Dan P
http://<broken link>

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