The submission period for the July-August 2005 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/2005-08-31/ 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 96 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 13 September through 26 September 2005. Winners will be announced 27 September 2005. The September-October round of the IRTC is now open. The topic for this round is "Opposites". You may begin submitting for this round immediately; entries will be accepted through 31 October 2005. -- The IRTC Admin team