Jim Henderson schrieb:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:38:06 -0400, Michael Hunter wrote:
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> 
> It just happened that POV-Ray was one of the best tools available, so 
> submissions tended to use it.
> 
> Jim

There may be another reason for a main usage of POV-Ray: The rules of 
IRTC prefer(ed? - at least in the past) the more or less "free 
software". Keeping that in mind POV-Ray was one of only few tools to do 
ray tracing at all.

In my opinion it's not the worst idea to empower such free and/or open 
source tools by paying a little higher degree of respect to such 
submissions. The final benefit is on all that hobby nad spare time ray 
tracers out there, like me.

Though, as a negatve side effect you will bring some tecknologies or 
methologies used by closed source and licensed software more or less 
down, because they are restricted to patents.

IRTC shall be open for everyone and any institution, but its main target 
group should be the volunteer and hobby ray tracer.

Punk-T

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