POV-Ray 10th Anniversary Contest 216
erich666 writes "You could win a great computer by making a cool image. POV-Ray is a free multiplatform ray-tracing renderer with source available. To celebrate POV-Ray's tenth anniversary some hobbyists are having a contest, and they convinced a few sponsors to donate some nice goodies. Me, I'm a no-talent slug, but still found their site's hall of fame worth visiting."
That's backwards (Score:4, Funny)
Got my entry sorted! (Score:5, Funny)
Dangerous (Score:3, Funny)
And the artists responsible for that hall of fame should be shot for being better than me.
Re:Got my entry sorted! (Score:4, Funny)
Make sure to use chrome and marble textures!
Re:For one frame, cool (Score:5, Funny)
For one frame, cool-Eclipse. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:That's backwards (Score:5, Funny)
Cry me a river. When I first started using POV-Ray, I had a 486 w/4MB of RAM and a puny 200 meg hard drive! The program came on three 5.12" disks, and I had no TARGA Viewer to see the output! I had to put up with grainy previews just to see what the heck I was rendering!
Bah, kids these days. 16 million colors, Three-Dee graphics cards, hundreds of megabytes of RAM, not to mention math COPROCESSORS! And you think you NEED a faster machine?! You're all a bunch of whiners, that's what you are!
1,2,3 (Score:4, Funny)
2. ENTER CONTEST and beat the other guy who knows POVRAY
3. PROFIT!!
That's backwards-Count down (Score:1, Funny)
what's that sign? (Score:1, Funny)
You are not allowed to smoke and,,,,,
talk into a microphone?
eat ice cones?
play darts?
apart from that it's damn fine work.
In the world of raytracing, I have never got past the place a cone and a metal sphere on a checkerboard myself.
Re:That's backwards (Score:4, Funny)
Now that's hardship - shipping you software on disks that don't properly slot into a 5.25" drive!
Amazing (Score:2, Funny)
It does look a lot like CSS or perhaps SVG would be more accurate.
Re:Forget the contest - Do LEGO in POV (Score:3, Funny)
Slug, you say? (Score:2, Funny)
Damn! I was going to do a slug. You took my creative idea. Somebody already beat me to a slashdotted sky-server [povcomp.com] also. Great job they did on that fiber-optic cable coming out of the front.
Re:That's backwards (Score:5, Funny)
Hah! I can one up you on that one, Mr. AC. When I was five, things were so bad that we had to give computer commands to a TURTLE just to get an image drawn!
(for those who don't get it [ecu.edu.au])
Geeky pr0n! (Score:3, Funny)
And even better, if the source for the picture is available, you can even modify the picture so she looks like you want her to. Geek heaven! Finally a girl we can all understand!
Re:That's backwards-Count down (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Where's the cross-project support? (Score:3, Funny)
At one stage I had half the planet illuminated and the other half in complete blackness.
Sounds about right to me!