POVRay Short Code Contest, Round 3

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 2, 2004 @12:18PM from the unbelievable dept.

An anonymous reader submits "The aim of the POVRay Short Code Contest SCC3 is to create an artistic work using POVRay (a free raytracing program) using only a limited number of bytes. The last round had an upper limit of 500 bytes and this round increased the challenge by reducing the maximum number of bytes to 256 (about 2 average length English sentences). This round saw some exceptional entries, an example of extreme image compression since these images can be created at any arbitrary resolution! The competition is now closed to entries and voting, which is open to the public, has started. The 51 entries can be viewed here. POVRay can be downloaded free from povray.org/."

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fooey by Sparr0 · 2004-03-02 12:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

This is the kind of thing I hope to see posted on /. BEFORE the entry deadline. And preferably a sane time before, not 1 day like that PHP Blackjack thing. I would have very much enjoyed participating in this event.
Re:Interesting by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-02 18:16 · Score: 2, Insightful

Apples and oranges, my friend. This contest features entries from some of the best POV-Ray artists in the world, vs. some random students in your school.

Speaking as an engineer who dropped out of art school many years ago, for any decent art program, it's a *lot* easier to get in than it is to graduate. Sure, the attrition rates were high in EE, but they were nothing to the tiny number of students the department allowed to stay.