In article <406d8791@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

>   If they allow post-processing then it's not a rendering competition
> anymore. It's a computer graphics competition.

Depends on the type of post-processing. If it's done by hand, I'd 
disallow it. Otherwise, where do you draw the line? You can do 
rescaling, convolution filters, color adjustment, basically anything in 
POV-Ray, and some renderers have such features built in, which allows 
them to take advantage of data not available to external editors. It's 
an incredibly ugly hack, but it's possible, and no different from doing 
it in an external program.

So I'd say that this kind of full-image, non-interactive processing 
should be allowed, maybe with the requirement of the script or commands 
used to generate the final image. You can't really avoid it without 
carefully examining how the software generates each image, which may 
involve in-depth knowledge of how the software works internally. 
Interactive editing to remove rendering artifacts or add objects and 
details should not be allowed.

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