clipka wrote:
> 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 :-(

I thought I'd mix it up a bit and throw in a few from the old IRTC page: 
http://www.povray.org/competition/ .  I figured this might be a nice bit 
of nostalgia for some of the old time users.


>> #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

I suppose he could have made in it POV then another website could have 
stolen it from him shortly after he posted it :)


> 
>> #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.

I sort of agree, but I included it because I thought it would be 
interesting to have a very early work by Gilles Tran on there, and the 
existence of a remake is what led me to this one.


>> #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 did not know that bit of history.  That's rather interesting.

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Kevin Wampler schrieb:

>>> #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 did not know that bit of history.  That's rather interesting.

As I said, I can't say for sure whether they actually thought up that 
demonstration, or got the idea from someone else. All I can say is that 
they aired it shortly after the Chernobyl disaster (essentially to 
explain to children what their parents were presently so worried about, 
and why they wouldn't let them play outside), so that obviously must 
have been in 1986.

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