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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: 4096 pixel challenge! [ANSWER KEY]
Date: 7 Oct 2009 14:21:01
Message: <4accdc0d@news.povray.org>
>>> #1 - Christoph Hormann - The Eye
>>> http://hof.povray.org/images/the_eye.jpg
> 
>> Never seen it.
> 
>   You have never browsed through the Hall of Fame?-o

Yep.

I distinctly recall there being a scene somewhat like this, but by the 
ocean. But I don't remember this one.

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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: 4096 pixel challenge! [image attached]
Date: 7 Oct 2009 14:22:36
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> In the USA, kids get lockers to store their books and such in between 
> classes. They locked with a Master lock.

Oh, right. I didn't know that. Suddenly several hundred movies scenes 
make significantly more sense...

>> course, today I understand that the sniffness of the rods causes them 
>> to resist being bend, which adds a 2nd-order dx/dt term to the 
>> transfer function of the system, which introduces dispersion, which 
>> changes the resonant frequencies of the system such that they are no 
>> longer harmonically related... but when I was 9, I just used to like 
>> twanging the spokes.
> 
> And what makes you think you're stupid again?

...I have a wet passenger seat?

It seems I fall into the same trap as DJ. Very good with abstract 
mathematics. Hopeless with The Real World. :-(

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From: Kevin Wampler
Subject: Re: 4096 pixel challenge! [image attached]
Date: 7 Oct 2009 14:40:17
Message: <4acce091$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Reminds me of "Eyeball Benders" from Games magazine.
> 
> http://home.comcast.net/~rawieland4/5MinuteBof/EyeballBenders/eyeballbender.html 
> 

Ohh yeah, I'd forgotten about those.  Man, I used to love the puzzles in 
games magazine (probably still would if I still read it).


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: 4096 pixel challenge! [ANSWER KEY]
Date: 7 Oct 2009 16:22:57
Message: <4accf8a0@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >>> #1 - Christoph Hormann - The Eye
> >>> http://hof.povray.org/images/the_eye.jpg
> > 
> >> Never seen it.
> > 
> >   You have never browsed through the Hall of Fame?-o

> Yep.

  Then what are you waiting for?

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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: 4096 pixel challenge! [ANSWER KEY]
Date: 7 Oct 2009 16:49:15
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>>>   You have never browsed through the Hall of Fame?-o
> 
>> Yep.
> 
>   Then what are you waiting for?

Ah, the wonderful ambiguities of the English language...

I actually meant "yes I have". ;-)

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From: Warp
Subject: Re: 4096 pixel challenge! [ANSWER KEY]
Date: 7 Oct 2009 16:52:06
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >>>   You have never browsed through the Hall of Fame?-o
> > 
> >> Yep.
> > 
> >   Then what are you waiting for?

> Ah, the wonderful ambiguities of the English language...

> I actually meant "yes I have". ;-)

  I suppose "never seen it" also means something else, then?

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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: 4096 pixel challenge! [ANSWER KEY]
Date: 7 Oct 2009 16:58:46
Message: <4acd0106$1@news.povray.org>
>>>>>   You have never browsed through the Hall of Fame?-o
>>>> Yep.
>>>   Then what are you waiting for?
> 
>> Ah, the wonderful ambiguities of the English language...
> 
>> I actually meant "yes I have". ;-)
> 
>   I suppose "never seen it" also means something else, then?

Like I say, I definitely recall seeing a similar landscape by the sea. I 
just don't remember this particular image. Maybe it's one I didn't click 
on to view full size. Maybe it was added after the last time I visited 
the HoF. Who knows...

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From: clipka
Subject: Re: 4096 pixel challenge! [ANSWER KEY]
Date: 8 Oct 2009 11:44:51
Message: <4ace08f3$1@news.povray.org>
Kevin Wampler schrieb:

> #2 - Nathan G B O'Brien - Arch
> http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/old-competition/competition-Oct-95/arch.jpg
> 
> Entrant in the October 1995 IRTC (theme: architecture) and an old 
> favorite of mine from back in the day.  This is clearly one of the 
> tricky ones, probably too tricky in retrospect.

Duh - I've never even /seen/ this one before... and the IRTC archive (as 
  available through the current web page) only goes back to 1996 :-(

> #8 - Gilles Tran - The Construction Workers
> http://www.oyonale.com/images/3D/creation.jpg

Hm... never seen this one either. Nice one.

> #9 - Douglas Eichenberg - Victoria's World
> http://hof.povray.org/images/victoria.jpg
> 
> Tied for 4th in POVCOMP 2004, one of my personal favorites.

Indeed, a very beautiful shot.

> #10 - Nicholas DePetrillo (self attributed) - AWSOME ROLEX WATCH!
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/attachment/%3C371e9151.0@news.povray.org%3E/rolexfr.jpg

> 
> Backstory:  Ok, I lied a bit, only 19 of those images were made with 
> povray. 

Well, was it really ultimately /proven/ that he didn't do it with 
POV-Ray? :-P


> #12 - Gilles Tran - The Big Fight
> http://www.oyonale.com/images/3D/joute_1993.jpg
> 
> A very early Gilles Tran piece from 1993.  He also did a remake of this 
> picture in 2001:
> 
> http://www.oyonale.com/images/3D/joute_2001.jpg

Not one of his best works. The remake is much better /technically/, but 
as for artistic and concept... Meh.


> #17 - Gilles Tran - The Cubicle Workers
> http://www.oyonale.com/images/3D/comptoir.jpg
> 
> One of my old favorite Gilles Tran pieces, from 1997.

Ah! Seen that one. Not so easy to identify though.


> #18 - Jamie McCarter - Night Club Gallimimus' Warming Up
> http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/old-competition/competition-Feb-95/jmwarmup.jpg
> 
> Winner of the February 1995 IRTC (theme: music)

Never seen it. Again, not available via the IRTC web page.

> #19 - Rob Strickland - Chain Reaction
> http://oz.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1997-06-30/chainrea.jpg
> 
> May-June 1997 IRTC winner (theme: Physics & Math)
> 
> I believe he had to hack motion blur into Povray just for this image.

Nice one! The idea dates back at least to 1986 though: After the 
Chernobyl disaster, the famous German children/science TV show "Sendung 
mit der Maus" ("The programme with the mouse") aired a full episode 
dedicated to nucelar power, with the mouse-trap-and-ping-pong-balls 
chain reaction demonstration being the highlight of the show.

I always believed the experiment was invented by the show's team, and I 
/think/ I recall that they happened to have recorded & aired it even 
earlier, though I may be mistaken on either or both. In any event, for 
me it was the most impressive "Maus" episode ever, and ranks very high 
among my childhood memories (although if they first aired it after 
Chernobyl it must actually have been early teenage memories already).

Another POV-Ray shot I've never seen before. I'm sure I'd have 
remembered & recognized /that/ one.


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: 4096 pixel challenge! [image attached]
Date: 8 Oct 2009 11:59:53
Message: <4ace0c79$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New schrieb:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Darren New wrote:
>>> Reminds me of "Eyeball Benders" from Games magazine.
>>>
>>> http://home.comcast.net/~rawieland4/5MinuteBof/EyeballBenders/eyeballbender.html 
>>
>>
>>
>> I clearly lack the necessary domain knowledge for this one.
> 
> That particular set seemed to all be games.

Hm...

...
"4 tines of a fork"
"4 (empty) gallon beer jugs"
"Cap holder end of a dry erase marker"
...
"Plastic forks in a box"
...
"Two eggs in carton"
...
"Green olive on a toothpick"
...
"Coin slot in nut dispenser"
...
"Plastic cups stacked up"
"A box of #2 pencils"
"Dental floss dispenser"
...

Doesn't seem too games-related to me ;-)


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: 4096 pixel challenge! [image attached]
Date: 8 Oct 2009 13:11:45
Message: <4ace1d51$1@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> Doesn't seem too games-related to me ;-)

OK, well, about half are games. The ones that weren't I had a harder time 
identifying, and I didn't peek.

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