The submission period for the October-January 2002 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/2002-01-15/ 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 16 January through 30 January 2002. Winners will be announced 31 January 2002. The January-April animation round of the IRTC is now open. The topic for this round is "Unnecessarily Complicated Devices". You may begin submitting for this round immediately; entries will be accepted through 15 April 2002. -- The IRTC Admin team