POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.competition : Competition status : Re: Competition status Server Time
4 May 2024 04:05:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Competition status  
From: Gilles Tran
Date: 23 Oct 2004 17:41:18
Message: <417acffe@news.povray.org>

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> I'm planning to look on the bright side.  There were quite a few things 
> that I wanted to do, but simply ran out of time.  I expected that.  I 
> realized the time-constraints.  I'm quite hopeful that I can make a number 
> of improvements to what I've already put together, including certain 
> technical problems that I didn't notice until too late.

All I can say at this point is: you've got 3 months. Take your time. I know 
it looks like I'm trying hard to spin the postponement in a positive way ;) 
but I've noticed many times that waiting a little before declaring an image 
"finished" is often very beneficial. After working hard on something, we 
tend to focus on the small details while the big picture (no puns intended) 
gets blurry. And some stuff, well, we just can't find the courage to change 
it on the spot.

That's why I never upload images immediately at Zazzle or on my website. I 
put them through a mandatory waiting period, until I can have a fresh look 
at them, which sometimes results in fixing a lot of problems, many of them 
blindingly obvious after a couple of weeks (and the fixing is also less 
painful then, if not pleasant).

G.


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