Tek wrote:
> I apologise for causing such controversy. I usually post my IRTC WIPs for 
> suggestions just to guage opinion on what people think of the work and I 
> have previously posted WIPs for earlier rounds of the SCC, it didn't occur 
> to me that this would be any different. I thought this was a perfect 
> opportunity to invite discussion of some syntactical trickery in POV, though 
> I grant you it does contravene the anonymity rule.

I think it will improve the overall quality of the competition, and is 
therefore a good thing. Not everyone likes to reveal their work so soon, 
and that's fine. Tek's post is probably of more help to people with less 
knowledge than Tek himself, since he is only gaining a few pointers 
whereas anyone who studies his code could glean all kinds of insights. 
Also I think having a few early tasters just builds the anticipation...

Pete

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Paul Bourke wrote:
> Round four of the POVRay short code contest

I can't seem to find any information about the first two rounds. I'd be 
quite interested to see what people came up with! Does anyone have a link?

Pete

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Pete Hurst <pet### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> For instance I've made two scenes which are both based on the same 
> (well, slightly modified) function. One uses it for a density map 
> whereas the other uses it for an isosurface ... however both are very 
> spherical shapes, but still look very different. I'm not sure whether I 
> even want to submit both, but for clarity would the rule be here?

  I think it's enough to have a heuristic there. Trying to define a
formally exact rule can be quite difficult.

  I would say that if you can ask a random person "do these two images
show the same scene?" and the person answers "no" then the images are
sufficiently distinct.
  (Of course using just the exact same scene but radically changing the
textures is a very borderline case. I would say it falls into the
non-distinct category. Just make the scenes different.)

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                                                          - Warp

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