All the votes are in for the November-December 1998 round of the Internet Ray
Tracing Competition, and the winners are:

   First place:   First Strike at Pearl (strike.jpg) by N.B. (beliaev@utu.fi)
                                   and Glenn McCarter (gmccarter@hotmail.com)
   Second place:  Midnight on the Farm or Arkansas Chickens VS. EBE's
                            (ac_vs_eb.jpg) by H. E. Day (Howard Earl)
   Third place:   a frog (afrog.jpg) by OLLIVIER DE LANGLAIS

And our Honorable Mentions for this round are:

   Artistic Merit:   Forgivness (8_forgiv.jpg) by Tim Stratton
   Technical Merit:  Curiosity (13kitty.jpg) by Nathan O'Brien
   Concept/Theme:    How wax I without you... (fmenc.jpg) by Fabien MOSEN

The complete tabulated results of the public vote are available:

   ftp://ftp.irtc.org/pub/stills/1998-12-31/results.txt
   http://www.irtc.org/stills/1998-12-31.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