The submission period for the April-July 1998 round of the Internet Ray
Tracing Animation Competition is over.  The animations are now available for
viewing, voting, and comment at


      WWW:  http://www.irtc.org/anims/
            http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/bill/1998-07-15/
            http://www.ucf.ics.uci.edu/pub/mirrors/irtc/anims/1998-07-15/

      FTP:  ftp://archive.irtc.org/pub/anims/1998-07-15/
            ftp://ftp.apocalypse.org/pub/u/bill/1998-07-15/
            ftp://ftp.ucf.ics.uci.edu/pub/mirrors/irtc/anims/1998-07-15/

Note the mirror sites listed above.  We invite you to use a mirror site for
ftp access.  The extra WWW URLs listed above are only for file access; web
viewing and voting still starts on www.irtc.org as always.

There were 16 entries accepted for voting.  If you prefer to download large
bundles, they are available in the directory named "zipped-up", under the name
"anims-*.zip" for the animations, "all-posters.zip" for the movie posters, and
"all-text.zip" for the text.

This round's voting interval is thirty days; votes will be accepted from
July 16 through August 15.  Winners will be announced August 16.

The July-October 1998 round of the IRTC animation competition is now open.
The topic for this round is "Games".  You may begin submitting for this round
immediately; entries will be accepted through 15 October 1998.