In article <36a21507.0@news.povray.org>, Nieminen Mika <war### [at] cctutfi> wrote:
>  This is exactly what I have been whining about several times here. As
>Dan excellently said it, cross-contamination of voting categories.
>  A stunning looking image -> High score on each category.
>  An ugly image -> low score on each category.
>
>  The question is: Can we do anything about this?

Probably not. Remember that the artistic and interpretation are going to
depend heavily on the technical merit of the piece simply for natural
reasons; and the interpretation score will depend heavily on the artistic
merit of the piece.

An artist might have a brilliant artistic concept that falls perfectly
within the topic, but unless they have the technical skill to show that
concept to the voters, they're going to get lower artistic and topic
scores. The better they are technically, the better they'll be able to
show us their concept. This means that, given a number of images of
equally good artistic and interpretive merit in the artist's concept,
those whose artists have better technical skills will tend to higher
scores in those categories.

Similarly (but to a lesser extent, I think), an artist who is better at
expressing an artistic concept will also end up being better at fitting
their concepts to a theme. So that there will also be cross-contamination
from the "artistic" score to the "concept" score.

I suppose you could "do something about this" by basing your artistic and
concept scores on the text description, but then you'd be giving higher
scores for the skill of writing :*)

Jerry

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