Matt Giwer wrote:
> 
>         The second thing (and call it sour grapes if you will) is that
> there is a decided prejudice against POV-Ray.

 I didn't felt that, could you be more specific ?  (Usually, there are
rather accusations of pro-Pov attitudes).

>         I am not saying I should have won the "incredible" contest. I am
> not saying I should have been a tenth runner up.

 That's because your moon was too spherical ;-)))

>         I am saying that there were only about ten folks on topic and I
> had at least one if not two of them. Not a complaint but an
> issue. Everyone has to lose but winners clearly off topic? Wrong.
  
 ...

>         But clearly and without question the idea of a topic being of
> concern is meaninless. Forget the topic, it has no bearing upon
> the competition. I am used to being damned so don't bother.

I agree with you.  That round has very few really on-topic images.
I think that the topic itself was responsible of that, being much
too wide.  That's why I didn't participate that round, while I
participated
the 10 previous ones.

The purpose of a topic is to stimulate the entrants' imagination,
but it seems that many people ask themselves "how will I put my
favourite
sci-fi/pyramid/fantasy/... stuff with that topic ?".  Of course, it
results in uninteresting, seen-thousand-times images.

I fear (!) that "horror" will bring the same problems, especially since
it's an "asked" topic, and many people will just give their little
halloween/freddy/... uninspired images.

All we can do is continuing to give interesting images to the 
competition, on-topic ones, while asking us "how am I gonna surprise
them, this time ?"

Fabien.

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