Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandluf9couk> wrote:
: What you couldn't do is claim that the whole picture is
: raytraced/algorithmised/whatever.

  So if I paint an image map to use it on an object in my raytraced scene,
it's not a valid entry because the whole picture is not algorithmically
calculated?

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In article <397daf95@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

>Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandluf9couk> wrote:
>: What you couldn't do is claim that the whole picture is
>: raytraced/algorithmised/whatever.
>
>  So if I paint an image map to use it on an object in my raytraced scene,
>it's not a valid entry because the whole picture is not algorithmically
>calculated?

???

(a) the quote you're replying to doesn't imply that. It only implies 
that if you paint an image map to use on an object, you cannot claim 
otherwise. (I hope this isn't controversial.)

(b) The post you're replying to covered this in a different paragraph:

"It would seem to me that you could submit this to the IRTC provided 
that the "source" included the picture from stage one. This would be the 
equivalent of an image map being the bulk of a raytrace, and with 
correspondingly low scores."

So, yes, of course you can use image maps. The more your scene is an 
image map, however, the more low scores you can expect to receive.

Jerry

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"Jerry" <jer### [at] acusdedu> wrote in message
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> In article <397daf95@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>
> wrote:
>
> (a) the quote you're replying to doesn't imply that. It only implies
> that if you paint an image map to use on an object, you cannot claim
> otherwise. (I hope this isn't controversial.)
>
> (b) The post you're replying to covered this in a different paragraph:
>
> "It would seem to me that you could submit this to the IRTC provided
> that the "source" included the picture from stage one. This would be the
> equivalent of an image map being the bulk of a raytrace, and with
> correspondingly low scores."
>
> So, yes, of course you can use image maps. The more your scene is an
> image map, however, the more low scores you can expect to receive.
>
> Jerry

Couldn't have put it better myself. Dunno why I'm responding except I wanted
to see Tom next to Jerry. ;)

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Dick Balaska <dic### [at] buckosoftcom> wrote in message
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> The \"D\" wrote:
>
> > Ok. thanks. thought I remembered something about it having to be
raytraced,
> > and I'm pretty sure terragen doesn't ray trace. Thanks for the help
>
> If there is a program that turns terragen "source" into POV-Ray source,
> then it must be some kind of rendering tool, which is legal.

well Acutally wilbur converts the terragen terain file into a POV targa
heightfiled (sort of) it does also have the possiblility of converting the
terrain file in to a POV mesh include file but that's rather ineficient. Not
sure how forrester converts the file but it lets you do stuff like put trees
and plants and other pov made objects onto the terain (not sure if or what
it's converted to to do this). Which I'd rather not do for the current
(ending aug '00) topic of the Sea since the textures produced in forrester
are inferior to terragen's surface maps, and overall finished scene (at
least without major tweaking)

-The "D"
    It's as easy as 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993......

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Shouldn't it be called 'The Internet Rendering Competition' (IRC) then?

Just wondering...

Nekar

"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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>   It's a bit contradictory that in the internet RAYTRACING competition ANY
> renderer is allowed, even if it doesn't know anything about raytracing.
>
> --
> main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
> ):_;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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How about if someone uses just the options under Render in Photoshop to make
his pic...

Just wondering

Nekar

"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandluf9couk> wrote in message
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> "Jerry" <jer### [at] acusdedu> wrote in message
> news:jerry-7E0E52.08415825072000@news.povray.org...
> > In article <397daf95@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>
> > wrote:
> >
> > (a) the quote you're replying to doesn't imply that. It only implies
> > that if you paint an image map to use on an object, you cannot claim
> > otherwise. (I hope this isn't controversial.)
> >
> > (b) The post you're replying to covered this in a different paragraph:
> >
> > "It would seem to me that you could submit this to the IRTC provided
> > that the "source" included the picture from stage one. This would be the
> > equivalent of an image map being the bulk of a raytrace, and with
> > correspondingly low scores."
> >
> > So, yes, of course you can use image maps. The more your scene is an
> > image map, however, the more low scores you can expect to receive.
> >
> > Jerry
>
> Couldn't have put it better myself. Dunno why I'm responding except I
wanted
> to see Tom next to Jerry. ;)
>
>

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On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:19:52 +0200, Nekar Xenos wrote:
>Shouldn't it be called 'The Internet Rendering Competition' (IRC) then?

You do realize that the post to which you're replying is several months 
old, right?

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Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
: You do realize that the post to which you're replying is several months 
: old, right?

  On the other hand, the issue is not old. It's still a good question.

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main(_,c,m){for(m=32;c=*i++-49;c&m?puts(""):m)for(_=(
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Warp wrote:
> 
> Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
> : You do realize that the post to which you're replying is several months
> : old, right?
> 
>   On the other hand, the issue is not old. It's still a good question.

The rule just have to be changed to :
"the image must be a 2D projection of 3D spatial data"

Maybe a little technical, but very clear.

Fabien.

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I was just browsing and then I lost track of time...    ;)

Nekar

"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:19:52 +0200, Nekar Xenos wrote:
> >Shouldn't it be called 'The Internet Rendering Competition' (IRC) then?
>
> You do realize that the post to which you're replying is several months
> old, right?
>
> --
> Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
> My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.

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