Title: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: cKleinhuis on July 01, 2013, 07:04:37 AM Congratulation to all Participants, it was an exciting event this year,
and the total votes sum up to 3936, with 187 total images this comes down to an average voting count for each entry of 20 total votes!!! here are the first 10 of each section, and the WINNERS ARE: FILM - the 3 best placed are so close to eachother, and eiffie made it with just 1 point ahead - CONGRATULATIONS EIFFIE! STILL FRAME - arias "primal land" excited most of the voters with a total of 37 votes it made a comfortable first place - CONGRATULATIONS ARIAS! AXOLOTL - and kali with his both extraordinary entries made it to the first 2 places, far ahead the 3rd place, but his first entry as well made it to the first place - CONGRATULATIONS KALI! FILM
STILL FRAME
AXOLOTL
Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: taurus on July 01, 2013, 11:28:08 AM so I'm the first to congratulate all the participants for the great entries and especially effie, arias and Kaliyuga (aka Kali) for their great work. :toast:
I think we see the deserved winners! Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: Sockratease on July 01, 2013, 11:41:07 AM Well done, Everybody! (except me - couldn't finish anything I set out to do for this year's competition!) (maybe next time...)
Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: KRAFTWERK on July 01, 2013, 01:07:56 PM Congratulations to the very worthy winners! :toast:
Welcome to the Mug-Club! O0 :beer: Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: LhoghoNurbs on July 01, 2013, 01:35:31 PM Confractulations to the winners and to all participants!
It was my privilege to enjoy your work. Special thanks to the team behind the scene for organizing this inspiring contest. Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: Sitting Duck on July 01, 2013, 03:45:16 PM Congratulations to all the winners and particulary arias who made some awesome artworks! :worm:
I also would like to thank those who voted on my images :) Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: Fitz on July 01, 2013, 07:15:16 PM Coming in 12th place in the Still Frame section has been the happiest moment of my life. I can't even imagine how Arias feels right now after winning both first and third place, hopefully he's able to survive the sudden rush of joy.
Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: Tim Emit on July 01, 2013, 07:37:26 PM :) congrats the winners and to all participants, a fun compo with a great diversity of entries .....roll on 2014 :beer:
Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: vinz on July 01, 2013, 08:41:33 PM Congrats everybody ! and obviously winners :D
edit: i had very bad results , i want my revenge ;D when is the next Contest .... O0 Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: cKleinhuis on July 01, 2013, 09:09:55 PM congrats from me again, but as well to the huge amount of votes, it was a nearly doubled amount of interaction, which makes me very happy! so, thank you ALL for participating, without you it would not have been such fun again!
and no need to point out the huge diversity and the very relaxing releases, due to the huge amount of entries it is a whole day you can spend just with reviewing the stuff! Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: Kali on July 01, 2013, 10:25:09 PM I win!!!! :spgloomy:
Many many thanks to the voters, and special thanks to Chris, the one who makes this contest possible every year :thanks1: Btw, I must say sorry to Chris for complaining at first about the lack of short animation section this year, because the axolotl turned to be a great and fun idea! (I know what are you all maybe thinking... "Yeah, now you say it because you won"... hehe ;D) But the truth is that I really changed my opinion when the submission period started, and as I didn't have too much free time at the moment to make many entries (not to mention a movie), I decided to focus only in this category. Well, congrats to all the winners and all the participants for their great entries, it was a really nice competition with lots of amazing works. And special congrats to arias for the superb winner still image, eiffie for that awesome movie (are you all aware that it was totally procedurally generated?) and to Johan for the 3rd place with his lovely axolotl :beer: Thanks again, I'm very very happy!! P.S.: @taurus, I'm only Kali! :) - but the forum's software seems to like the nick I used to register to the forum... "kaliyuga" (I was reading about Hinduism in that moment ;D) Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: cKleinhuis on July 01, 2013, 10:29:36 PM @kali i am afraid there is no second place mug or something, the whole budget of the contest prizes is just for the first place, even though we have a sponsor this year ( i might ask him for an extension ) if there is no one else interested in perhaps buying a mug, there will be - as every last 4 years - just 3 mugs for the winners, and 3 for me .... :D *lol* my whole kitchen cupboard is full of memorizable coffee cups from the contest, 18 cups i have now documenting nicely the contest developments, some are broken, but a nice collection anyways!
Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: cKleinhuis on July 01, 2013, 10:31:37 PM regarding the competition in general, there will be always still frame and movies, and i really beliefe i am going to stick with the long duration for the entries, because i just love those long videos ;) hehe, the third section is always open for something else, i am thinking about doing some kind of real-3d next year in that section, but i am unsure and have the whole year to think about it now, great pleasure!
Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: Kali on July 01, 2013, 10:39:31 PM Yeah, I don't know why I thought there were prizes for 2nd and 3rd... sorry :embarrass: - anyway, I think the 4th place should be taken as 3rd, and Johan's as 2nd, having only my most voted entry qualified to the contest in 1st place, as both of my images shares the same technical and artistic concept.
Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: cKleinhuis on July 01, 2013, 10:43:30 PM will change it ;)
Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: arias on July 01, 2013, 11:31:24 PM Hello everyone, thank you again for all those who voted for you my picture.
I hope to continue to have other vision when browsing randomly across the ocean formulas. And say that the school I was zero in mathematics ... who would have told me that I would use for artistic purposes ... Bernard Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: Kali on July 02, 2013, 05:05:37 AM Nice Chris, thanks!!! so congrats Kraftwerk and lambarie for 2nd and 3rd places!! :)
Maybe we could find more sponsors for the next year, to give additional prizes :dink: Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: cKleinhuis on July 02, 2013, 09:30:24 AM yes that would be nice, in fact this time was the first time the compo was sponsored by an official sponsor, up until now it was always supported by forums members, especially: GFWORLD, thank you btw!
Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: taurus on July 02, 2013, 10:29:44 AM Maybe we could find more sponsors for the next year, to give additional prizes :dink: I was allways wondering, why competitions like the bmfac or the annual competition are not sponsored by a computer related company. This would be the most natural and conclusive choice. I just saw the assembly summer '13 is sponsored by asus, rovio and many more. So why isn't the annual competition sponsored by say Nvidia and Adobe? :hmh: Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: vinz on July 02, 2013, 11:44:41 AM Prizes are not necessary. imo ! .... Finding money and sponsors for prizes is somewhat complicated.
personally, a prize is a plus, but certainly not the main motivation. Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: Sockratease on July 02, 2013, 12:01:45 PM Maybe we could approach the creators of Commercial Fractal Generators to offer their software as a prize?
While there are many free tools, many are not. Perhaps Frederick Unpronounceable could offer an UltraFractal License, or maybe the creators of things like Xenodream and Fractal Science Kit, Visions Of Chaos, or even Terry Gintz and all the other ones with Free Versions and paid versions could be persuaded. I'd understand if they did not want to do so, but there would be a certain amount of heightened exposure for their projects if they did, and we'd get some nice prizes to offer if they did! Plenty of time to start asking around if the idea is a good one O0 Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: element90 on July 02, 2013, 12:03:28 PM I note the fractal forums banner still says "Vote Now!".
Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: mclarekin on July 02, 2013, 12:10:00 PM Congratulations to all participants, it was a pleasure to spectate. ;D :) ;D. As a first time compo viewer, I was mightily impressed by it all.
Possible suggestion to ponder about is for an Avatar section in the future. i.e Taurus66's avatar is a pretty damn cool piece of fractal artistry. Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: cKleinhuis on July 02, 2013, 12:11:53 PM I note the fractal forums banner still says "Vote Now!". thank you for noting, i corrected it surely i would love to have a big sponsor, but never forget, we are such a tiny bunch of enthusiasts here, that barely get noted, although we do stuff here that effectively affects gpu producers as well, i personally have not done much to attract those, next big thing is to promote the calendar 2014 since i am very bad at asking people, and i am bad at commercial stuff in general, it is going to be a tough thing to heighten things to a new level ... but i am working on it .... :D Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: simon.snake on July 02, 2013, 03:43:29 PM Text on left still says "VOTE NOW!" and now no banner at all on 2 out of 3 windows I have open. On the third there is a banner but it still says "VOTE NOW!" in text on the right hand side.
Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: eiffie on July 02, 2013, 04:33:12 PM Thanks to everyone who voted and to Chris for holding another fun contest. I love your idea of a "real" fractal section next year - hopefully 3D printed or handcrafted. That would be awesome!
I feel a little bad for beating arias with a lower average score but since he won for still image - tough sh!t he'll get over it. :) So many creative entries it was an honor to participate! Like vinz said the prize isn't really important here but being a part of this community and its strange mix of artists and mathematicians is the real win! blah blah blah... Have I thanked enough of the "little people" yet? Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: Kali on July 02, 2013, 09:51:00 PM Off course the prizes are not that important, and I think nobody was in the competition just for a mug, but it's a nice little reminder of your achievement every time you drink some coffee ;D
However, having prizes like software licenses and even hardware (yes, I'm dreaming too much) that helps the artists and fractal enthusiasts with their works, would be fantastic... but first we must get the attention of more people and make this contest more popular and well known... you are doing great Chris, with your tv show and stuff, but is also a task of all the members to make the compo and the site became something that could get the attention of the sponsors. Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: cKleinhuis on July 02, 2013, 10:17:57 PM oh yeah people, but lets just calm down, dont you all think we already gained much attention?
as i pointed out, the amount of votes this year nearly doubled, which is quite a response, and i say: earlier, you are all some kind of avantgarde, because you are doing stuff no one ever has done before, beside that - we get some attention, not only for finding such great mathematical objects like the mandelbox and the mandelbulb, my recent trip to mexico is some kind of public attention, even though a really small one, next current work will be to stomp out the third calendar in row, as those pictures document nicely what is going on here, and this years calendar is going to be even more amazing than the ones before, but i think i can not go down with the price for it, because of this hugely small amount of copies i produce, just 100, and i need to get the investition back soon, and some kind of revenue is planned as well ehrm, next step will be - with the help of the mexico professor - to aim for a nice TED talk about hybrid fractals :) congrats all, and believe me i am going to continue, no matter what! and growing can be small, but exponential stuff grows slowly at the beginning ... muahaha ;) Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: vinz on July 02, 2013, 10:41:58 PM ehrm, next step will be - with the help of the mexico professor - to aim for a nice TED talk about hybrid fractals :) Woaw Excellent... :D ! Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: cKleinhuis on July 02, 2013, 10:45:30 PM Woaw Excellent... :D ! haha, just an aim, but with a professor at hand that fills out the initial admission, the topic is interesting enough to be told at TED, hybrid 3d fractal - an idea worth spreading :) Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: vinz on July 02, 2013, 10:54:44 PM Hehehe , it's one of the best public place to speak about that subject ! and spread out your ideas ... , it will be exciting to see u there, with some help if needed ;)
Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: Dinkydau on July 03, 2013, 01:47:16 PM ehrm, next step will be - with the help of the mexico professor - to aim for a nice TED talk about hybrid Very nice idea!fractals :) Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: toxic-dwarf on July 04, 2013, 12:15:17 AM Congratulations to the winners and also to everyone who participated - some top notch submissions in all categories. Well done peeps and cheers Christian for running the comp -it's very much appreciated!
Title: Re: 6th Annual Competition Results 2013 - ALL SECTIONS (first 10) Post by: Tahyon on July 04, 2013, 12:10:51 PM Congratulations to the winners and also to everyone who participated - some top notch submissions in all categories. Well done peeps and cheers Christian for running the comp -it's very much appreciated! Congrats to all ! :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: |