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RobertoOrtiz
08-20-2004, 05:44 AM
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"developers announce POVCOMP 2004


The developers of POV-Ray (http://www.povray.org/) have announced the launch of POVCOMP 2004 (http://www.povcomp.com/), a POV-Ray contest being sponsored by AMD Corporation (http://www.amd.com/), Appro International (http://www.appro.com/), Zazzle.com (http://www.zazzle.com/), and Planet Mirror (http://www.planetmirror.com/).

The aim of POVCOMP 2004 is to show the full potential of POV-Ray. Artists and programmers worldwide are invited to participate and create groundbreaking images with POV-Ray to compete for one of 25 prizes (http://www.povcomp.com/prizes/) with a total retail value in excess of $14,000.

First prize is a 64-bit SMP workstation from Appro International equipped with dual Opteron 250 CPU's, eight gigabytes of registered ECC DDR RAM, one terabyte of disk, an NVIDIA Quadro FX professional video card, one 19" and one 17" flat-panel monitor, Red Hat Enterprise Linux v3, a Logitech cordless keyboard/mouse and a DVD/RW combo, and includes international shipping if need be.

Second prize is a $2,500 zazzle.com shopping spree, third is a $1,000 zazzle shopping spree, and 4th through 25th are zazzle posters.

More details can be found at the competition website www.povcomp.com (http://www.povcomp.com/). Entries close on 15 October and the winners will be announced during SC2004 in November. "

>>LINK<< (http://www.povcomp.com/press/)
-R
CLONEOPS
08-20-2004, 06:44 AM
thanks rob ...had to read it 4 times...8 gigs of ram...blink!blink!
1 terabyte of hardrive...blink! ..and almost faint..
....almost enough .hehe

so those who dont't know povray and wanna enter hahahahahahaha!
it can be a long learning curve...long....especially for customization of the complex ,more mathematical forms components....for a total newbie type anyway.

Povray 10+ years old....and still free as a bird.
Clanger
08-20-2004, 09:02 AM
10 years old? I though I was going mad as a was sure I'd used it longer ago than 10 years. The comps about 10 years since registering the 'povray.org' domain name so I'm not going senile just yet.
Anyone know how old the program is?

I've very happy memory's typing in scenes with fingers crossed I got the coordinates right.
Aardbei
08-20-2004, 12:05 PM
10 years old? I though I was going mad as a was sure I'd used it longer ago than 10 years. The comps about 10 years since registering the 'povray.org' domain name so I'm not going senile just yet.
Anyone know how old the program is?
Well, at least it's older than 10 years.

According to this link (http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/7/), the POV-Ray project started in May 1991 (based on DKBTrace, which was created sometime around '87 or '88).
Clanger
08-20-2004, 01:08 PM
Ah, DKBTrace I'd forgotten about that, I did have a little play with it mostly rendering and slightly altering supplied scenes and watching it develop 1 line an hour at 640x480 on I think I had a 386 Wang Computer at the time or maybe an original IBM PC can't quite remember when a changed computers back then.
kid tripod
08-20-2004, 05:12 PM
Ah DKBTrace! Those were the days.

The one I used before that was the ironically named QRT (quick ray tracer). I was astonished when my computron finally rendered that scene of three balls stacked on top of each other in front of a mirror.
CLONEOPS
08-20-2004, 09:11 PM
my mistake...of course it is....older than ten years since ..its first incarnation.
..povray.org is 10 yrs.old.... moments of time just keeps tickin away...gah!
..dan farmer still around anyone know?
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"POVRAY.ORG's 10th anniversary
It was ten years ago today - on 18 August 1994 - that the POVRAY.ORG domain was registered...."
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