Paul Bourke wrote:
> Time to blow the dust from those old pixels and wake up some of those
> idle electrons....the next POVRay competition is now open, see
>    http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/povss/
> 
> Thanks to all the suggestions since the last fractal contest. Over all
> there were about 10 distinct ideas for new competitions. In choosing a
> new theme I rated the choices on a new "principles" (no particular order)
> 1. Maximise the appeal to as wide as possible group within the POVRay community.
> 2. Maximise the appeal of the results to the wider non-POVRay audience.
> 3. Maximise the opportunity to show off POVRay and raytracing in general. 
> 4. Avoid options that would significantly disadvantage anyone without
>    a high end computer.
> 5. Avoid choices that, for various reasons, would be hard to manage as a 
>    competition.
> Last but not least, I need to have some personal interest/motivation. :-)
> 
> My preferred options for future competitions boiled down to the following
> 1. Limited geometry, eg: use no more than 10 primitives from sphere, box, ....
> 2. Scene based on a single versatile primitive.
> 3. Render showing of optics.....details to be decided.
> 
> So, I've chosen (2) this time around because it interests me and the
> supershape is somewhat topical with Genicap offering plugs for Illustrator
>    http://www.genicap.com/tech_super.html
> (2d only) and further tools in the pipeline for 3D packages.
>    http://www.genicap.com/gallery/3d_illustration.html
> 
> Happy rendering.

which povray version are we using please ?

param.inc don't seem to exist on my box, povray-3.5c, debian/libranet 
somewhere near unstable

stephen

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