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clipka wrote:
> Kevin Wampler schrieb:
>
>> #2 - Nathan G B O'Brien - Arch
>> http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/old-competition/competition-Oct-95/arch.jpg
>>
>> Entrant in the October 1995 IRTC (theme: architecture) and an old
>> favorite of mine from back in the day. This is clearly one of the
>> tricky ones, probably too tricky in retrospect.
>
> Duh - I've never even /seen/ this one before... and the IRTC archive (as
> available through the current web page) only goes back to 1996 :-(
I thought I'd mix it up a bit and throw in a few from the old IRTC page:
http://www.povray.org/competition/ . I figured this might be a nice bit
of nostalgia for some of the old time users.
>> #10 - Nicholas DePetrillo (self attributed) - AWSOME ROLEX WATCH!
>>
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/attachment/%3C371e9151.0@news.povray.org%3E/rolexfr.jpg
>>
>> Backstory: Ok, I lied a bit, only 19 of those images were made with
>> povray.
>
> Well, was it really ultimately /proven/ that he didn't do it with
> POV-Ray? :-P
I suppose he could have made in it POV then another website could have
stolen it from him shortly after he posted it :)
>
>> #12 - Gilles Tran - The Big Fight
>> http://www.oyonale.com/images/3D/joute_1993.jpg
>>
>> A very early Gilles Tran piece from 1993. He also did a remake of
>> this picture in 2001:
>>
>> http://www.oyonale.com/images/3D/joute_2001.jpg
>
> Not one of his best works. The remake is much better /technically/, but
> as for artistic and concept... Meh.
I sort of agree, but I included it because I thought it would be
interesting to have a very early work by Gilles Tran on there, and the
existence of a remake is what led me to this one.
>> #19 - Rob Strickland - Chain Reaction
>> http://oz.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1997-06-30/chainrea.jpg
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>> May-June 1997 IRTC winner (theme: Physics & Math)
>>
>> I believe he had to hack motion blur into Povray just for this image.
>
> Nice one! The idea dates back at least to 1986 though: After the
> Chernobyl disaster, the famous German children/science TV show "Sendung
> mit der Maus" ("The programme with the mouse") aired a full episode
> dedicated to nucelar power, with the mouse-trap-and-ping-pong-balls
> chain reaction demonstration being the highlight of the show.
I did not know that bit of history. That's rather interesting.
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