Rune wrote:

> Samuel Benge wrote:
> 
>>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.
>>
> 
> I think it violates both the spirit and the letters of the rules. In the
> image submitted, which is a direct result of a POV-Ray render, the only
> thing that is raytraced is a plane. That the plane has an image_map (or
> similar) and that this image_map happens to be created using POV-Ray also is
> irrelevant, since the image in the image_map is not the image that is
> submitted.
> 
> I think rule f is referring exactly to filters such as your 'luminous bloom'
> filter.


I'm convinced. No big loss, though, since the filter seems to mess some 
scenes up....

 
 
>>Wouldn't my filter show off POV's abilities in yet another useful way,
>>making it nearly 'on par' with the expensive rendering packages?
>>
> 
> I guess that using POV-Ray as a 2d image manipulative tool is not what the
> competition is about, and to make that clear, they prohibited it completely.
> 
> Rune


That won't keep me from using it as such outside the competition :)

-Sam