Johnny wins a superb Appro dual Opteron workstation valued at $10,000. Appro are manufacturers of high-performance workstations, storage, and cluster solutions, whose hardware is ideal for running such CPU-intensive applications as POV-Ray.

Second place is taken by Jaime Vives Piqueres with his photorealistic entry titled 'The Kitchen'. Jaime now has the task of selecting $2,500 worth of goods from Zazzle.com as he is the winner of a Zazzle shopping spree! Zazzle is a unique user-to-user creative marketplace based on the WWW where folks can buy and sell custom products such as posters, prints, cards, and apparel. The top 25 images will be made available in poster form from Zazzle in due course.

Third place goes to Ziga Petric (a.k.a. 'Newt') for his futuristic nano-vision 'Dissolution'. Ziga will join Jaime browsing Zazzle's virtual aisles as the winner of a $1,000 zazzle shopping spree.

Fourth place is occupied by two images, which were so close together that rather than choose one over the other, it was decided to award a joint fourth place. Zazzle graciously agreed to provide the same prize to both entrants. Both Douglas Eichenberg and Rene Bui will receive a Zazzle colossal poster for their entries. Douglas submitted a surreal rendering titled 'Victoria's World', which impressed the judges though its level of detail. Rene submitted a quite detailed and artistic take on Jan Vermeer's 'Girl With A Pearl Earring' entitled 'Twin Girls With A Pearl Earring'.

Fifth place was not awarded given the dual fourth place mentioned above.

The full list of primary places is given below.

We would like to thank all entrants for their effort and time and we hope that you all enjoy browsing the excellent contributions to POVCOMP 2004.

The entries can be viewed at the competition website.