LET THE GAMES BEGIN! (one month later than usual) Fractalforums.com
10th Annual Fractal Art Competition 2017
Fractalforums.com is holding the "Annual Fractal Art Contest" for the 10th time in row in the year of 2017. It will be the last one in its current form, it is already a month delayed and shall celebrate what happened in the forums in the past 10 years
Christian can not continue administering this forum as it happened in the last decade, nevertheless he urges you to contribute to the competition to have something to remember. We are at the very height and at the beginning of a new era, mainstream film makers now use fractals in their productions e.g. Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Dr. Strange both where filmed with users from this forum. Christian is continuing loving fractals but needs to take care for creating something bigger to the end of his live - worldwide fractal museums - to achieve this he simply has no longer any time to administer the forum, the team has already taken action for filling a follow up forum, although it is not clear when a switch will happen, but it will. Christian spend in average at least one hour in the forums keeping it up and running and now loves to see what other thought about it so join the competition ... if the forum isnt already dead - i did not even check if something happens here, if i am writing this into the void my fault.
Prizes are, as every year, but this time for all the first three ranks, winning images printed on coffee cups the first ones will be the biggest.
Statement regarding voting system:
everything stays as it was in the year before, the total sum of gained
stars in the voting process are the one and only thing relevant for the final outcome. We are aware that the process
is not perfect.
The most important link for the compo comes first, the gallery is where everything takes place, uploading
and voting. This is the link to the gallery section:
http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;cat=121Official Sponsor for this years contest is:
Frontend Solutions GmbHTime Schedule- Submission Period begins on 1st of June at 00:00 Central European Time
- Submission Period ends on 30st of June at 23:59:59 Central European Time
- Voting Period begins on 1st of July at 00:00:00 Central European Time
- Voting Period ends on 31st of July at 23:59:59 Central European Time
Rules:*new, not obligatory*Please sign your work, by placing the text "fractalforums.com Annual Fractal Art Contest 2017" inside your production
you state crystal clear that you have produced it especially for the contest, and future viewers of the product will have
a straight time location from when the product was produced. This was originally meant to be obligatory from the administrator
but has been rejected by the admin people who thought that it would restrict artistic liberty too much, so make the admin happy and include it!
As every year, a contributor may enter up to 3 entries in
each section of the competition,
so every contributor may enter up to 9 total competition entries.
The Competition is (as always) split up into 3 sections, which are this year "Film Postcard","Still Frame Postcard" and
as varying section we have this year the "Still Frame Wildstyle" section.
It is desirable to publish "new" stuff in the contest, do not bore us with already known stuff. Anything
already competing in another contest, or somehow already known to a wider public is unwanted. The
administration team for the contest is not strictly excluding anything from the contest
so it is up to you to either bore us to death or come up with inspiring new work. It would be to hard
to verify every entry by hand, so nothing will be disqualified, but keep in mind that something already
known wont get too much votes ...The whole voting and submission is done in the gallery. This year video submission are submitted
by using the "Enter Video" feature of the current gallery, most of popular video hosting sites are included.
RemarksRemark about the voting System The winner is determined by the total sum of stars. Which means that a single 5 star vote can not outnumber
for example an entry with two 3 star ratings. Although there was an effort to introduce a new voting counting
system, it will stay this way for this year - and presumably until 10th anniversary of the contest.
Remark about Time ScheduleTime scheduling caused confusion, due to contestants spread over the whole world, each of the schedules is
a "soft" schedule, especially the entry time. If you come up with your entry half a day late ( but no more than a day),
it is perfectly fine. Consider that entries which are longer in the view of reviewers have a better impact, and that
later entered entries might get overlooked.
Remark about Voting System IDuring the time of the submission period and the voting period the display of view counts and current voting is
globally disabled in the gallery.
Remark about Voting System IIEach section will feature 2 winners, one by the most total counts, and one by the best average count. The places 2 and 3 are obtained the same way, so 6 possible winners for each section
Remark about Gallery File Sizes and Dimension The hosting package for the website is now at maximum, the allowed image sizes have been incread immensely,
now 5000x5000 pixels and a file size of 25 megabytes is now enabled for uploads
The Competition is split up into 3 sections:
Competition SectionsStill Frame Postcard (that has actually been send!)This competition is meant to collect the best that happened in the forums in the last decade, anything that comes to your mind, and that you personally associate with the forums may be visualised. Make it look like an actual postcard ready to be send out, perhaps even including a backface with some greetings. Make a picture of the mandelbulb, make a picture of yourself browsing the gallery when competition time, as always: be creative!
Still Frame Wildstyle Gallery section
http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;cat=122Film PostcardIf one image is not enough use this section to celebrate anything that comes to your mind regarding last decade and fractalforums in special. Again enter the state of mind of how you would make a remembrance of the events that happened in the forums, to name a few: the moderator struggling for help and the forums takes care for everything, paying server bills ( the largest payment came from india !!! ) to keep the forums alive... the history of the competition with just 10 people or so participating in the beginning ... fractalforums calendar attempts with now having people participating in the calendar now participating in actual hollywood movies (guardians of the galaxy, dr. strange) ... the mentioning of the discovery of the mandelbulb in many many scientific magazines and even popular magazines mentioned it back then ... the even more exciting finding of the mandelbox by tglad (which is what is actually used in guardians of the galaxy and dr. strange) ... even more hollywood movies like bighero6 featuring the mandelbulb ... a fractal forums user meeting in san sebastian ... invitation of christian by university of mexico to talk about 3d fractals ... and so on ...
Gallery section
http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;cat=123Still Frame WildStill Frame Wildstyle Gallery Section:
http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;cat=124