On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:55:40 -0500, "Greg M. Johnson" <gregj:-)565### [at] aolcom>
wrote:
> > >    b) Make it compatible with povray 3.5.
> >
> > with specification or reality ?
>
> Comments anyone?

Some examples:
- camera behaviour was changed but documentation not updated yet.
- something with isosurfaces'll change afaik
  (I don't know how changes influence appearance).
- sphere sweeps differ from behaviour described in documentation.
- radiosity has bugs
- splines has bugs
- there are a few of blob bugs
- and many others from Known Bugs lists

There is a chance someone can discover nice 500 bytes long scene unfortunatelly
based on bug (without his knowledge), send it , and next beta can destroy his
effort.

ABX

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On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:44:34 -0500, Greg M. Johnson wrote:
>     d) MAX size: 500 bytes (arbitrarily chosen as twice the size of one very
> competent sig file posted to p.g.)

sig files already have a max size: 320 bytes.  Any longer and they're not
sig files.  So if you limited participants to, say, 300 bytes (to make up for
word wrap issues) then they'd be making sig files.

Wow!  500 bytes.  Whatever will I do with all that space?

Seriously, though, no theme or anything?  It's easy to come up with an 
attractive-looking pseudo-abstract image in a small number of bytes.  An
image that actually has a point - like "neon" or "uses bicubic patches to
draw letters" or the below-included "spectrum" - is a lot more difficult. 

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R(_-z*3_+z)torus{1__ clipped_by{plane{_ 0}}}translate z+_1}#end#macro S(_)9-(_1-
_)*(_1-_)#end#macro Z(_1 _ __)union{P(_)P(-_)R(y-z-1_)translate.1*_1-y*8pigment{
rgb<S(7)S(5)S(3)>}}#if(_1)Z(_1-__,_,__)#end#end Z(10x*-2,.2)camera{rotate x*90}

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I think the sourcecodes should also be shown to the pics, to enable the
voters
to judge by "quality" ...


BTW: How 'bout Mutiple Entries per person?


--
[Talking about cardriving]
"People are opstacles?
Oh...I always treat them as bonus points..." [Ian Burgmyer in p.o-t]
// Jan Walzer <jan### [at] lzernet>

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"Jan Walzer" <jan### [at] lzernet> wrote in message
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> I think the sourcecodes should also be shown to the pics, to enable the
> voters to judge by "quality" ...

Well, that's what makes it all the more interesting.  It's a raw judge of
"quality" without knowing how small.  If some bloke decides to do a fractal,
well maybe that's cool to some, and crap to others.


> BTW: How 'bout Mutiple Entries per person?

2 raised to the power of a relatively small integer.

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news:b3eg4u0dkeatvgk5p28e8qquf4rfim241m@4ax.com...
> There is a chance someone can discover nice 500 bytes long scene
unfortunatelly
> based on bug (without his knowledge), send it , and next beta can destroy
his
> effort.

Fair enough.  COmments?
Should some just have to face the consequences if they take this risk?

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On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:44:34 -0500, Greg M. Johnson wrote:
>     b) Make it compatible with povray 3.5.

rons_really_cool_signature_file //RLP

Works with the next beta of version 3.5.  Outputs the Mona Lisa.  What do I
win? :)

-- 
#macro R(L P)sphere{L F}cylinder{L P F}#end#macro P(V)merge{R(z+a z)R(-z a-z)R(a
-z-z-z a+z)torus{1F clipped_by{plane{a 0}}}translate V}#end#macro Z(a F T)merge{
P(z+a)P(z-a)R(-z-z-x a)pigment{rgbt 1}hollow interior{media{emission T}}finish{
reflection.1}}#end Z(-x-x.2y)Z(-x-x.4x)camera{location z*-10rotate x*90}

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"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
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> rons_really_cool_signature_file //RLP
>

Judges reserve right to reject entries using features never mentioned in the
docs.

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> sig files already have a max size: 320 bytes.  Any longer and they're not
> sig files.

According to who? Mine is just over 400 bytes.

Anders

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D);E=(E-C)/D;C#end#while(E)#if(A(8)=7)#declare D=D+2.8;#else#if(C<3)
}cylinder{0(C=<1 2>).2translate<D+C*A(2)A(4)#else}intersection{torus
{1 .2}box{-2y}rotate<1 0C>*90translate<D+1A(2)*2+1#end-2 13>pigment{
rgb x}finish{specular 1}#end#end#end=-8;1B(445000298)B(519053970)B(
483402386)B(1445571258)B(77778740)B(541684549)B(42677491)B(70)}

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"Anders K." <and### [at] prostard2gcom> wrote in message
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> > sig files already have a max size: 320 bytes.  Any longer and they're
not
> > sig files.
>
> According to who?

    According to the convention of four lines of eighty characters.

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Bill DeWitt <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote:
:     According to the convention of four lines of eighty characters.

  In fact, it's better to use well less than 80 characters in order to avoid
line wrapping in quotes (I think that the recommendation is something like
72 characters in a line).

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -

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