The submission period for the January-April 2001 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/
      FTP:  ftp://ftp.irtc.org/pub/anims/2001-04-15/

There were 14 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 16 April
through 30 April 2001.  Winners will be announced 1 May 2001.

The April-July animation round of the IRTC is now open.  The topic for this
round is "Transformation".  You may begin submitting for this round
immediately; entries will be accepted through 15 July 2001.

Also, it is with sadness that we pass along the news of Ethel Mackay's death.
Ethel was very active in the IRTC.  She created the "Who are we?" web site for
the IRTC discussion list, contributed to many of the discussions on IRTC-L,
helped beta test WinVote, and faithfully made sure all of her husband Ian's
images made it in on time.  Here's a list of all the images the team of Ethel
and Ian Mackay submitted to the IRTC over the years:

http://irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1997-10-31/im_art01.jpg
http://irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1997-12-31/im_art03.jpg
http://irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1998-02-28/hale.jpg
http://irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1998-04-30/sumrnite.jpg
http://irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1998-06-30/toucan.jpg
http://irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1998-08-31/bushfire.jpg
http://irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1998-10-31/bore.jpg
http://irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1998-10-31/impond.jpg
http://irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1998-12-31/landing.jpg
http://irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1999-02-28/buck25.jpg
http://irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1999-02-28/terminal.jpg
http://irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1999-04-30/bleriot.jpg
http://irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1999-06-30/fprints.jpg
http://irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1999-12-31/formal.jpg

We'll miss you Ethel.  May you rest in peace.

-- 
The IRTC Admin team