There are only 8 days left to submit your entry for the PhotoReal Challenge. I currently have 4 entries from different software packages but I'd like to see more. If you have the opportunity and desire to submit an image please do. For those of you who don't know what the PhotoReal challenge is, here is a repost. Something else exciting is happening at [URL="http://www.robrodriguez.com"]www.robrodriguez.com[/URL] for the month of October. You may remember Mark Biasotti's post ([URL]http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=245782574173[/URL]) for the PhotoWorks survey and most photo realistic image vote. A number of us asked for the camera model used in that challenge to be posted publicly so the general CAD community could give it a try. Unfortunately Mark wasn't able to release this model file. A number of us wanted to do a similar challenge for the CAD/rendering community so I have set up the Photo Real Challenge at my website (this challenge is in no way affiliated with SolidWorks corporation). The Photo Real Challenge is a contest to determine who can create the most photorealistic image of the supplied SolidWorks model using any rendering software available (you do not need to use PhotoWorks). The Photo Real Challenge is similar to the PhotoWorks Rendering Contest in that you will have approximately 25 days to create a rendering from the supplied model. All submitted images for the Photo Real Challenge will be posted for a voting period of 5 days. Voting will be done by site visitors and contest participants. The rules for the Photo Real Challenge are different than the PhotoWorks Rendering Contest and can be found at [URL="http://www.robrodriguez.com"]www.robrodriguez.com[/URL] along with the model for download. In addition to submitting an image all entrants will be asked to supply their computer specs, rendering set up time and rendering processing (save) time.
