POV-Ray : Newsgroups : irtc.general : Minimum Entry Requirements : Re: Minimum Entry Requirements Server Time
1 Jun 2024 10:43:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Minimum Entry Requirements  
From: clipka
Date: 18 Jun 2009 07:15:00
Message: <web.4a3a216064396b4fe01952250@news.povray.org>
Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> Maybe the IRTC should allow tagging a submission as "purist".
> That would be restricted to images created using an officially
> released version of a raytracer, using pure code, no modeller,

Hmm... what if that particular raytracer had an integrated modeller??

And what would stop me from modelling a mesh in Wings3D, exporting it,
reformating it, and claiming that I'd hacked That Mesh2 Code up myself? Who the
* could tell (or rather, prove)?


> no external data files, no image maps, no multipass renders, and
> of course absolutely no post-processing except jpg conversion.
> Source code would be mandatory for purist images and the highest
> ranking purist image gets an honorable mention ;)

Yeah, but bloody likely nothing more than that :P


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