Title: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: cKleinhuis on July 01, 2016, 07:59:48 AM The competition 2016 is over, we are glad for 69 participants who contributed 167 entries in total, 3664 single votings result in the ranking we have now
to name the winners first we ask to the stage, the fractal artists known by their forums usernames: "haltenny", "pulsar69", "arias", "stardust4ever" and "CFJH" starting the ceremony with the most open section - still frame - the still frame section has "haltenny" with the "New Time Machine" entry as winner in total rating - Congratulations - the still frame section has "pulsar69" with the "Haunted House" entry as winner in average rating - Congratulations the film section showed immense film entries, with real stories that where told, the winners here are - the film secion has "pulsar69" with "Mineralia" a second time this year - winning the total rating - Congratulations - the film secion has "arias" with "The Exoplorer" winning the average rating - Congratulations and the experimental ultra deep mandelbrot section has been rocked by a single person with another interesting results, and the winner os - stardust4ever with "Magnum Opus Dragon" - Congratulations - this section produced the same 1st-3rd places in both ratings thank you to all participants, contributors and voters! and here we go with the top 3 in each category, the colums are: rank, image, username, title, Still Frame
Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: TheRedshiftRider on July 01, 2016, 08:23:00 AM Congratulations to the top 3 of every category.
Its interesting that the wildstyle has such a variety in the results, even in the top 3. Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: arias on July 01, 2016, 10:02:58 AM HIP HIP HIP Hourra!
Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: KRAFTWERK on July 01, 2016, 10:50:12 AM Congratulations to the well deserved winners!!!
:cantor_dance: Runner up with the same shit in two categories... not bad O0 Thank you for the votes! :beer: Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: Caleidoscope on July 01, 2016, 11:55:03 AM :joy: :toast: Congratulations to all the winners of this great Competition! It was a real clash of the Titans such incredible quality.
Thank you for all the beauty that you have showed us! :beer: :beer: Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: brasnacte on July 01, 2016, 07:03:39 PM Its interesting that the wildstyle has such a variety in the results, even in the top 3. What exactly do you find interesting about it? One shows quantity, the other shows quality. Why are you surprised they diverge so much? Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: stardust4ever on July 01, 2016, 07:06:00 PM Awesome! So many entries, can't believe I won twice! ;D
PS - Congrats to the other winners, and everyone who participated! :cantor_dance: Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: 3dickulus on July 01, 2016, 08:40:55 PM Absolutely some of the most amazing works I've ever seen... :o
Congrats to the winners and appreciation to all who were able to participate :beer: :beer: :beer: Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: TheRedshiftRider on July 01, 2016, 09:35:42 PM What exactly do you find interesting about it? One shows quantity, the other shows quality. Why are you surprised they diverge so much? You are right, I haven't thought about it that way. But wouldn't the other sections have had it as well then? Maybe a higher number of entries will make that diversion more obvious.Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: simon.snake on July 01, 2016, 09:49:58 PM Now voting has finished it would be nice to be able to see ratings in gallery again. Hope it's not too difficult to switch back on.
Thanks. Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: cKleinhuis on July 01, 2016, 10:33:17 PM Awesome! So many entries, can't believe I won twice! ;D PS - Congrats to the other winners, and everyone who participated! :cantor_dance: hey stardust, congrats from me as well,we had many times winners of different sections or winners of different rating systems, you do amazing stuff and this is your prize, i wonder why exactly those two pics made it so high, but they surely deserve it ;) Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: cKleinhuis on July 01, 2016, 10:34:08 PM Now voting has finished it would be nice to be able to see ratings in gallery again. Hope it's not too difficult to switch back on. Thanks. no worries, will enable it as soon as possible, but please bare with me and take another day for it to show up again Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: stardust4ever on July 02, 2016, 05:41:17 AM hey stardust, congrats from me as well,we had many times winners of different sections or winners of different rating systems, you do amazing stuff and this is your prize, i wonder why exactly those two pics made it so high, but they surely deserve it ;) Thanks cKleinuis. I simply found a neat location and expanded upon it. In fact the coordinates for my second entry Magnum Opus Dragon were inside the first image. At 77 million iterations, it took quite some time to locate the target and render it, not to discredit anyone else's efforts.I almost feel guilty for hogging the spotlight considering both 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the deep zoom category were duplicates. The depth of some of the other entries were truly astonishing. I don't want to think about how long Kalles' e-twenty-something-thousand location must have taken to locate and render....... Also a shoutout for CFJH's 2nd place "Bugs". Every time I see someone else making shapes out of those little Xs, I smile. One thing about the deep Mandelbrot entry is these locations are pure math objects. The art is all about choosing a path and assigning some pretty colors to the image. I thoroughly enjoyed viewing the other entries though. There is some incredible talent for show in the film and wild styles categories. Mineralia and The Explorer were both very deserving of awards in the film section, one being "pure" fractal scenes and the other a very well scripted sci-fi short. Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: brasnacte on July 02, 2016, 08:00:55 AM You are right, I haven't thought about it that way. But wouldn't the other sections have had it as well then? Maybe a higher number of entries will make that diversion more obvious. Well, the mandelbrot section is the same because they've all been rated exactly 21 times. Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: pulsar69 on July 02, 2016, 08:49:50 AM Congratulations to all winners and all participants !
I'a m particulary happy about my result in Film secion because i have never win that one, and it's also great to have Arias wining, because his work is technically incredible.(and i have the luck that Brasnacte do not participate that time ;) ! ) Thanx to all. Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: haltenny on July 03, 2016, 10:42:27 PM Wow, so happy to be among this years winners! Congratulations to everyone! So hard to get a 'plain, raw' fractal with no tricks in the running too. Thanks to everyone that voted!
Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: taurus on July 04, 2016, 12:15:59 AM First my congrats to pulsar, arias, Hal, Johan, Matthew, stardust4ever and CFJH. Well deserved wins! Especially I am pleased for Hal's first place. He has been one of the best AND most unique artists for years, so this victory is more than deserved.
One shows quantity, the other shows quality. You still got that one dimensional pov? It is an open secret, that on platforms that contain dislikes - like youtube - the percentage of dislikes increases with the number of "votes". For sure the tendency you mentioned should not be dismissed, but in best case, it is half of the truth. So the divergence we see in still frame and weaker in film section is nothing, but natural! Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: xenodreambuie on July 04, 2016, 01:05:59 AM Congratulations to everyone, and to the winners. I will message the winners about the Jux and XenoDream prizes.
Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: Vega on July 04, 2016, 06:58:08 AM All winners pictures are black, dark (except the watermelon).
Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: Spain2points on July 04, 2016, 06:48:45 PM cool stuff, congrats to the winners
Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: haltenny on July 05, 2016, 08:22:58 PM First my congrats to pulsar, arias, Hal, Johan, Matthew, stardust4ever and CFJH. Well deserved wins! Especially I am pleased for Hal's first place. He has been one of the best AND most unique artists for years, so this victory is more than deserved. Thank you very much taurus! That is so kind and so much appreciated! Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: pinballpsycho on July 07, 2016, 10:42:32 PM Congrats to all who entered! Some really impressive work!
Title: Re: Competition 2016 - Results - 1st-3rd Places Post by: stardust4ever on August 31, 2016, 01:58:04 AM Friendly bump, my contest winning entrants are up on deviantart.com now! O0 http://stardust4ever.deviantart.com/art/Dance-of-the-Fire-Dragon-II-2016-FF-Contest-Winner-630161787 http://stardust4ever.deviantart.com/art/Magnum-Opus-Dragon-2016-FF-Contest-Winner-630162143 http://stardust4ever.deviantart.com/art/Magnum-Opus-Dragon-5k-Panorama-630162355 The panorama version Magnum Opus Dragon had to be rerendered for the ultra wide aspect of the Coffee Mug prize, and I liked it enough to render it a second time as "5k" panoramic version (5120x2160). Sorry for the late reply but I tend to procrastinate, LOL... :clown: I am currently working on a zoom movie in Kalles Fraktaller that passes through the original Dance of the Fire Dragon location to the minibrot at ~e257, but it's slow go. Last I checked, over 55 hours into the final frame at 4k resolution with 337,500,000 iteration limit! No telling when the zoom video will be done but I hope it picks up speed or it might take months to complete. Good thing I have a UPS! Overclocked Bulldozer CPU is running stable but a bit warm, 71 C, pulling about 325 watts at the outlet in the summer heat... :fiery: Thanks again to everyone who competed; you guys are all great! :thanks2: |