"Steve" <ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:54:36 +0100, 25ct wrote:
> >
> >     Thanks Phil. I understand now, so I will unsubscribe to that one.
> >     I've now downloaded Pov-ray, and I am slowly picking my way through
it.
> >It's not something that I am used to at all, but I can see that 3/5 years
> >down the line that people will become proficient at it, or less time
maybe.
> >    Having looked at the entrants to the competition, I am even more
> >interested in it. I usually mess around with PS 5, and come up with some
> >quite good pics, but this Pov-ray is a whole new ball game!
> >    A couple of quick questions if I may, Phil. I have an error at the
start
> >of the help section. All of the help is there, it's just that when I go
to
> >the next stages, this error message always pops up, do I go back to the
> >Pov-ray website, and e-mail them about it?
> >   Lastly, and this no slur on the team at Pov-ray,(I'm sure they do a
great
> >job), do you think that the prizes for the competition could be up-graded
so
> >as to attract more entrants? I'm just thinking that there are, say for
> >example, surfing competitions that pay out quite a lot of money to the
> >winner.  It just seems that a lot of work goes into these images, ref:
the
> >pearl harbour one, that must have taken ages.(It's brilliant as well!)
> >   Just a thought.
> >                                ~25ct~
>
>
> Have a look at old messages in povray.general, I think there's
> something about error messages when opening the help file.
>
> When I vote on the IRTC it takes me roughly 40 minutes to investigate,
> consider and comment on a good image, some images only take 5 minutes,
> but at say 40 minutes per image, at 100 images (about average), hey
> that's 66 hours work.  I read very slowly, and sometimes rerender the
> images of entrants so that I can advise them on possible improvements
> this can involve building macros and while loops where the entrant has
> declared the same complicated object 100 times in their scene file
> etc.  Sometimes I need to go on the net to research the capabilities
> of the renderer or tools that an entrant has used.
>
> I wouldn't want to discourage anyone from entering the IRTC, but I also
> wouldn't want to see a doubling of entrants per round, that'd lead to a
> dilution in both the quality of the images entered and the quality of
> the voting aswell.
>
> --
> Cheers
> Steve              email mailto:ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet
>
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       Thanks Ron and Steve,

     I completely understand now.  I've had a look at pov.bin.images, so I
can understand what you are saying Steve.  I think that all the images in
there are great. I quite liked the 'crappy' eye one. I'm not too sure if
this is a 'nice' term or not, though!  :o)
    I'm definately looking forward to the day that I can post one up, to see
what you all think of it. I have the imagination and the artistic skills
generally,  but it seems I have a lot to learn before I even get that far.
    Thanks for your time.

                           ~Steve~

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