POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : IRTC to be revived : Re: IRTC to be revived Server Time
2 Jul 2025 08:29:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: IRTC to be revived  
From: Chambers
Date: 10 Mar 2008 01:10:40
Message: <47d4d0e0@news.povray.org>
Chris Cason wrote:
> One thing we might want to consider is whether or not, this time around, we
> decide that IRTC stands for 'raytracing competition' or 'rendering
> competition'. Officially it's always stood for 'raytracing competition',
> even though the IRTC permitted scanline rendered images to be submitted.
> 
> My personal feeling is that I would like to see the IRTC be a raytracing
> competition. I'm sure there are other places that folks who use scanline
> renderers can compete; there are fewer opportunities for raytracer users
> to compete with others using only raytracing.

But then we get into questions about GI renderers that don't follow the 
traditional raytracing paradigm.

Personally, I've always thought of it as a POV-Ray competition anyway, 
even if it wasn't the official POV-Comp ;)

-- 
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com


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