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To bad this is defunct: http://www.irtc.org/stills/ http://www.irtc.org/stills/ POV ray and IRTC got me into 3D. Once upon a time I thought I was going to hav

by Rapzid 11y ago

To bad this is defunct: http://www.irtc.org/stills/ http://www.irtc.org/stills/ POV ray and IRTC got me into 3D. Once upon a time I thought I was going to have a career in it. Became absolutely obsessed; Modo beta tester, SIGGRAPH trip in '07. Now I'm a systems engineer, go figure. Ah the memories though :)

IanCal 11y ago
Wow, that brings back memories. I came 79th once in one of those! I've just gone and found it and I was 14 at the time. 3D art was going to be my thing too, then I got into programming. It was actually through programming python scripts in Blender that I became interested in programming generally. I'm digging back through old forum posts to see if anything I've made is still about but so many image hosting sites have disappeared. I'm not sure what it looked like but one comment about a head I'd modelled was "personal opinion, but I think he'd look better with eyelids". Thanks for jogging those memories! :)
- usrusr 11y ago
  Pretty much the same here. I even got two top-20 results, but I was a few years older at the time. POV-Ray scene description language was how I made the jump from Pascal and visual basic "begin end" syntax styles to the world of curlies. And after having spent so much time with the imitation, learning the C preprocessor was so much easier.
  - IanCal 11y ago
    Nice work! I think visual outputs are an excellent way of seeing what's going on in code, and semantic errors are often very enjoyable. The other major thing that I learned through was about the open source community in general. The amount of intense work that people put out for free is incredible. So many people producing things and sharing and generally helping out. That then encouraged me to help work on code but also things like help critique work, answer questions, etc.
sp332 11y ago
I guess this would be the new version of that: https://home.otoy.com/render-the-metaverse-month-3-grand-prize/ https://home.otoy.com/render-the-metaverse-month-3-grand-pri... And this is the older-school-than-thou version, which is still going: http://www.ifcomp.org/ http://www.ifcomp.org/
wtracy 11y ago
This successor is still going strong: http://www.tc-rtc.co.uk/ http://www.tc-rtc.co.uk/

by Rapzid 11y ago

IanCal 11y ago

Wow, that brings back memories. I came 79th once in one of those! I've just gone and found it and I was 14 at the time. 3D art was going to be my thing too, then I got into programming. It was actually through programming python scripts in Blender that I became interested in programming generally. I'm digging back through old forum posts to see if anything I've made is still about but so many image hosting sites have disappeared. I'm not sure what it looked like but one comment about a head I'd modelled was "personal opinion, but I think he'd look better with eyelids". Thanks for jogging those memories! :)

usrusr 11y ago
Pretty much the same here. I even got two top-20 results, but I was a few years older at the time. POV-Ray scene description language was how I made the jump from Pascal and visual basic "begin end" syntax styles to the world of curlies. And after having spent so much time with the imitation, learning the C preprocessor was so much easier.
- IanCal 11y ago
  Nice work! I think visual outputs are an excellent way of seeing what's going on in code, and semantic errors are often very enjoyable. The other major thing that I learned through was about the open source community in general. The amount of intense work that people put out for free is incredible. So many people producing things and sharing and generally helping out. That then encouraged me to help work on code but also things like help critique work, answer questions, etc.

sp332 11y ago

I guess this would be the new version of that: https://home.otoy.com/render-the-metaverse-month-3-grand-prize/ https://home.otoy.com/render-the-metaverse-month-3-grand-pri... And this is the older-school-than-thou version, which is still going: http://www.ifcomp.org/ http://www.ifcomp.org/

wtracy 11y ago

This successor is still going strong: http://www.tc-rtc.co.uk/ http://www.tc-rtc.co.uk/