Mischa wrote:
> Paul Bourke <pdb### [at] swineduau> wrote:
> 
>>1. Limited geometry. eg: Create a scene with no more than 10 objects from
>>   the following list: sphere, cylinder, cone, box.

All my shortest code contests were made that way - a forest made of 
three planes and a bunch of cylinders; a school of fish made with a 
lathe object and some disks, etc.

> But I like the idea with the tools, I've read here somewhere.

I've been working on a height field editor - would that count?

> ..) One (more or less simple) photo/image is given and each contestant tries
>    to reach the reference as close as possible only using PoV.
>    (The difficulty of this contest will strongly be influenced by the
> selected
>    picture of course.)

An architectural object of some sort would be neat (but may be very 
complex - like the U.S. capital building.)  But you'd want something 
like that which would allow POV to show it's stuff.

Another suggestion I liked was an animation contest.  You could limit it 
by size of POV source, or maybe limit what was being animated - the 
contest creator would create a basic scene - like a fountain, and the 
contestants would supply a macro that generates the water from the pipe 
and in the basin.

I missed the 3rd shortest code contest both because I wasn't online very 
much at the time, and thought it was limitted to 100 characters - I have 
enough trouble with 250!  Maybe next time....

Just had another thought - there was a coding contest I heard about once 
- the goal was to create a program the produced an animated fire. 
Perhaps something could be made from that.


Tom A.

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