In article <pdb_NOSPAM-47C71A.14152402052004@news.povray.org>,
 Paul Bourke <pdb### [at] swineduau> wrote:

> The problem with these for competitions where the source is submitted
> is that render times can be scary. I have not insignificant cluster
> resources but even that is limited. Personally I like the idea of
> keeping these source based, it keep people honest and is a great
> learning resource for users. I've had lots of positive comments already
> from people looking at how things are done by experts in the fractal
> contest.

True...pretty much all my suggestions had potential to be very slow.
You could take rendered submissions along with the generating source 
code, and the voting/verification period could be extended if necessary.

Verification would focus more on those who seem likely to win, making it 
less likely for a cheater to win before being found out. Also, you 
needn't render the entire image to catch a cheat, you could just render 
a couple strips and compare with the submitted version. Community 
backlash against a found-out cheater would be severe, and I think that 
successfully fooling everyone and winning the contest would be very 
unlikely.

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