To start off, I'd like to say this competition is very enticing! How 
nice it would be to win that computer..... having it would mean I would 
never go to sleep again!

At any rate, I have some concerns about the image submission rules. In 
section Four it is written:

d.
Each image submitted has to be the direct result of a POV-Ray render. No 
post processing of any kind is permitted. The image can be submitted in 
either PNG or JPG format.

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f.
You must not use any feature of POV-Ray (whether official or patched) to 
circumvent the intent of any of the other rules (especially the post 
processing rule and the requirement of the image to be rendered with 
POV-Ray).

I take this to mean I can't use my 'luminous bloom' filter, which is 
made with POV-Ray? The filter takes a rendered image, slaps it onto a 
plane and spreads out the highlights. It is all raytraced completely 
within POV.

Wouldn't my filter show off POV's abilities in yet another useful way, 
making it nearly 'on par' with the expensive rendering packages?

-Sam