The submission period for the November-December 2003 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/ FTP: ftp://ftp.irtc.org/pub/stills/2003-12-31/ 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.geocities.com/bob_franke/pov/winvote.htm". The files it needs are in a subdirectory called "winvote" in the main ftp area. There were 73 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 5 January through 19 January 2004. Winners will be announced 20 January 2004. The January-February round of the IRTC is now open. The topic for this round is "Mythology". You may begin submitting for this round immediately; entries will be accepted through 29 February 2004. -- The IRTC Admin team