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
>>
>> 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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