The submission period for the July-October 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://archive.irtc.org/anims/
            http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/bill/1998-10-15/
            http://www.ucf.ics.uci.edu/pub/mirrors/irtc/anims/1998-10-15/

      FTP:  ftp://ftp.irtc.org/pub/anims/1998-10-15/
            ftp://archive.irtc.org/pub/anims/1998-10-15/
            ftp://ftp.ucf.ics.uci.edu/pub/mirrors/irtc/anims/1998-10-15/

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 and web access for older rounds is available through
archive.irtc.org.
        
There were 13 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 14 days; votes will be accepted from October
16 through October 29.  Winners will be announced October 30.  NOTE: this is
*two weeks*, not a month as in past animation rounds.  See the note below.

The October 1998-January 1999 animation round of the IRTC is now open.  The
topic for this round is "Microcosms".  You may begin submitting for this round
immediately; entries will be accepted through January 15, 1999.

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Two changes have been made to the IRTC animation rules:

1. The file size limit for MPEG animation files has been raised to five
megabytes (5mb, or 5242880 bytes).

2. The voting period has been reduced from one month to two weeks.  Just as
with the stills, if a large number of entries is received in a given round,
the voting interval may be increased for that round.

Both changes are effective immediately and until further notice.  We hope this
will increase interest and participation in the animation competition.

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The IRTC Admin team