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

   First place:   Revenge of the Blob (blob.mpg) by Richard Webster
   Second place:  Thinning the Herd (rusty020.mpg) by John VanSickle
   Third place:   Butterfly (butterfl.mpg) by Matti Raitoharju, Fredrik Jansson, Jenni Pulkkinen

And our Honorable Mentions for this round are:

   Artistic Merit:   Evolution (evol_rs.mpg) by Rio
   Technical Merit:  Astroid Life (astrlife.mpg) by Erik Shelley
   Concept/Theme:    Evolution of a Ray-Tracer (evraytrc.mpg) by Michael Ian Hartley

The complete tabulated results of the public vote are available:

   ftp://ftp.irtc.org/pub/anims/2003-07-15/zipped-up/results.txt
   http://www.irtc.org/anims/2003-07-15.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