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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Short code competition number 4
Date: 27 Sep 2006 12:44:04
Message: <451aaa53@news.povray.org>
Samuel Benge <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Probably a stupid question, but.... we can submit more than one entry, 
> right?

  I hope so.

  Participating with multiple entries is not so much like trying to win
by submitting lots of images, but more like showing people all the
different ideas you got while thinking about how to do spectacular
things with very short code. Some of the ideas might not have been
so good in the end, but I think it's still nice to show people what
you got.

  Besides, having lots of entries never hurts this kind of competition.
Nothing hurts it more than having just 5 entries.

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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Short code competition number 4
Date: 27 Sep 2006 19:16:30
Message: <451b064e@news.povray.org>
Perhaps it could be a good idea if the entry file could be submitted
as an attachment (or whatever it is called in webforms), like it is
possible in many webforms out there. This way we can be sure that you
are getting the file exactly as it was written and that nothing modifies
it along the way (by eg. adding a newline at the end of the file or
whatever).

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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Short code competition number 4
Date: 27 Sep 2006 19:24:24
Message: <451b0827@news.povray.org>
By the way, one thing which is unclear is whether the authors of the
entries will be visible during the voting period.

  They they will not be visible, then it may be a good idea to add
a rule that in the readable version and the comments the author should
not put his own name...

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From: Paul Bourke
Subject: Re: Short code competition number 4
Date: 28 Sep 2006 02:30:00
Message: <web.451b6ad7e7874c8e5a039020@news.povray.org>
> By the way, one thing which is unclear is whether the authors of the
> entries will be visible during the voting period.
>   They they will not be visible, then it may be a good idea to add
> a rule that in the readable version and the comments the author should
> not put his own name...

Good point, yes the intention is that entries will be anonymous until after
votong.


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From: Paul Bourke
Subject: Re: Short code competition number 4
Date: 28 Sep 2006 02:35:00
Message: <web.451b6beee7874c8e5a039020@news.povray.org>
> Perhaps it could be a good idea if the entry file could be submitted
> as an attachment (or whatever it is called in webforms), like it is
> possible in many webforms out there. This way we can be sure that you
> are getting the file exactly as it was written and that nothing modifies
> it along the way (by eg. adding a newline at the end of the file or
> whatever).

I'll ensure this doesn't happen.
I already (last time) replaced any combinations of CR lf with a single
space.
I will also check end of lines.


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From: Paul Bourke
Subject: Re: Short code competition number 4
Date: 28 Sep 2006 02:35:00
Message: <web.451b6cc0e7874c8e5a039020@news.povray.org>
> > Probably a stupid question, but.... we can submit more than one entry,  right?
>   I hope so.

I have no problem with multiple entries as long as they are each distinctly
different.
On the other hand lets not go crazy .... lets say a maximum of 4 per person?
Everyone happy with that?


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Short code competition number 4
Date: 28 Sep 2006 05:47:55
Message: <451b9a4b@news.povray.org>
Paul Bourke <pau### [at] uwaeduau> wrote:
> On the other hand lets not go crazy .... lets say a maximum of 4 per person?
> Everyone happy with that?

  I suppose that's ok.

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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Short code competition number 4
Date: 28 Sep 2006 05:50:13
Message: <451b9ad5@news.povray.org>
Paul Bourke <pau### [at] uwaeduau> wrote:
> Good point, yes the intention is that entries will be anonymous until after
> votong.

  Btw, the submission page seems to lack a field for personal info.
How will you know who submitted the entry?-)

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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Re: Short code competition number 4
Date: 28 Sep 2006 07:30:00
Message: <web.451bb128e7874c8731f01d10@news.povray.org>
I was quite amused by the 'between 16 and 256 bytes'. Does this mean that if
I create an 'artistic' scene comprising less than 16 bytes of SDL, it won't
be considered for entry, or is there some technical reason for the lower
limit? Sounds like a challenge to me! ;-)

On a side note, I'm thoroughly enjoying pruning code for my entries. I was
aware of the previous SCC, but I never tried it till now!

Bill


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From: Mike the Elder
Subject: Re: Short code competition number 4
Date: 28 Sep 2006 09:55:01
Message: <web.451bd30fe7874c82d8fb84f0@news.povray.org>
"Paul Bourke" <pau### [at] uwaeduau> wrote:
> Round four of the POVRay short code contest
>
Even for those of us who learned to program on the ancient Commodore PET (8k
RAM max) 256 bytes is a tad claustrophobic.  Sound like fun. Thanks.


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