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Like I said earlier, I am just a programming hobbyist.
(kinda nerdy thing to do, but I like it) I am self-
employed and very successful. I taught myself POV
and submitted an animation for the first time.
Only to find out IRTC is in a BLACK HOLE.
All you animators should read the last couple
of threads of irtc.stills. (Markus Altendorff told
me to do this) I am sad, I followed IRTC the
last two years and learned from it......
dbott
Here is the last thread I read from irtc.stills:
Greetings once again everyone.
As I promised in my last message, posted on the "New Topic?" thread,
I have returned with word from a Povray administrator concerning the
situation
with the IRTC.
The message I received is as follows:
>> I am concerned about the situation too, and have raised it with the
[IRTC]
>> admins. One of them (who normally does the final round processing) is not
>> responding to email, so I don't really know what is up.
>> Ultimately, if the IRTC isn't going to work properly anymore, probably it
>> might be time for it to have a rest. The code developed for POVCOMP is
>> available to restructure into a new competition, if someone wants to take
>> on the work, but it would be a fair job to make it all work automatically
>> (which IMO is important). I will of course offer support for this and the
>> needed hosting.
>> At the moment all we can do is wait and see what eventuates.
So it looks like there's a certain amount of confusion taking place among
the Povray admins themselves.
Perhaps we should be patient for a while longer and see what happens
concerning the IRTC. Though, in the meantime, it would probably be prudent
to continue developing plans for a potential successor to the IRTC, if it
should fail altogether.
Also, as I've said before, I vote for "primitives" for the Jan-Feb
pseudo-competition. But, then, where would we send our submissions to?
Would someone be willing to accept entries (just this one time) and post
them online?
Regards,
-Isaac K
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dbott schrieb:
> Like I said earlier, I am just a programming hobbyist.
> (kinda nerdy thing to do, but I like it) I am self-
> employed and very successful. I taught myself POV
> and submitted an animation for the first time.
> Only to find out IRTC is in a BLACK HOLE.
No it's not. Just because something has an attraction doesn't make it a
black hole. You may want to think of your upload as a file backup to a
write-only device for now, but i'm still hoping. ;)
> All you animators should read the last couple
> of threads of irtc.stills. (Markus Altendorff told
> me to do this) I am sad, I followed IRTC the
> last two years and learned from it......
No need for sadness, i guess. Looks like there's enough people
interested in it to keep it going, we may just need a bit of time to
sort things out :)
For fun: hey, i've sorted the IRTC's topics suggestions list in
mysterious ways. Let's play topics lottery: Post a number between 1 and
55 and i'll tell you what topic that would be ;)
Then feel free to animate something around that ;)
-Markus
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"Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] panoramas de> wrote in message
news:45b8902d$1@news.povray.org...
> dbott schrieb:
> > Like I said earlier, I am just a programming hobbyist.
> > (kinda nerdy thing to do, but I like it) I am self-
> > employed and very successful. I taught myself POV
> > and submitted an animation for the first time.
> > Only to find out IRTC is in a BLACK HOLE.
>
> No it's not. Just because something has an attraction doesn't make it a
> black hole. You may want to think of your upload as a file backup to a
> write-only device for now, but i'm still hoping. ;)
>
> > All you animators should read the last couple
> > of threads of irtc.stills. (Markus Altendorff told
> > me to do this) I am sad, I followed IRTC the
> > last two years and learned from it......
>
> No need for sadness, i guess. Looks like there's enough people
> interested in it to keep it going, we may just need a bit of time to
> sort things out :)
>
> For fun: hey, i've sorted the IRTC's topics suggestions list in
> mysterious ways. Let's play topics lottery: Post a number between 1 and
> 55 and i'll tell you what topic that would be ;)
> Then feel free to animate something around that ;)
>
> -Markus
I hope it all works out for the irtc.......Ok, as for my number, how
about......hm..........................45.
dbott
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dbott wrote:
> I hope it all works out for the irtc.......Ok, as for my number, how
> about......hm..........................45.
Congratulations, this corresponds to topic: "Space Settlements"
Annotation reads: "These huge artificial worlds were
conceived in the 1970s, but there have been almost no
artist's renderings since then. Hills, lakes, buildings,
vehicles, people -- all on the INSIDE of the world instead
of the outside. (See http://tinyurl.com/n83uy)"
Interesting.
-Markus
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"Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] anthrosphinxde> wrote in message
news:45b8f63b$1@news.povray.org...
> dbott wrote:
>
> > I hope it all works out for the irtc.......Ok, as for my number, how
> > about......hm..........................45.
>
> Congratulations, this corresponds to topic: "Space Settlements"
> Annotation reads: "These huge artificial worlds were
> conceived in the 1970s, but there have been almost no
> artist's renderings since then. Hills, lakes, buildings,
> vehicles, people -- all on the INSIDE of the world instead
> of the outside. (See http://tinyurl.com/n83uy)"
>
> Interesting.
>
> -Markus
All right -
Yes very interesting topic.....lets set a completion time.
Something quick and dirty or should we put some time into it. I worked on
coo
coo (my official irtc entry for Jan 15th) in about a month. I could and
should have
put a little more time into it. I'm kinda angry no one gets to see it right
now.
""""WHERE IS IRTC""" Sorry just venting a little................hm
Anyone else want to join in on this topic..............
How do you want to access them. You can download mine from
my web page eastsoundsuites.com. I can add a page to it.
It's not a graphics web site it's my business site.
Vacation rental...
dbott
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dbott wrote:
>>
>>> I hope it all works out for the irtc.......Ok, as for my number, how
>>> about......hm..........................45.
>> Congratulations, this corresponds to topic: "Space Settlements"
>> Annotation reads: "These huge artificial worlds were
>> conceived in the 1970s, but there have been almost no
>> artist's renderings since then. Hills, lakes, buildings,
>> vehicles, people -- all on the INSIDE of the world instead
>> of the outside. (See http://tinyurl.com/n83uy)"
>
> All right -
> Yes very interesting topic.....lets set a completion time.
> Something quick and dirty or should we put some time into it. I worked on
> coo
> coo (my official irtc entry for Jan 15th) in about a month. I could and
> should have
> put a little more time into it. I'm kinda angry no one gets to see it right
> now.
Hey, just upload it and i'll promise to look at it. Maybe we should
build a preliminary viewing page until the "real IRTC" is back? I've
some webspace to spare, so drop a link and i'll see what i can do. Or
zip it up and send it to
the_missing_irtc
then insert (at) and then complete the mail address with
anthrosphinx.de
(the hoops you need to jump through just to keep spammers out... sigh.)
> """"WHERE IS IRTC""" Sorry just venting a little................hm
Well, (just some delirious scenario following, not meant to offend
endless desert and/or ridden with the most poisonous creatures
imaginable and/or full of easy-going people with floppy hats full of
fishing hooks and corks ;) - so maybe our missing admin had a bad run-in
with some jellyfish and needs to stay in hospital for a month without
web access...?
> Anyone else want to join in on this topic..............
I've felt inspired, though i must admit my idea for an animation wasn't
original but rather leaned on an older short story from a 70s SciFi
collection. Would be nice to see if Cinema4D now can handle a 200 units
figure inside a 2,000,000 units toroid... older versions went through
the roof with rendering times if you did that - i had to split scenes
with backgrounds when i made the "Escape" outdoor scenes and render the
close-ups in two passes, with the background from pass1 as moving
texture in pass 2.
> How do you want to access them. You can download mine from
> my web page eastsoundsuites.com. I can add a page to it.
> It's not a graphics web site it's my business site.
> Vacation rental...
Careful: if we decide to do this (like the irtc.stills people working on
their "stand-in" project right now), its resulting movies may not make
it back to the irtc website - at least not as an "official" round. Of
course, i may be totally wrong there. I just don't want to "branch off
the IRTC", it's such a nice household name.
Hey, maybe my question about "two extra weeks" was taken seriously, and
the admin will be back by Jan.31st and wondering what all this was about...?
-Markus
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