POV-Ray Short Code Animation Winners

Paul Bourke writes "Every year the POVRay rendering community run a short code competition. The challenge is create an image using a limited number of bytes, normally just 256. This year the competition required the artist to create an animation rather than just an image. The winning entries are now online where you can see what can be created for a meager 512 bytes."

Comments

I wonder

[g0bshiTe]

Seeing these submissions for their artistic value, and knowing they were produced entirely from code, I wonder if there is any correlation between artistry and programming.
I know that programming is very creative in the first place, but some of these submissions go beyond, especially when you take into account they are less than a k.

Re:I wonder

[Grard Menfin]

It's been traditional for POV-Ray users to create images entirely by code. That was the case for instance of this image that won the POVCOMP competition in 2004: most objects, including very complex ones, were made using isosurfaces, that are basically function-based objects. Scenes like this one and this one were also written in POV-Ray code, and the source is available.