The submission period for the January-April 1999 round of the Internet Ray Tracing Animation Competition is over. The images are now available for viewing, voting, and comment at WWW: http://www.irtc.org/anims/ http://archive.irtc.org/ftp/pub/anims/1999-04-15/ http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/bill/1999-04-15/ http://www.ucf.ics.uci.edu/pub/mirrors/irtc/anims/1999-04-15/ FTP: ftp://ftp.irtc.org/pub/anims/1999-04-15/ ftp://archive.irtc.org/pub/anims/1999-04-15/ ftp://ftp.ucf.ics.uci.edu/pub/mirrors/irtc/anims/1999-04-15/ 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 access for older rounds is now available through archive.irtc.org. There were 22 entries accepted for voting. If you prefer to download large bundles, they are available in the directory named "zipped-up", under the name "animations-*.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 17 April through 1 May 1999. Winners will be announced 2 May 1999. The April-July animation round of the IRTC is now open. The topic for this round is "Creatures". You may begin submitting for this round immediately; entries will be accepted through 15 July 1999. -- The IRTC Admin team