The submission period for the July-August 1999 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://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/bill/1999-08-31/ http://www.ucf.ics.uci.edu/pub/mirrors/irtc/stills/1999-08-31/ FTP: ftp://ftp.irtc.org/pub/stills/1999-08-31/ ftp://ftp.ucf.ics.uci.edu/pub/mirrors/irtc/stills/1999-08-31/ 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. 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 87 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 1 September through 14 September 1999. Winners will be announced 15 September 1999. The September-October round of the IRTC is now open. The topic for this round, as announced last year, is "Horror". You may begin submitting for this round immediately; entries will be accepted through 31 October 1999. -- The IRTC Admin team