Christian Froeschlin wrote:

> Maybe the IRTC should allow tagging a submission as "purist".
> That would be restricted to images created using an officially
> released version of a raytracer, using pure code, no modeller,
> no external data files, no image maps, no multipass renders, and
> of course absolutely no post-processing except jpg conversion.
> Source code would be mandatory for purist images and the highest
> ranking purist image gets an honorable mention ;)

What if the image maps are generated by the ray tracer?

What if the external data files are likewise generated?

What if the post-processing is done by the renderer?

I don't see how combining the results of several POV-Ray renders into 
one final image is less nearly "pure" POV-Ray than the alternative you 
suggest.  I would argue that it is more nearly pure, and not less, 
because it uses POV-Ray to do what is ordinarily done by other applications.

Regards,
John

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