1. Contest Idea
- Posted by poplar at vicon.net Nov 05, 2002
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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
2. Re: Contest Idea
- Posted by tone.skoda at gmx.net Nov 05, 2002
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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
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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
- Posted by Wolf <wolfritz at KING.IGS.NET> Nov 05, 2002
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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
- Posted by "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> Nov 06, 2002
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> Ideas? Check http://acm.uva.es/problemset/ > > -- Brian Looks like there might be a few challenges there. ;)
6. Contest Idea
- Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Nov 08, 2002
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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 --------- Derek.