How do folks feel about using a 1200x300 panoramic instead of the standard
800x600 pic for the current IRTC entry???????  My image is much more
impressive in the 1200x300 format over the 800x600 but I don't want to
submit something that people aren't going to like.

Thoughts?

Robert J Becraft
cas### [at] aolcom

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Robert J Becraft <cas### [at] aolcom> wrote:
: How do folks feel about using a 1200x300 panoramic instead of the standard
: 800x600 pic for the current IRTC entry???????  My image is much more
: impressive in the 1200x300 format over the 800x600 but I don't want to
: submit something that people aren't going to like.

  I think that images bigger than 800x600 are automatically rejected.

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Robert J Becraft wrote:
> 
> How do folks feel about using a 1200x300 panoramic instead of the standard
> 800x600 pic for the current IRTC entry???????  My image is much more
> impressive in the 1200x300 format over the 800x600 but I don't want to
> submit something that people aren't going to like.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

I believe for the average entrant the 4 to 3 ratio is much more
convienient than a 4 to 1 ratio (this is also true for me). Not every
scene is usable for the 4:1 ratio ... mine isn't.

I believe you are allowed to use 800x200 if you really need this ratio.


Marc

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If I've understood the rules right, you are allowed to make any resolution
if it's no larger than 800x600.
Like 574X182 but they prefer 800x600, because that saves a lot of server
space.
I personally prefer it too, because it's a lot more faster to download.

I've made a 1280x1024 version which I have on my homepage, I think you
should do that too, and urge people (in your text file) to look at it.

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Robert J Becraft <cas### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
news:384cfcd1@news.povray.org...
> How do folks feel about using a 1200x300 panoramic instead of the standard
> 800x600 pic for the current IRTC entry???????  My image is much more
> impressive in the 1200x300 format over the 800x600 but I don't want to
> submit something that people aren't going to like.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Robert J Becraft
> cas### [at] aolcom
>
>

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800x600 is equivalent pixel-wise to 1200x400 or 2400x200 or 1600x300... all
are 480000 pixels.

The problem with the 800x600 format is that to allow enough of a landscape
to be seen in that width, you have to be further back from the scene in
order to view it.  This increases the amount of wasted space on the top and
bottoms of the image and each pixel is less detail overall.

By going to a 1200x400 format, I can get right up close to the details in
the image and not loose objects on the left and right fringes of the image.

I've re-read the IRTC submission rules, and this may be a mute point "The
JPEG file must have a width dimension of 800 or less and a height dimension
of 600 or less. The largest image size we accept is 800x600, we recommend
you use that size, but if you'd like you can use a smaller size. "

Any IRTC Admins reading this and want to comment on why an image with the
same pixel count would not be acceptable?

I'll have to post the panoramic on a web-site for everyone to view and hope
that they do.

Robert J Becraft
aka cas### [at] aolcom

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Robert J Becraft wrote in message <384d5f68@news.povray.org>...
>I've re-read the IRTC submission rules, and this may be a mute point "The
>JPEG file must have a width dimension of 800 or less and a height dimension
>of 600 or less. The largest image size we accept is 800x600, we recommend
>you use that size, but if you'd like you can use a smaller size. "
>
>Any IRTC Admins reading this and want to comment on why an image with the
>same pixel count would not be acceptable?


I'm not an IRTC admin, but I'd have trouble viewing an image larger than
800x600 since my antique 14 inch monitor doesn't work well at resolutions
higher than that.

Mark

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Robert J Becraft wrote:
> 
> How do folks feel about using a 1200x300 panoramic instead of the standard
> 800x600 pic for the current IRTC entry???????  My image is much more
> impressive in the 1200x300 format over the 800x600 but I don't want to
> submit something that people aren't going to like.
> 
> Thoughts?

	I'm pretty sure the software will kick you out. However it
should eat 800x200 without a problem.

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Robert J Becraft wrote:

> How do folks feel about using a 1200x300 panoramic instead of the standard
> 800x600 pic for the current IRTC entry???????  My image is much more
> impressive in the 1200x300 format over the 800x600 but I don't want to
> submit something that people aren't going to like.
>
> Thoughts?

    BTW, when doing this be certain to change the camera to (1200/300)*x in
addition to changing the rendering window size.

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Robert J Becraft wrote:

> How do folks feel about using a 1200x300 panoramic instead of the standard
> 800x600 pic for the current IRTC entry???????  My image is much more
> impressive in the 1200x300 format over the 800x600 but I don't want to
> submit something that people aren't going to like.
>
> Thoughts?

    Also I started using 16x9 (HDTV / Cinemascope) this week and I like it a
lot.

    800x450 (AA nnd No AA and 400x225 of course) for rendering and (16/9)*x
for the camera.

    Quite a nice effect. And with all the information bars of W98 that ratio
is quite close to the useful screen in the first place. That mean much less
distortion when expanding it to full screen.

    Yes, I am hyping this ratio in several newsgroups. It has been around
since Cinemascope. It will be all TV transmissions in five (seven?) years. It
has been the HDTV design standard for over ten years.

    Advantages. The image just looks more impressive. There is more room to
work without crowding things. It takes less time to render.

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Mark Wagner wrote:
> 
> Robert J Becraft wrote in message <384d5f68@news.povray.org>...
> >I've re-read the IRTC submission rules, and this may be a mute point "The
> >JPEG file must have a width dimension of 800 or less and a height dimension
> >of 600 or less. The largest image size we accept is 800x600, we recommend
> >you use that size, but if you'd like you can use a smaller size. "
> >
> >Any IRTC Admins reading this and want to comment on why an image with the
> >same pixel count would not be acceptable?
> 
> I'm not an IRTC admin, but I'd have trouble viewing an image larger than
> 800x600 since my antique 14 inch monitor doesn't work well at resolutions
> higher than that.

And that is the exact reason why.

Personally, i prefer 1600x1200 (and 1920x1200 when my 24" Sony shows up)
but i doubt you'd like that very much.

dik

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