POVRay Short Code Contest Results In

PateraSilk writes "The Results for the POVRay Short Code Contest are available here. This contest looks for the best images to be generated in POVRay with the smallest amount of code--in this case, under 256 bytes. Definitely 'less is more'."

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[slothdog]

The challenge was to create a POVRay file smaller than 256 bytes. And the results are amazing. Fantastic work.

I remember leaving my 386 on all night rendering stuff that looked much worse than these....

Wow, a sphere

[Cecil]

I considered "Simple" to be only mildly more interesting than the red square that came in last. How the hell did it win first (and third) place?

Kind of disappointing, although when I read the conditions for each place, I realized that the 'real favourite' would end up being second -- and I was right. Agate Face is amazing for its size.

Re: Wow, a sphere

[Thornae]

Well, "Simple" is aesthetically pleasing and has a sense of photo-realism, using only 50 bytes more than the red square. As far as use of POV goes, I liked it better than many of the others.

Nonetheless, I agree that "Agate Face" is the best image. So did the judges, by their comments.

Neat contest, anyway. I'll be having fun looking through some of those code fragments for ideas...

Re:Less vs. More

[lawpoop]

Have you ever seen a photograph this well lit? The way you can tell that it's not a photograph is that it's way too perfect. Everything is shiny. Also notice that there are no lit translucent objects -- I've heard that we don't have the math for this yet.

Not sure about the math, but that's one of the reason that human skin looks so lifeless in CG. Skin is translucent (that's why your hand glows red when you hold a flashlight up to it). Currently CG skin is only a surface -- it doesn't show light reflecting from within the skin.