All the votes are in for the October-January 2003 round of the Internet Ray
Tracing Animation Competition, and the winners are:

   First place:   Anthrosphinx Alien Speed Freak (maal_asf.mpg) by Markus Altendorff
   Second place:  Wind farms (speed1.mpg) by Pascal Olice
   Third place:   A Snowball's Chance (bobsled.mpg) by Glenn McCarter

And our Honorable Mentions for this round are:

   Artistic Merit:   top speed - no risk (topspeed.mpg) by Dirk Dittmann
   Technical Merit:  Not Just a Good Idea (njagi.mpg) by John VanSickle
   Concept/Theme:    Speed (speed.mpg) by Richard Webster

The complete tabulated results of the public vote are available:

   ftp://ftp.irtc.org/pub/anims/2003-01-15/zipped-up/results.txt
   http://www.irtc.org/anims/2003-01-15.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