All the votes are in for the October-January 1998 round of the Internet Ray
Tracing Animation Competition, and the winners are:
 
   First place:   Snail Paced (schnecky.mpg) by Steve Schaneville
   Second place:  Four Seasons (4seasons.mpg) by Martin Magnusson
   Third place:   Senior Software Engineer (snake.mpg) by John Aughey
 
And our Honorable Mentions for this round are:
 
   Artistic Merit:   Life (bb_life.mpg) by Byron Bashforth
   Technical Merit:  Monarch (monarch.mpg) by Mike Hough
   Concept/Theme:    Anthill at Unseen University (anthill.mpg) by Stig M. Valstad
 
The complete tabulated results of the public vote are available:
 
   ftp://ftp.irtc.org/pub/anims/1998-01-15/results.txt
   http://www.irtc.org/anims/1998-01-15.html
 
Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone who participated in the
competition.  Please join us for the current round!
 
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The IRTC Admin Team