The submission period for the September-October 1997 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/
            http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/bill/1997-10-31/
            http://www.ucf.ics.uci.edu/pub/mirrors/irtc/stills/1997-10-31/

      FTP:  ftp://s971031.irtc.org/pub/stills/1997-10-31/
            ftp://lorax.ml.org/pub/irtc/1997-10-31/
            ftp://ftp.apocalypse.org/pub/u/bill/1997-10-31/
            ftp://keg.ucf.ics.uci.edu/pub/mirrors/irtc/stills/1997-10-31/

NOTE THE MIRROR SITES LISTED ABOVE!  We ask that you PLEASE use a mirror site
for ftp access.  The extra WWW URLs listed above are only for file access; web
viewing and voting still starts on www.irtc.org as always.

There were 87 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 fourteen days; votes will be accepted from
November 1 through November 14.  Winners will be announced November 15.

The November-December 1997 round of the IRTC is now open.  The topic for this
round is "Childhood".  You may begin submitting for this round immediately;
entries will be accepted through 31 December 1997.