===== From chipr@niestu.com: Cool concept. The beads are a bit too regularly spaced. Love the lava lamp, ashtray, and shadows. ===== From sroberts@learn.senecac.on.ca: A good beginning image; the carpet is especially nice. The double shadow of the lamp on the wall is a bit distracting. The large expanses of unbroken wall surface are crying for something - perhaps one of those huge, loudly coloured wallpaper patterns that were so popular in the seventies ;) ===== From m-kolb@uiuc.edu: I see you figured out how to get the shag to work. Nice job. : ) Michael J. Kolb ===== From jay@map.com: I do like that lava lamp. You might want to try an area light for the light coming in the door - would soften the shadows. ===== From cgallego@nordnet.fr: Good idea... But you should have use that special lamp to light the scene, to get a better atmosphere... You have also a problem with shadows... http://home.nordnet.fr/~cgallego ===== From warwick@cs.uq.edu.au: Lamp shadow has no blue; lamp casts no light. Room too light to highlight lavalamp. ===== From tholal@bga.com: Love the beads. ===== From bill.marrs@pureatria.com: Yes - this reminds me of my childhood (in the '70's)... The lavalamp shadow looks odd - and area-light would help to soften it. ===== From mickmcm@indigo.ie: Carpet looks great. The beads cast a nice shadow too. ===== From mjhammel@emass.com: Its a nice image but the focus of the image is not the glass object. The focus of the image is the doorway with the light coming through it. My suggestion (for what its worth) is to highlight the topical objects in some way - more direct lighting, centralized to the scene, put in focus with other objects out of the focal length, etc. Just a thought. ===== From ucoakc00@mcl.ucsb.edu: The carpet is absolutely amazing! I tried to get good carpet and spent hours rendering MANY random cones, (Don't try this, NOT worth the wait). I like the ashtray as well. a couple more items in the scene would have been nice, but overall I like it. ONE KEY NOTE: the shadow for the lava lamp is wrong. the glass should cause a shadow, especially if it is filled with a colored liquid. Also, where are the light sources (and why are there more than one) for the scene. Your shadows can't make up their mind. ===== From danclegg@uniserve.com: Swell. ===== From Matthew_L_Ziegler@hill-top.com: There should be some light emitting from the Lavalamp ===== From whytea@topaz.cqu.edu.au: Neat Lava lamp. ===== From rea@st-and.ac.uk: Here the image is slightly marred by perfection. I would like to see the same scene traced with the beads slightly random, and the table at a slight angle. Not bad for a first render though! ===== From mwhite@redshift.com: This trace looks really nice. Needs more glass objects! ===== From jmills@stic.net: I'd have liked to see a closer shot of the lamp...as it is it only takes up ten percent of the picture. Keep up the good work! jmills@stic.net ===== From amarok@geocities.com: The mat looks nice. ===== From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de: The carpet is great! The room, contrary to your intention, looks brightly lit. ===== From xeo@sprynet.com: groovy! ===== From lpurple@netcom.com: A little skimpy on the glass, but not bad for the 1st effort. Some future improvements might be to have the glass beads of the curtain casting little refractions and caustics (by putting a fake texture map on the wall) Oh, and fix the shadow for the lava light. The shag carpet looks very good. ===== From dick@buckosoft.com: The color of the lavalamp is awesome. The shag carpet has a great texture. Good camera angle and placement of objects. I thought the room looked a little barren and decided it's missing a wall switch next to the poster and an outlet under the table. The carpet should be darker in the doorway (high traffic area, those shag carpets always matted down easily. remember ;) And i think the beads are too regular. Only an anal retentive hippy would have gotton each column exactly the same; they should be staggered. Great first pic. From web_user@tonyv.aztec.co.za: Interesting.