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> I would suggest to make 1st, 2nd and 3rd awards automatic, based on a
> single note for each image/voter, and use a small jury (3 or 4 people) to 
> award the T-A-C mentions.

One possibility would be to get rid of Technical/Artistic/Conceptual 
mentions altogether but entitle the panel judges to award mentions on 
whatever criteria they want, like the "special mentions" in the Cannes Film 
Festival.
For instance one entrant in the POVCOMP was a little girl. It was difficult 
to rank her image with the rest but on the other hand her image had a real 
value (for instance it showed that POV-Ray and Moray could be used for 
educational purpose, even with young children). I also remember several IRTC 
entries created with self-made raytracers.
A "special mentions" system would allow the jury to reward images that would 
be significant in some way or another, in fact for any reason that could 
have a particular value beside the overall image quality.

Ideally, voters should be able to have their say here too but I'm not really 
sure of the correct method to do that. There could be some sort of 
"flagging" system associated with tags, for instance. Images that would be 
flagged by enough people for similar reasons could then receive special 
awards.

G.


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"Mike the Elder" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> In the case of the TC-RTC, a fairly private email address (the one which I 
> use
> for POV-Ray and other fairly serious graphics contacts... .i.e. not a 
> "throw
> away") turns up alongside my name.

     Was that the reason for pulling out? The above that you mention is 
designed *not* to happen, but if you say it has happened, then can you show 
me where or how? <email me if you want, you know my address>

>
> Although I try not to be the "paranoid sort" with regard to life in 
> general,
> I've seen SO MUCH pettiness, vindictiveness and all around nastiness on 
> the
> Internet, that I've (reluctantly) adopted the practice of going to 
> relative
> extremes when it comes to maintaining my privacy in public forums.

      You should ignore Flaming Forums(tm). I do. Seen it myself many many 
times, as much as anyone else here has too probably. Read them, yes, but 
just ignore them.

   Best regards Mike,

       Steve

>
> Best Regards,
> Mike C.
>
>
>

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Chris Cason wrote:
 > It would be neat if in the image submission process, the entrant
could (via
> some click-through legalese) agree that the competition admins may, at
> their discretion, choose to grant third-party requests for non-commercial
> use of their entry if reasonable attempts to contact them fail*. Or have it
> the other way around; make this a default condition of registration/entry
> and require them to opt out of it if they do not wish to do so.

I have to agree with Gilles, it's too vague just like that. While a lot
of us POV-Ray users seem happy to share macros, textures, and final
pictures, I've gotten the impression from some other graphics forums
that the sentiment doesn't carry over to the larger commercial software.
Having the default be to allow third-party use might scare off some
users who do graphics for their professional work as well, since there
is then the large company's question of whether they can use that work
or not if they hire that person.*

Having the licenses be optional would be nice. Offers the best of both
worlds. So would allowing a link to the creator's home page where they
might provide more information about licensing the picture. But that
opens up the possibility of having those pages turned to spam at a later
date.

*It's not a good question from the corporations, but look at the FUD
about the GPL and CC licenses that keeps getting printed. It won't scare
off anyone who knows better, but it may scare off the people who don't
want to read all of the licenses.

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Chris Cason wrote:
> David Buck wrote:
>> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> It would probably be a wise move in any event.  If you were to win and 
>> the IRTC admins decide to send out prizes (T-shirts, mugs, posters, etc) 
>> they'd need to know where to send them to.
> 
> Of course we could always ask at the time. Honestly, provision of an
> address is not deterrent for someone who wants to cheat since they'd just
> make one up. However, that said, I think a contact address should be
> provided, but for a different reason.
> 
> Do you know how *frustrating* it is to have someone contact you to ask
> permission to use an IRTC image for a good cause, and to have to refuse
> because you can't contact the author?
> 
> I do [:-(

Has no one else moved in the last 10 years? I've lived in at least three
different places, and trying to use any but the current address would
probably result in "return to sender". While it's a nice idea, other
then prizes, what does it actually solve?

> I'd also suggest that if entrants have a 'private' email address that they
> don't give out to the public but don't mind giving to the admins, that they
> do so as well, via the registration system. One that they are less likely
> to change, for example.
> 

This sounds like a good idea. However, again, 10 years ago I had an
email address that was 'private' and only given out to a few people. The
company that offered it went under about 8 years ago, and that address
is gone. The domain still exists, but I have no idea who is on the
receiving end of any email sent there and trusting that unknown person
with the authorization to release an image to a company is slightly
scary to me.

Public key signatures could prevent that, but that's another layer of
information to 'require' just to keep you from having to say 'No' to
someone who wants the image.

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Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at vtSPAM.edu"> wrote:

> Has no one else moved in the last 10 years? I've lived in at least three
> different places, and trying to use any but the current address would
> probably result in "return to sender". While it's a nice idea, other
> then prizes, what does it actually solve?


addresses in six different countries. The only stability has been keeping the
same mobile phone number and email address for the last eight years. Hence the

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>       - A voter must rank all images (except their own)
>    - Every voter must provide a comment on each image they vote on

What happens if a large number of images are submitted, say 100, 200, 500 
etc?  How many people will be prepared to spend the time to sit down and 
look, vote and comment on that many images?

On a related note, it should be as easy and fast as possible to vote on 
images using the web.  eg You choose what resolution pictures you want to 
see, then each image is shown to you in turn with boxes at the bottom to 
select your score and enter your comments.  And it should be possible to 
come back later and continue voting before finally clicking the "submit my 
votes" button.

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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike the Elder <nomail@nomail> writes:

Mike> In the case of the TC-RTC, a fairly private email address (the one which
Mike> I use for POV-Ray and other fairly serious graphics
Mike> contacts... .i.e. not a "throw away") turns up alongside my name.

Clearly any data gathering needs to distinguish the private address
from the public address (perhaps even "none").

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"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:47d84f25@news.povray.org...
>
> "Mike the Elder" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
> news:web.47d8368e5c79dc2573e406e60@news.povray.org...
>
>> In the case of the TC-RTC, a fairly private email address (the one which 
>> I use
>> for POV-Ray and other fairly serious graphics contacts... .i.e. not a 
>> "throw
>> away") turns up alongside my name.
>
>     Was that the reason for pulling out? The above that you mention is 
> designed *not* to happen, but if you say it has happened, then can you 
> show me where or how? <email me if you want, you know my address>

     Ok, I've spotted enough today to see what you mean (even though I 
couldn't find _any_ reference to yourself anywhere - maybe my search terms 
weren't good enough). But, I don't find this as a serious issue because at 
the end of the day, why would you use a private email address to register 
for a 3D rendering competition? Forgive me for my ignorance, but isn't the 
Big G just one Helluva Big web crawler? Sure, if you publish something, then 
yes, it's going to be on Google somewhere.

   However, what I will do, is delete the email field in the fields below an 
entrants' main image, but imo, this is a shame because a valid email 
address, (private or 'throw away' but valid) is historically used so that 
other members/people* can contact them personally if they so want to discuss 
possible solutions to problems within the image**. I'm also a member of the 
Crysis(tm) (EA/Crytek game) forums, and there, you get the choice to show 
your email or not, so I'll get this instigated if possible.

   * Those people possibly being high-end commercial users who know a thing 
or two about rendering a good image.

   ** Is this still a valid option? Would people still do this today (email 
someone) out-of-the-blue to offer help, or would a forum within the website 
be of more help? If so, then there's no need to show an email address 
anywhere unless you request it. Thoughts?

    Anyway, this is o-t here, so if that last question can get answered with 
some help/opinions, this will be the last time I post here in this thread.

       Steve


>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Mike C.
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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"Randal L. Schwartz" <mer### [at] stonehengecom> wrote in message 
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>>>>>> "Mike" == Mike the Elder <nomail@nomail> writes:
>
> Mike> In the case of the TC-RTC, a fairly private email address (the one 
> which
> Mike> I use for POV-Ray and other fairly serious graphics
> Mike> contacts... .i.e. not a "throw away") turns up alongside my name.
>
> Clearly any data gathering needs to distinguish the private address
> from the public address (perhaps even "none").

   Cool. Kind of like I've just mentioned above in reply to MikeC. And, I 
didn't read your above answer before I posted that.   :)

       ~Steve~




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Mike the Elder wrote:
> In the case of the TC-RTC, a fairly private email address (the one which I use
> for POV-Ray and other fairly serious graphics contacts... .i.e. not a "throw
> away") turns up alongside my name.

Well, whatever you put in the submission form ends up on the website - the
IRTC never promised that any information in the submission template would
be redacted. The submission forms were always provided along with the entry
(this goes back to the first days of the IRTC in the 1990's). So I don't
think anyone should be surprised at that. I realise it's not desirable but
it's a historical fact.

-- Chris

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