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From: Norbert Kern
Subject: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 2 Nov 2002 17:13:03
Message: <3dc44def$1@news.povray.org>
hi,

entries for the new round are out and can be seen on the usual place.
Congratulations to Chris Hormann, who made the entry with the longest render
time of all IRTC rounds so far.


Norbert


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From: Justin Smith
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 2 Nov 2002 21:25:03
Message: <web.3dc48876b02902df5a6eeec70@news.povray.org>
Norbert Kern wrote:
>hi,
>
>entries for the new round are out and can be seen on the usual place.
>Congratulations to Chris Hormann, who made the entry with the longest render
>time of all IRTC rounds so far.
>
>
>Norbert

I'm confused. I went to the irtc.org site, and it still shows the
"Loneliness" round as being the most recent one. And yes, I did click
"reload" several times to make sure.


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From: Slime
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 2 Nov 2002 21:29:09
Message: <3dc489f5$1@news.povray.org>
> I'm confused. I went to the irtc.org site, and it still shows the
> "Loneliness" round as being the most recent one. And yes, I did click
> "reload" several times to make sure.


Same thing here. New topic hasn't been posted either.

However, it's possible to figure out (from looking at past competitions)
that the viewing page is http://www.irtc.org/stills/2002-10-31/view.html .

 - Slime
[ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]


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From: Txemi Jendrix
Subject: RE: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 2 Nov 2002 22:50:53
Message: <3dc49d1d@news.povray.org>
Slime <slm### [at] slimelandcom> escribió en el mensaje de noticias
3dc489f5$1@news.povray.org...
> > I'm confused. I went to the irtc.org site, and it still shows the
> > "Loneliness" round as being the most recent one. And yes, I did click
> > "reload" several times to make sure.

The text files, thumbs and images are in the ftp site
ftp.irtc.org
I use to download the winvote zip files:
ftp.irtc.org/pub/stills/2002-10-31/winvote

> Same thing here. New topic hasn't been posted either.

New topic is "frozen moment", you can see it when you
connect to the ftp Irtc site, in the log window (I'm using
WS_FTP95 LE)

Hope this helps.

Txemi Jendrix
http://www.txemijendrix.com


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From: Shay
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 3 Nov 2002 02:48:44
Message: <3dc4d4dc@news.povray.org>
"Norbert Kern" <nor### [at] t-onlinede> wrote in message
news:3dc44def$1@news.povray.org...

> entries for the new round are out and can be seen on the usual place.

Some cool stuff in there, and only a fiew Brice / Terragen entries. Of
course the obligatory nude woman.

 -Shay


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 3 Nov 2002 04:26:19
Message: <3DC4EBBA.38F067A2@gmx.de>
Norbert Kern wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> entries for the new round are out and can be seen on the usual place.
> Congratulations to Chris Hormann, who made the entry with the longest render
> time of all IRTC rounds so far.

:-)

When i saw i would outstrip H.E.Day's record this time i saw it 'with one
laughing and one weeping eye'.  Of course it's an honor to hold this
record but on the other hand it would be very nice if such scenes would
simply render faster...

Christoph

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From: Tom Melly
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 4 Nov 2002 12:24:27
Message: <3dc6ad4b$1@news.povray.org>
"Shay" <shi### [at] houstonrrcom> wrote in message news:3dc4d4dc@news.povray.org...
>

> Some cool stuff in there, and only a fiew Brice / Terragen entries. Of
> course the obligatory nude woman.
>

but, amazingly, almost on topic (at least, the one I noticed from a quick skim
through the entries).


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From: Shay
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 4 Nov 2002 13:47:30
Message: <3dc6c0c2$1@news.povray.org>
Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote in message
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> >
>
> but, amazingly, almost on topic (at least, the one I noticed from a quick
skim
> through the entries).
>

Maybe the most on topic.<g> Many stated that they interpreted the
description of this topic to mean a genuine, real-life landscape. If you
read the text file sent with that image, you will see that his image is a
depiction of his wife's body. Every other entry in the round is make
believe.

It looks to me like most of the entrants chose to interpret the topic
themselves and to ignore the topic description, perhaps none moreso than I.
I guess we will see which is most important to the judges (topic name or
topic description) in a few weeks.

 -Shay


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 5 Nov 2002 12:00:11
Message: <web.3dc7f85fb02902dfb29393de0@news.povray.org>
Shay wrote:

>...... Every other entry in the round is make
>believe.
>
>It looks to me like most of the entrants chose to interpret the topic
>themselves and to ignore the topic description, perhaps none moreso than I.
>I guess we will see which is most important to the judges (topic name or
>topic description) in a few weeks.
>
> -Shay
>
Since when were the Western Isles of Scotland a make-believe landscape??

Highly offended.

John Guthkelch (Doctor John) (entrant of jgwisles.jpg)


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From: Shay
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 5 Nov 2002 12:12:31
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Doctor John <jgu### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message
news:web.3dc7f85fb02902dfb29393de0@news.povray.org...
>
> Since when were the Western Isles of Scotland a make-believe landscape??
>
> Highly offended.
>

Yeah, I have seen a few other real landscapes since I started voting and
reading the descriptions more closely. Nice image, btw.

 -Shay


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 6 Nov 2002 08:35:13
Message: <web.3dc919acb02902dfb29393de0@news.povray.org>
Shay wrote:
>
>Yeah, I have seen a few other real landscapes since I started voting and
>reading the descriptions more closely. Nice image, btw.
>
> -Shay
>
Thanks for the compliment.
You are officially forgiven (In the name of Ken the Father, Linus the Son
and rms the Holy Gnu) <biggrin>

John


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 6 Nov 2002 08:45:06
Message: <web.3dc91c75b02902dfb29393de0@news.povray.org>
Doctor John wrote:
>Shay wrote:
>>
>>Yeah, I have seen a few other real landscapes since I started voting and
>>reading the descriptions more closely. Nice image, btw.
>>
>> -Shay
>>
BTW Forgot to add.. Your entry is brilliant. (Still trying to decide if it's
on or off topic, tho')

John


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From: Shay
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 6 Nov 2002 10:12:52
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Doctor John <jgu### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message
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> >>
> BTW Forgot to add.. Your entry is brilliant. (Still trying to decide if
it's
> on or off topic, tho')
>

Thanks, I've been struggling with that for every entry in the round. Not
whether or not the image is on topic (I believe they all are), but how to
distinguish between an entire round of almost all very very similar topics.

I am looking a lot at how specific the concepts are, whether the person had
a strong, clear idea of how he wanted his landscape to look, or just played
around until he got an attractive looking height-field. There are a lot of
concepts in this round which are *very* strong in that respect.

There were a few other artificial landscape concepts mentioned at the
beginning of the round. I am disappointed that none of them made it.

 -Shay


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 7 Nov 2002 12:30:07
Message: <web.3dcaa27db02902dfb29393de0@news.povray.org>
On the subject of on-/off-topic, see my post in "New Stills Topic: Frozen
Moments" thread.
Oh, yeah.. finally decided your image is definitely on-topic. It may not be
naturalistic but it definitely has an important point to make.
<jealousy>Wish I'd thought of it. </jealousy>

John


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From: Shay
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 7 Nov 2002 13:54:59
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Doctor John <jgu### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message
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> On the subject of on-/off-topic, see my post in "New Stills Topic: Frozen
> Moments" thread.

Looks challenging

> <snip> your image <snip> definitely has an important point to make.
> Wish I'd thought of it.

Wow. Thanks. About half way through, I really wished I *hadn't*. <g>

 -Shay


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From: Jim Charter
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 7 Nov 2002 16:00:54
Message: <3DCAD6AA.8080705@aol.com>
Shay wrote:
> Doctor John <jgu### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message
> news:web.3dc91c75b02902dfb29393de0@news.povray.org...
> 
>>BTW Forgot to add.. Your entry is brilliant. (Still trying to decide if
> 
> it's
> 
>>on or off topic, tho')
>>
> 
> 
> Thanks, I've been struggling with that for every entry in the round. Not
> whether or not the image is on topic (I believe they all are), but how to
> distinguish between an entire round of almost all very very similar topics.
> 
> I am looking a lot at how specific the concepts are, whether the person had
> a strong, clear idea of how he wanted his landscape to look, or just played
> around until he got an attractive looking height-field. There are a lot of
> concepts in this round which are *very* strong in that respect.
> 
>>

I think I am going to force myself to comment on a majority of the 
images then go back and re-evaluate my marking, especially regarding 
concept.  I have never found it so difficult  to figure out what to say 
( think? )


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 8 Nov 2002 09:15:04
Message: <web.3dcbc5edb02902dfb29393de0@news.povray.org>
Jim Charter wrote:

>
>I think I am going to force myself to comment on a majority of the
>images then go back and re-evaluate my marking, especially regarding
>concept.  I have never found it so difficult  to figure out what to say
>( think? )
>
I think that makes at least 70 of us having the same problem.

Who said this round was going to be easy and/or boring

John
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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Spectacular Landscape round entries
Date: 8 Nov 2002 09:15:05
Message: <web.3dcbc69cb02902dfb29393de0@news.povray.org>
Jim Charter wrote:
>
>I think I am going to force myself to comment on a majority of the
>images then go back and re-evaluate my marking, especially regarding
>concept.  I have never found it so difficult  to figure out what to say
>( think? )
>
You, me and about 70 others, I think.

Who said this round was going to be easy/boring?

John

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