1. Contest Idea
- Posted by poplar at vicon.net
Nov 05, 2002
Rob Craig said:
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If someone comes up with a good contest idea,
and someone agrees to be the judge,
RDS will advertise the contest on our Web site
and give $39 in MicroEconomy money to the winner.
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While there are several contests regarding "serious" programming
efforts I'd like to see, the one that would give the most pleasure for
me, and I think for others, would be a repeat of the sort of Christmas
graphic efforts of some creative people on this list a while back.
The whole thing was spontaneous and showed off, in a beautiful way,
the speed and elegance of Euphoria and the imaginations of its fans.
How 'bout a sleigh ride through a moon-lit snowy world, for example...
--Quark
2. Re: Contest Idea
- Posted by tone.skoda at gmx.net
Nov 05, 2002
Yes good idea, contest of graphical demos, the most beautiful demo wins.
Maybe there could be voting of people to be judges?
----- Original Message -----
From: <poplar at vicon.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Contest Idea
>
> Rob Craig said:
> ========================================
> If someone comes up with a good contest idea,
> and someone agrees to be the judge,
> RDS will advertise the contest on our Web site
> and give $39 in MicroEconomy money to the winner.
> ========================================
>
> While there are several contests regarding "serious" programming
> efforts I'd like to see, the one that would give the most pleasure for
> me, and I think for others, would be a repeat of the sort of Christmas
> graphic efforts of some creative people on this list a while back.
> The whole thing was spontaneous and showed off, in a beautiful way,
> the speed and elegance of Euphoria and the imaginations of its fans.
>
> How 'bout a sleigh ride through a moon-lit snowy world, for example...
>
> --Quark
>
>
>
>
3. Re: Contest Idea
- Posted by tone.skoda at gmx.net
Nov 05, 2002
Maybe only DOS could be allowed and no libraries of people other than you,
and only builtin Euphoria functions?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Bensler" <bensler at mail.com>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: Contest Idea
>
> What about all the people who might not be graphically inclined?
> How about the ones who only use DOS? They surely can't compare to
> something written with OpenGL. Besides, MIC would blow all our socks
> off! :P
>
> Chris
>
> tone.skoda at gmx.net wrote:
> > Yes good idea, contest of graphical demos, the most beautiful demo wins.
> > Maybe there could be voting of people to be judges?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <poplar at vicon.net>
> > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 3:27 AM
> > Subject: Contest Idea
> >
> >
> > > Rob Craig said:
> > > ========================================
> > > If someone comes up with a good contest idea,
> > > and someone agrees to be the judge,
> > > RDS will advertise the contest on our Web site
> > > and give $39 in MicroEconomy money to the winner.
> > > ========================================
> > >
> > > While there are several contests regarding "serious" programming
> > > efforts I'd like to see, the one that would give the most pleasure for
> > > me, and I think for others, would be a repeat of the sort of Christmas
> > > graphic efforts of some creative people on this list a while back.
> > > The whole thing was spontaneous and showed off, in a beautiful way,
> > > the speed and elegance of Euphoria and the imaginations of its fans.
> > >
> > > How 'bout a sleigh ride through a moon-lit snowy world, for example...
> > >
> > > --Quark
> > >
> > >
>
>
>
4. Re: Contest Idea
How about an actual unique user application that would be of interest to !MORE!
than just our tiny Euphoria community.
( - excluding 'generic' clones of this'n'that we all have a dozen copies of
already - )
Wouldn't hurt to advertize our toys(abilities) to a more general audience, would
it?
Okay, I'm guessing it'd be more work over a longer time frame ( three months? ),
unless someone's got a hidden gem we
don't know about, but even I'd be more than willing to contribute more than 2
cents just to see something a little more
useful than pretty pictures.
Wolf
5. Re: Contest Idea
> Ideas? Check http://acm.uva.es/problemset/
>
> -- Brian
Looks like there might be a few challenges there. ;)
6. Contest Idea
Two routines: One to compress an XML document and another to decompress it.
A general text compression algorithm would be fine but being an XML document,
one might be able to
squeeze a few more percentage points of compression because we can use its known
structure to our
advantage.
Rationale: XML is being recognised as a "fat" data representation method, and
this is admitted by its
creators as a delibrate strategy. However due to XML being used largely for
document transmission,
the size of the document can be an issue. A fast and effective
compression/decompression procedure
may help some document transfers.
I propose judging to be based on two criteria; the compression ratio and the
speed of
compression/decompression. The final tests to be performed on 3 or 4 XML
documents supplied by the
judges. Maybe a simple score such as...
((OldSize - NewSize) / ((CompressTime + DecompressTime) / 2))
Ulterior Motive: I'm currently working with XML and would something to help me
out 
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Derek.
