POVRay Short Code Contest, Round 3

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/."

Comments

fooey

[Sparr0]

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:fooey

[yotaku]

One think I used to enjoy taking part in is TopCoder. They hold small online coding competitions that only take about an hour and a half to take part in - and are quite a lot of fun. Plus they are held about once a week. So you dont have to worry about missing one because there will always be another one just around the corner.

http://www.topcoder.com

Re:Red rectangle?

[Cecil]

The author of cpo is aiming very squarely (excuse the pun) at third place. Check out this post for more information. Given the undoubtedly tiny number of bytes, if he even gets a few votes I think he's almost guaranteed a third place finish.

Kind of an interesting approach at subverting the calculations for third place, but a bit against the spirit of things, so it won't get my vote.