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FractalForums.com Spring 2010 Fractal Art Competition

FractalForums recently lost one of our Dearest and Most Talented members,  Titia Van Beugen.
We would like to dedicate this year's competition to her memory and we wish her family, friends,
fans, and associates well in this time of great loss.  Flowers, Butterflies, and images rendered
with Fractal Explorer are strongly encouraged to remind us of our departed friend.

This year the annual spring competition on FractalForums.com is held for a third time in row.
There are 3 Sections, each contestant is allowed to contribute 3 images in each section.
Entries may be submitted as soon as the appropriate sections in the Gallery "Go Live" and
the deadline for entries is the 1st of May 2010.

After that period a one month voting session begins which will last until the 1st of June 2010.

This years prizes are for the first placed in each section, they will receive a cup with the
winning image printed on it.

The prizes this year are generously sponsored by FractalForums.com user Margit Schüttler aka GFWorld.

The Images should not exceed 1200x1200 pixels resolution.  New images as well as slightly modified previously posted images are allowed.  Post working images for color saturation, hue shifting, sharpness / blurring, and even just for fun is also permitted.


The Main Gallery is here:
http://www.FractalForums.com/index.php?action=gallery;cat=36

The following sections are available:

1) Mandelbrot - In this section only z^2+c (The "Traditional" Mandelbrot) Formulas are allowed working with complex numbers.  It is allowed to zoom as deep as necessary.  Julia/Mandelbrot Initialization can be used.  And only one layer, but with an arbitrary coloring algorithm for inside/outside regions of the set is allowed.  Interesting Deep zoom shapes may be found in the "Elephant valley" (see http://ultrafractalwiki.FractalForums.com/Deep_Zooms#Elephant_Valley and/or search the web for details)
or "Seahorse Valley" (see http://www.mrob.com/pub/muency/seahorsevalley.html and/or search the web for details).

http://www.FractalForums.com/index.php?action=gallery;cat=38

2) Fractal Fun - This section is meant as a "wild" section, everything concerning with fractals may be entered here.  You may upload interesting Mandelbulb shapes, or any fractal type you like here!

http://www.FractalForums.com/index.php?action=gallery;cat=37

3) Animation  This year an animation section is featured.  Animations of all fractal types from IFS to Mandelbulbs and beyond are welcome!  The only limitation to the Animation is that it should last at least 1 minute, and max 5 minutes

http://www.FractalForums.com/index.php?action=gallery;cat=39

Since this forum does not host animations, entries will be handled as follows:

Step 1)  Upload video to YouTube or similar host (if you can't access YouTube, or just prefer other hosts,
alternatives include http://www.photobucket.com http://www.vimeo.com and many others).

Step 2)  Upload screen shot of movie to the appropriate gallery and include a link to the uploaded video.


Winners in all categories shall be determined by a Community Voting System using the "Ratings" feature already integrated to the forum's Gallery.  Only ratings made in the FractalForums.com gallery on the images will be taken into account - this includes the screen shots for Animations as well as the "static" images in the other categories.
 
If there are any questions concerning the rules, please post in this announcement thread for clarification.
 

Sincerely
The FractalForums.com Admin Team

How to submit an image to the galleries? It asks me to choose a category and I can't choose the competition. Even when I just choose a random category, it doesn't work. The following error occured:

"Error 500 - Internal server error

Ein interner Fehler ist aufgetreten!
Bitte versuchen Sie es zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt."

So should I just do what it says and wait?

hmm, i just uploaded an image to the fun section

additionally i granted access for guest users

are you sure you havent uploaded a too big image ?!?

or is it that my server cant deal with 1600x16000 images, i then would have to adjust the allowed max sizes ....

ok, thank you for reporting

i checked the settings, the gallery was in "resize" mode, and had 1280 as image sizes, so it tried to resize the image and crashed, i deactivated the resizing feature, and allowed a max 1600x1600 image size

please give it another try!

COMPETITION PARAMETERS CHANGED, ALLOWED IMAGE SIZE HAS BEEN REDUCED TO:
1200x1200 pixels max
sorry, but this is due to server problems, the server can not handle that bi images to create thumbnails from it

1200x1200 works, confirmed!  O0

The preview looks crappy in the posts though...  :-\

BUT it looks good in the gallery!!!

Just bug-checking....   :-\

ok, will have to check the posting feature of the gallery
one more sec

ok, i have allowed fullsize image in posted topics, if you want, you can upload your images again,
i will remove the doubles ....

Sorry  :-\

It still doesn't work. When I upload an image it takes me back to the gallery, but the image isn't there.

To everyone who wants to upload images: Note that the maximum file size is 976.56kb.

hmm, that is strange, i uploaded at least the image made by paudelbrot, and it worked fine, and KRAFTWERK also didnt has had any problems ...
so, filesize is indeed limited to 1Mb, or a bit less ...

have you tried uploading an 1200x1200 ~800 kb image ?!?!

so, i increased the allowed filesize to 1,2mb uploading of 1mb images should now also be workin  :hurt:

@margit nice to see you back here, and thank you from all here for providing us with prices this year!

@KRAFTWERK, i updated your low quality preview images in the teasing threads

@margit why is it that you always write in green ?!

The image is 1200×900 and 608 kB. It just doesn't work.  :hmh: I've tried Firefox and Chrome.

@margit nice to see you back here, and thank you from all here for providing us with prices this year!

Thank´s dear Mr.Trifox :-)))

I always try to follow here, whenever I had & have
to reduce my possible PC time a bit allover these last weeks / month - so that´s my contribution for a great FF this year 2010 :-)))

>@margit why is it that you always write in green ?!

Color green , RGB 150 & around,  I took it for my website too. Green - the color of nature & working  fine with RGB 000 - that´s the whole  * mystery * :-)))

Margit

Thanks!

Hi everyone. I'm relatively new here and I didn't have the chance to know Titia Van Beugen. However, I'm sure that there are fractals beyond life too. Bigger, more colourful, and more fractalic!

I will try to post my contest entry today, but until then I will try to figure out where to post the thumbnails - in the corresponding Gallery section or in the corresponding child board section or in both places...

please only upload your image to the corresponding gallery section, thumbnails are generated automatically!!! ( at least they should! )

Actually, I just added my entry in the contest (http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1964 (http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1964)).

I have a question to the admin - the URL to the film on YouTube creates automatically the code to insert the video object in the post. Unfortunately, it is tuned to 4:3 aspect ratio, while my film is 16:9. Is there any way for me to readjust the aspect ratio?

questions:
is it allowed to combine two or three images like background+foreground, because my program doesnt support images for background or clouds?
And the votes will be averaged to give a result, or all stars are added?

From the Rules:


I'd say that fits in with "Post Work" - so unless Trifox objects, I say Absolutely yes  :police:

Unsure on the vote count part though...

in the mandelbrot section it isnt, in the fun section everything is allowed!

I have a random question!  Before I upload my images to a site or enter a contest, I just like to verify that if for whatever reason I have the ability to remove/delete my own image from the site (in this case the contest gallery).

I just like to feel that I have control over my own images.

Thanks.

The permissions are set to allow users to delete their own images, so if you can't - let us know!

But doing so with contest entries is not a good idea.  People could abuse it and swap out images if they are unhappy after entering them technically allowing them to bypass the 3 entry limit   :police:

So if someone chooses to edit or delete contest entries, it may have adverse effects on the legitimacy of their other entries.

I think.

Maybe.

 :police: :police: :police: :police:
you have to write a mail to the administrator ( ME ! ) and i will take care to delete the image physically from the web server, although i believe the gallery also does that
before hitting on a delete action on one of your images, make copies of the thumbnail and big image urls, and save them in a text editor,
if you can still call these images in your browser (AFTER deleting the cache) contact me, and i will remove the files ....

In that case, would it be wise to alter the current permissions settings? 

As it is, people who never saw this thread may delete images and nobody would know! This may leave them on the server.  Perhaps a test is in order?

I only checked what permissions were already set, and replied with that information.  It never occurred to me there may be more to it...

Thanks for the reply.

I have no intention of actually uploading an image then removing it or doing anything that would interfere with the contest.  I was just curious :)

Hello!

I only can "mark read" / "notify" (at fractal fun / fractal movies / mandel brot). I want to send some threads for the competition.  
I can't start a "new topic" there. :sad1:

The competition entries are entered in the Gallery  (Link up top)  and a thread is automatically created in the forum by the software.

So just go to the gallery, and upload the appropriate stuffs to the appropriate categories and all will be well   O0

Thank you Sockratease! Now it works.  :happy:

>FractalForums.com Spring 2010 Fractal Art Competition Submission Period has Ended

The Entry Submissions time frame for the "FractalForums.com Spring 2010 Fractal Art Competition" has now ended.  This submission period set a new record for Member Activity on the FractalForums, with around 650.000 Page Views ...

Great !!! :-)))

Thank´s Fractal Forums Team for info & work around !  :) :) :)

Margit