All the votes are in for the October-January 2005 round of the Internet Ray
Tracing Animation Competition, and the winners are:

   First place:   Summer, Palms, Sunshine (bwquackl.mpg) by Benjamin Winter
   Second place:  A Bold Adventure (rusty025.mpg) by John VanSickle
   Third place:   RTDR-1 (rtdr1.mpg) by John D. Gwinner

And our Honorable Mentions for this round are:

   Artistic Merit:   Travel (travl_lb.mpg) (travl_lb.mpg) by Lou Bruce
   Technical Merit:  The Wrath of Cueball! (deux.mpg) by Matt Giwer
   Concept/Theme:    Frontiers (frntiers.mpg) by Caleb Hines

The complete tabulated results of the public vote are available:

   ftp://ftp.irtc.org/pub/anims/2005-01-15/zipped-up/results.txt
   http://www.irtc.org/anims/2005-01-15.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