In article <414e0d65@news.povray.org> , "Jim Holsenback" 
<jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>> "No post processing of any kind is permitted."
>
> this is why I used the +FN command line switch .... so that povray could
> produce a file that would require no post processing whatsoever. I was
> previously converting bmp file to jpg. Hmmm .... how can ya follow the rules
> when it appears that the rules are a moving target. No doubt I'll get flamed
> for this and tomorrow I'll regret doing it but .... hey is this anyway to
> run a contest???? Considering dropping out ..... sheesh

We are just making them more precise. The previous change was to make the
detail image requirements less demanding.  And with this change, well, there
is practically no work involved for you.  Just open your favorite image
editor and create a JPEG file.  A dozen mouseclicks at most, that is all.

FYI, you could not have submitted the partial PNG output of POV-Ray
generated for the detail images anyway.  So for the detail images you would
always have needed an image editor.  Not to mention that PNG images POV-Ray
generates are far from well compressed because the are compressed line by
line to allow the continue trace feature to work.  As such, submitting a PNG
image directly output by POV-Ray was a particular bad idea to start with.

    Thorsten