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POV-Ray Competition Winners

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the trip-down-memory-lane dept.

An anonymous reader noted that you can "See how far POV-Ray developers have pushed the limits of raytracing in the POVCOMP 2004 Raytracing Contest." Yes it's from 2004. It's still neat. And you try finding something interesting on a holiday monday ;)

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  1. Quicklink Top-25 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    1. 'The Last Guardian' by Johnny Yip 2. 'The Kitchen' by Jaime Vives Piqueres
    3. 'Dissolution' by Ziga Petric
    4. 'Victoria's World' by Douglas Eichenberg and 'Twin Girls With A Pearl Earring' by Rene Bui
    6. 'Pirates' by 'seawolf'
    7. 'Bradbury Atrium' by Gary MacKinnon
    8. 'Model Expo Entry' by Chris Holtorf
    9. 'Waiting for the relief' by Marc Jacquier
    10. 'Sentinel Rock' by Glenn McCarter
    11. 'Song For The Earth' by Fabien Mosen
    12. 'Natural History Museum' by Sean Day
    13. 'Cybernetic Organism Caealis - Narcissism' by 'selsek'
    14. 'The Three Blind Mice Return' by Jeremy M. Praay
    15. 'Autumn' by 'Slime'
    16. 'The buzzard and the dove' by 'emkaah'
    17. 'Evie Evolves' by Joanne Simpson
    18. 'Early morning tea' by 'St Dunstan'
    19. 'Christmas Eve' by Gennady Obukhov
    20. 'The Peek-a-Blocks' by 'danBhentschel'
    21. 'After the Storm' by Christoph Gerber
    22. 'Montezumas last meal No.2' by 'splendor'
    23. 'Pathways' by Robert W. McGregor
    24. 'Japanese spire!' by 'miyoken'
    25. '13 Spiral Spheres' by Robert W. McGregor

  2. Re:The thin line between reality and digital reali by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are talking about pr0n right?

  3. Re:The thin line between reality and digital reali by AgNO3 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You must be kidding that those look real. Those renders look like they are more like 5+ years old. Have a look at what a modern rendering looks like here. http://www.highend3d.com/artists/

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  4. Re:Holiday monday? by coopaq · · Score: 5, Funny
    And you try finding something interesting on a holiday monday ;)

    Try looking outside the US. it's not a holiday here.

    I think taco is just saying it's hard to find news on a holiday Monday because he is really sunburned and drunk.

  5. Re:It's all too clean by brianmf · · Score: 5, Funny

    The light is the only unusual thing you noticed about the first entry?

    I'd say the big dinosaur is a further tip-off that is is not real!