Well, I just submitted my first IRTC entry.  Pretty exciting, although I
think I may have gone on a bit long in my text file since I was so
excited.  I wonder if anyone will read it all.  I submitted it now,
since I figured that anything else I would do to it would most likely
mess it up, and I won't have much time for it anyway in the next few
days.  Do most people usually wait until the last day to submit
entries?  Just curious.  I'm really looking forward to getting some
feedback on the image.  Did I mention that I'm excited?

Kevin Jackson-Mead
http://www.mindspring.com/~jacksonmead

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"Kevin Jackson-Mead" <jac### [at] mindspringcom> wrote in message
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> Well, I just submitted my first IRTC entry

Cool my first entry also!

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It's been my experience that the text files are always read... people use
the info you give them in it when judging.  I'm looking forward to seeing
your entry!

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Kevin Jackson-Mead <jac### [at] mindspringcom> wrote in message
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>Do most people usually wait until the last day to submit
> entries?  Just curious.

Don't know about generally, but I'm usually tweaking
the pic right up til the last minute. (Left my scene rendering
this morning at 5 pps <crosses fingers> Hope it finishes in time,

>  I'm really looking forward to getting some
> feedback on the image.  Did I mention that I'm excited?
>

The excitement usually hits about the 12th of the month for me
(waiting for results)

Gail
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Hello Kevin,

> Well, I just submitted my first IRTC entry.  Pretty exciting, although I
> think I may have gone on a bit long in my text file since I was so
> excited.  I wonder if anyone will read it all.  I submitted it now,
> since I figured that anything else I would do to it would most likely
> mess it up, and I won't have much time for it anyway in the next few
> days.  Do most people usually wait until the last day to submit
> entries?  Just curious.  I'm really looking forward to getting some
> feedback on the image.  Did I mention that I'm excited?

My first ever entry too! I'm currently rendering like hell to get it in 
time...

Claudius

P.S. ...and my first posting to news.povray.org :)

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On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 00:52:09 +0200, Claudius Klein wrote:
>Hello Kevin,
>
>My first ever entry too! I'm currently rendering like hell to get it in 
>time...
>
>Claudius
>
>P.S. ...and my first posting to news.povray.org :)

Welcome aboard, and good luck in the IRTC.  

Seems like a lot of new entrants this round, it'll be interesting
and no doubt refreshing to see the work of so many newcomers. 

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Kevin Jackson-Mead <jac### [at] mindspringcom> wrote:
> Well, I just submitted my first IRTC entry.  Pretty exciting, although I
> think I may have gone on a bit long in my text file since I was so
> excited.  I wonder if anyone will read it all.  I submitted it now,
> since I figured that anything else I would do to it would most likely
> mess it up, and I won't have much time for it anyway in the next few
> days.  Do most people usually wait until the last day to submit
> entries?  Just curious.  I'm really looking forward to getting some
> feedback on the image.  Did I mention that I'm excited?

Well, I *was* going to submit my first image this time, but someone turned
the computer off on the *last day* of tracing.  I've got a 'continue
previous trace' started, but I don't think it'll finish in time. 
*grumblegrumble*

Btw, what time zone do they use for determining the date of submission?  ;)
I don't see it in the rules, but I could have easily missed it.

Geoff

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Geoff Wedig wrote:

> Btw, what time zone do they use for determining the date of submission?  ;)
> I don't see it in the rules, but I could have easily missed it.

I'm pretty sure that I read that Pacific Standard Time is the time
zone used but don't quote me on it.

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Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:


> Geoff Wedig wrote:

>> Btw, what time zone do they use for determining the date of submission?  ;)
>> I don't see it in the rules, but I could have easily missed it.

> I'm pretty sure that I read that Pacific Standard Time is the time
> zone used but don't quote me on it.

Doesn't matter.  It's taking 1.5 hours/line at this point, with 100 lines to
go.  I'll have to either send an unfinished (almost done, complete render,
but before I tweaked some things) render or just not enter.  Darn.

Geoff

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Geoff Wedig wrote:
> 
> Btw, what time zone do they use for determining the date of submission?  ;)
> I don't see it in the rules, but I could have easily missed it.
> 
> Geoff

Pacific time. Besides, the real final deadline is when they stop it.
Often past midnight indeed. Once they start the script to generate
the web pages, etc, your stuck.

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or stop your current render if you don't 'need' the bottom lines and
submit that.

Geoff Wedig wrote:
> 
> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> 
> > Geoff Wedig wrote:
> 
> >> Btw, what time zone do they use for determining the date of submission?  ;)
> >> I don't see it in the rules, but I could have easily missed it.
> 
> > I'm pretty sure that I read that Pacific Standard Time is the time
> > zone used but don't quote me on it.
> 
> Doesn't matter.  It's taking 1.5 hours/line at this point, with 100 lines to
> go.  I'll have to either send an unfinished (almost done, complete render,
> but before I tweaked some things) render or just not enter.  Darn.
> 
> Geoff

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Geoff Wedig wrote:
> 
> 
> Doesn't matter.  It's taking 1.5 hours/line at this point, with 100 lines to
> go.  I'll have to either send an unfinished (almost done, complete render,
> but before I tweaked some things) render or just not enter.  Darn.
> 
> Geoff

Play safe, submit the unperfect one (this has already been done in
the past). Not that you'll probably be able to send your final
image after the voting is closed. It won't be rated, but it'll
be there...

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Steve wrote: 

> Welcome aboard, and good luck in the IRTC.
> 
> Seems like a lot of new entrants this round, it'll be interesting
> and no doubt refreshing to see the work of so many newcomers.

Thank you!

I'm reading some of the groups for a while now - and because of 
so many inspiring work and ideas I decided to grab that good old
POV-Ray again to create a complete scene and participate in the
IRTC. Maybe this will help me to get a little bit more active and
creative in this area.

Claudius

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I counted 136 entries just now... many of which are newcomers.  This is
going to be
a very nice round.  I didn't think we'd see so many entries because of the
topic...
water is tough enough to do, plus similar rounds have been done in the past.
I
can't wait to see the images!

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- Doug Eichenberg
  http://www.getinfo.net/douge
  dou### [at] nlsnet

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> I counted 136 entries just now...

I am 137

> water is tough enough to do, plus similar rounds have been done in the past.
> I
> can't wait to see the images!
>

yes, but underneath those tough-to-do, foaming rollers is a attractive
other-world of soft forms, soft textures, and diffuse light, well within the
range of beginners.  I also am eagerly awaiting the entries this round, I am
expecting the "bar" to be very high indeed.

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ryan constantine <rco### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> or stop your current render if you don't 'need' the bottom lines and
> submit that.

Unfortunately, most of the 'action', if you will, is at the bottom of the
image, so that wasn't an option.

I did manage to get it to finish by changing the image such that a few
partially transparent textures (water with foam) were totally opaque.  Not a
favored solution, but all I could do.

I'll probably start a new render over the weekend with the real textures,
just so I can find out how it comes out. ;)

Geoff

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Adrien Beau <adr### [at] freefr> wrote:
> Geoff Wedig wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Doesn't matter.  It's taking 1.5 hours/line at this point, with 100 lines to
>> go.  I'll have to either send an unfinished (almost done, complete render,
>> but before I tweaked some things) render or just not enter.  Darn.
>> 
>> Geoff

> Play safe, submit the unperfect one (this has already been done in
> the past). Not that you'll probably be able to send your final
> image after the voting is closed. It won't be rated, but it'll
> be there...

Well, that's more or less what I did, I just used imperfect #2 (one where I
took out a few complex thing to reduce render time to about 2 min / line)
rather than imperfect test render #1 (which is pretty good, but there's a
*major* flaw in it that had to go)

Geoff

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