Congratulations to all the winners - those images are AWESOME.

Jim

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Splendid images!
I'm a bit surprised mine is ranked so high but I won't complain :)
Cheers to all entrants

Marc

Chris Cason wrote:
> The primary results for POVCOMP 2004 are ready. 

   Thanks for all the effort, Chris and all the rest of the team, judges 
and sponsors.

   Now to figure some excuse to not go to work this morning, so I can 
enjoy viewing all those superb images, and then browsing the entire 
zazzle site... :)

--
Jaime

What a surprise ! I'm proud now.. ;-)
So many beautiful images. Thanks to all entrants, judges, organizers and
sponsors.
And Congrats to all the winners !

Rene
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I too am pleasantly surprised, and very honored, by my ranking. Very
inspiring images, all. Congratulations to all the winners, and to the POV
team. Thank you for making this competition, and even the images in the
competition, possible for us.

 - dan B hentschel

Chris Cason wrote:
> The primary results for POVCOMP 2004 are ready. 

> 
> We would like to thank our sponsors Appro (www.appro.com), AMD (www.amd.com),
> zazzle (www.zazzle.com), and Planet Mirror (www.planetmirror.com) for making
> this competition possible, plus our judges Dennis Miller, Evan Hallein, David
> Hook, Gilles Tran, Lance Birch, and Juha ('Warp') Nieminen for taking time
> out of their busy schedules over the past two weeks to rank the entries

Thankyou all for doing this, and congratulations on a remarkable 
outcome.  Povers, given the chance, (and with a little coaxing,) have 
done themselves proud! I sense that this is going to spur even more 
innovation with POV-Ray's capabilities.

Congratulations to Johnny.  His image really embodies the expressiveness 
of this new art form of raytracing, and much of the flavour and spirit 
that POV-Ray and the POV-Ray community brings to it.

Thanks everyone for some fantastic, original images. The variety
and creativity is wonderful.

I'm thoroughly enjoying reading all the Making of's, they really add
to my appreciation of these works.

>   equal 4th: "Victoria"s World" by Douglas Eichenberg

wow that's cool. mostly because one sketch i did (i only ever get as far as
sketching on paper most the time) was very similar, except not as lush, and
without the birds. Instead of a woman looking at another little planet, it
was a cartoony astronomer looking through a curvey telescope towards the
planet. but at the top of the telescope was an ant. so the astronomer
thought a giant ant was taking over the distant planet.

Anyway, Douglas, you're image rocks and is about a million times better than
anything I could have come up with. Simply beautiful. Top 2 in my list for
sure.

Ross wrote:
>>  equal 4th: "Victoria"s World" by Douglas Eichenberg
> 
> 
> wow that's cool. mostly because one sketch i did (i only ever get as far as
> sketching on paper most the time) was very similar, except not as lush, and
> without the birds. Instead of a woman looking at another little planet, it
> was a cartoony astronomer looking through a curvey telescope towards the
> planet. but at the top of the telescope was an ant. so the astronomer
> thought a giant ant was taking over the distant planet.
> 
> Anyway, Douglas, you're image rocks and is about a million times better than
> anything I could have come up with. Simply beautiful. Top 2 in my list for
> sure.
> 
> 

That is also one of my favorites. Surprising how similar it is with the 
3th place entry 'Dissolution'. Practically the same composition, both 
unrealistic worlds, both perfectly executed, only the first has a 
technical theme and the second a magical one.

If you put them side by side, I think, both images compliment each other 
in that respect, like the alter ego of each another.

Ross <rli### [at] everestkcnet> wrote:
> was a cartoony astronomer looking through a curvey telescope towards the
> planet. but at the top of the telescope was an ant. so the astronomer
> thought a giant ant was taking over the distant planet.

  It's impossible to focus a telescope to both the ant and the planet.

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