Paul Bourke wrote:
> Well, christmas is approaching .... lots of time to devote to creativity ....

Yes, sure... ;-)

> who out there thinks it's time for another fun POVray competition? If you do 
> then the harder question is obviously "what sort of competition?".
> ps: I'm offering to run/manage it.

I think something like a shortest code contest would be great, some 
technical restriction providing a special challenge.  Possible directions:

1) only allow the use of a certain primitive.
2) provide a certain object that has to be used in the submissions (this 
could be christmas specific).
3) provide a certain set of base scene elements (light source and camera 
for examle) that has to be used unmodified in the scene.  This could for 
example be a panorama view setup that is then rendered into an image for 
  a panorama viewer.
4) combine any of the above with a code size restriction.

Christoph

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