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>Christian Froeschlin on date 24/03/2013 20.30 wrote:
> I think a good mix would be
>
> 1 week - doodle topic for people with commitment phobia
> 2 months - room for traditonalists
> 6 month - diligent scene builders with availability issues
This could be an interesting base to think about
> BTW: Do you have access to the data generated by the contests?
> It sounds like the site is very much hanging on the goodwill of
> an unknown entity and it would be too bad if all the images
> will be lost at some point in the future without backup.
I think that the most of the data could be retrieved from personal
copies of the users. My current thinking is that we should look to rely
on some existing platform adapting it to *rtc needs.
Paolo
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Paolo Gibellini wrote:
> I think that the most of the data could be retrieved from personal
> copies of the users. My current thinking is that we should look to rely
> on some existing platform adapting it to *rtc needs.
I was just looking at wordpress and gallery plugins because I
consider adding a blog to my webpage, and out of the box it would
seem to be possible to simply create an "album" for a specific
topic or contest, and all registered users can upload images,
comment on other images and rate them on a 1-5 star system.
(this was the "wordpress photo album plus" plugin).
Of course there is no automatic system to limit the dates of
a contest or determine winners.
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Christian Froeschlin wrote:
actually there even seems to be a contest plugin although
it has not been maintained in a while
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-photocontest/
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Stephen <mca### [at] aol com> wrote:
> On 25/03/2013 8:24 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> >>
> >> BTW: Do you have access to the data generated by the contests?
> >> It sounds like the site is very much hanging on the goodwill of
> >> an unknown entity and it would be too bad if all the images
> >> will be lost at some point in the future without backup.
> >
> > Not sure. The data may disappear, but so did most of the IRTC data, or
> > am I wrong there? That data seems to be only partially available nowadays.
>
> To add to Thomas's answer. All members can access all images through the
> Archives. But I have know idea if anyone has actually downloaded them. A
> big job doing then one at a time.
Sorry, was knocked out by the flu some days...
What should I say to this. Yes, I'm guilty, I've have done it (not one at a
time), but only the images and the animations themselves (storing the authors
and main statistics as well) but not the comments by the authors or the voters.
But I'm working on it...
Most of the IRTC data are still available only the second period is lost. All
entries from the beginning till the hiatus 2006 are still available (ftp-link at
www.irtc.org).
>
> I also thought that if we can talk the developer into converting the
> animation section into another stills one. We could run two concurrent
> challenges with different run times.
>
This may prove a problem since he even forgot the invoices you told.
Best regards,
Michael
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On 26/03/2013 8:20 PM, MichaelJF wrote:
>> >I also thought that if we can talk the developer into converting the
>> >animation section into another stills one. We could run two concurrent
>> >challenges with different run times.
>> >
> This may prove a problem since he even forgot the invoices you told.
No, I don't think so. It is quite a small amount.
Glad, your over your flu. I had it at the beginning of the year, not nice.
--
Regards
Stephen
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On 26-3-2013 21:20, MichaelJF wrote:
> Sorry, was knocked out by the flu some days...
Nasty thing. Hope you are better now.
>
> Most of the IRTC data are still available only the second period is lost. All
> entries from the beginning till the hiatus 2006 are still available (ftp-link at
> www.irtc.org).
I stand corrected. I overlooked the ftp link. Typical blindness hiding
lines below the ones I am looking at in the first place ;-)
Thomas
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>Christian Froeschlin on date 26/03/2013 14.28 wrote:
> actually there even seems to be a contest plugin although
> it has not been maintained in a while
>
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-photocontest/
>
It could be a starting point.
It seems that the major difficult to maintain irtc (old and new) and
tc-rtc sites is in the lack of time of the members of the POV-community.
I like custom solution, but without time to develop them I'd prefer to
use a mature existing system (like WordPress and the plugin you suggest).
;-)
Paolo
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Paolo Gibellini wrote:
> >Christian Froeschlin on date 26/03/2013 14.28 wrote:
>> actually there even seems to be a contest plugin although
>> it has not been maintained in a while
>>
>> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-photocontest/
>>
> It could be a starting point.
> It seems that the major difficult to maintain irtc (old and new) and
> tc-rtc sites is in the lack of time of the members of the POV-community.
> I like custom solution, but without time to develop them I'd prefer to
> use a mature existing system (like WordPress and the plugin you suggest).
> ;-)
> Paolo
>
If you want, I can resurrect the data for the most recent IRTC run and
provide titles, descriptions, authors, comments and links to images for
all the entries in all the contests. With a small amount of effort I can
export it in XML format.
David Buck
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>David Buck on date 06/05/2013 2.51 wrote:
> If you want, I can resurrect the data for the most recent IRTC run and
> provide titles, descriptions, authors, comments and links to images for
> all the entries in all the contests. With a small amount of effort I can
> export it in XML format.
>
> David Buck
Thank you, David!
As said, I think that IRTC & TC-RTC's history is valuable for people
interested into raytracing.
At the moment I'm very busy in real life, but this summer I wish I could
explore the capabilities of Wordpress (or something similar) and ask for
pov-users opinions.
A dump of latest IRTC entries will be surely useful.
;-)
Paolo
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"MichaelJF" <mi-### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> I think the time of ray tracing contests is gone now. <snip>
> I propose that this is the last round of the TINA CheP
> contest.
rounds after that, but have not participated since. If it helps, here are the
reasons why:
my account was lost altogether) for the user name Shay. Yes, I can get a new
account with another name, but I would prefer my old account associated with my
would certainly have commented, if not entered a time or two, if my account had
been accessible.
2. Small audience. Producing something for a small audience of like-minded
feedback.
media to look at. Consideration of any one item is almost unwarranted.
/how/ to finish an image. Many of the interminable WIPs I see are modeled with
techniques that will grind progress to a near-halt long before an image can be
completed.
5. The quality on a lot of the images is terrible. This might be related to the
slow death of the POV-Ray newsgroups, but things that used to be a matter of
course (decent sky, metal textures, radiosity) are missing from many of the
foremost, your image should convey that you give a shit.
******** Suggestions:
2. Give more constructive feedback to all of the entries. Encourage people to
3. Encourage everyone to back off the bad copies of professional work and
explore still life, abstract, surrealism, architecture and other genres more
4. Go back to the book titles. The tc-rtc survives, if barely. The irtc does
6. Post actual WIPs (emphasis on the P) in P.B.I to encourage anyone there to
come take a look at the tc-rtc.
7. Find my password.
-Shay
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