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

      WWW:  http://www.irtc.org/stills/
            http://archive.irtc.org/stills/
            http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/bill/1998-08-31/
            http://www.ucf.ics.uci.edu/pub/mirrors/irtc/stills/1998-08-31/

      FTP:  ftp://ftp.irtc.org/pub/stills/1998-08-31/
            ftp://archive.irtc.org/pub/stills/1998-08-31/
            ftp://ftp.ucf.ics.uci.edu/pub/mirrors/irtc/stills/1998-08-31/

Note the mirror sites listed above.  The extra WWW URLs listed above are only
for file access; web viewing and voting still starts on www.irtc.org as
always.  Ftp access for older rounds is now available through
archive.irtc.org.

For the MS-Windows users among the voters, check out Bob Franke's WinVote
voting assistance program.  Details and downloads are available at his site,
"http://www.halcyon.com/wordsltd/pov/test.htm".  The files it needs are in a
subdirectory called "winvote" in the main ftp area.
        
There were 109 entries accepted for voting.  If you prefer to download large
bundles, they are available in the directory named "zipped-up", under the name
"images-*.zip" for the images, and "all-text.zip" for the text.

This round's voting interval is 14 days; votes will be accepted from September
1 through September 14.  Winners will be announced September 15.

The round of the IRTC is now open.  The topic for this round is "Water".  You
may begin submitting for this round immediately; entries will be accepted
through October 31.

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The IRTC Admin team