===== From sonya_roberts@geocities.com: Amazing image! Triple twenty...bravo! ===== From kazemir@pde.com: WOW!, Great image!, I love the atmosphere of the picture, good rain, good water on the road, good model for the woman, great cars, great bench ... The streat light seems to be floating, I can't see what is supporting it. I would have made the rose more red, it looks pink on my screen. The only other point, is the building in the middle of the scene, it looks a little plain. I would expect, perhaps a store front in the bottom, and windows on both sides for appartments etc. But I am being picky. This is my favorite image from this round, great work! ===== From bill.marrs@pureatria.com: wow, all-around great idea/image! ===== From jaime@ctav.es: I tried to give you 99-99-99 points, but the submissions robot has rejected the form. Sorry, I'm unable to give you more than 20-20-20. :) ===== From lowellr@globaldialog.com: My personal favorite ===== From wozzeck@club-internet.fr: What should I dare add to this? This is one of the best POV-Ray made pictures I ever saw. Congratulations! ===== From dick@buckosoft.com: Stunning image. My first ever triple 20, even though... you've used a hooded traffic light (70's) in your 40's scene. ===== From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de: Wow, this is truly amazing! One of the most realistic images I ever saw. Special bonus for daring to use black and white. Ever thought of using reflection maps instead of dozens of objects out of camera? Only minor point I can find: Halos around the street lamps might have added a little more atmosphere. Not that it did not have enough atmosphere as it is. (Or at least make the raindrops in the light of the lamps _much_ brighter than others. Look at street lamps in a rainy night.) ===== From i_emackay@mountains.net.au: Excellent. I can't think of any improvements. The winning image! ===== From Martin.Magnusson.7121@student.uu.se: one of the better images this round. Just a couple of comments: the street is *very* wet, but maybe it's suppoesed to be that way, and the two lamps on the house walls look a bit too large and 'clumsy'. A great image, though. Bravo! ===== From arcana@sinbad.net: I have to say I was tremendously impressed with this image. Not much more I can say beyond that. It's a winner in my books. :{) ===== From msfl.bf@fasonet.bf: Amazing, both artistically and technically. Pretty tough to get so much contrast out of a B/W picture. Definetely my guess for this month's winner. ===== From ptdawson@voicenet.com: It's flawless --- 20/20/20 --- great job, Glenn! ===== From bobfranke@halcyon.com: Brilliant use of color and textures and detail. My only suggestion for improvement is that the windows in the buildings need more detail. Got my highest vote for tech. ===== From peter@table76.demon.co.uk: Six days of rendering time? That makes me feel better :-) . (But not much better.) "Just" a CSG of 38 cylinders? *faints* I even liked the .txt file! ===== From web_user@flex058.dijkgraaf.wau.nl: Nothing but compliments for your entry, Glenn. It's brilliant! What a fabulous idea, a black&white cinema entry. The rain and the wet sidewalk is one of the most realistic raytracing effects I've ever seen. Simply stunning! But okay, I'll try to find some points of criticism :) - I think the ambient-settings for the buildings is set a bit too high, I think the effect would be more realistic if they would fade into the darkness more, especially the buildings further back in the alleys. That way it might be even more realistic because it would be less visible the buildings were computergenerated. The hair of the woman walking and the curls of the bench are pretty dark, so I think the extra darkness of the background would not have damaged the scene in terms of unrealistic contrast. The colored-grey effect is brilliant, it adds so much more to the atmosphere than just greyscales. I don't know whether I should like the colored rose or hate it... It's a nice effect but also ruins the realism. And finally, i wonder what the effect would have been if you would have submitted the greyscale image itself as an entry instead of mapping it into a poorly modelled cinema-scene ===== From r@dialup83.webbernet.net>: Brilliant idea, well realized. I like the attention to detail. Maybe lose the exit sign? My number one. Notable for lighting, textures, modelling, originality