===== From beliaev@utu.fi: "The image of Claire and her reflection were added in photoshop." - that's illegal according to IRTC rules. Please next read the rules carefully. ===== From wozzeck@club-internet.fr: Tss tss... you use of Photoshop to include the picture puts you out of the IRTC rules. You could have included it with a mapping on a heightfield (for example). Otherwise your picture is nice, even if the floor suffers from the "swimming pool complex": too shiny. ===== From jaime@ctav.es: Well, the lack of the IMAGE DESCRIPTION item makes hard to see the theme conection. A child illegally pasted in the image don't makes it more "chilhood" related, IMHO. Sorry, but this seems as if you already have a raytrace and when knowed the topic "childhood" decided to paste in a child cutted from a photo. Really poor, both artistically and technically. And best to not talk about originality/concept... And, finally, the most important : the child "paste" can be done very quickly within POVRay, using the same file you cutted, but mapping onto a box or similar and placing them according with the light from both pics. This way, all the final pixels are raytraced and the image becomes legal. It's so easy! P.S.:Excuse this hard comment, but, well, if you read the rules someday perhaps you can understand me. ===== From eallen@highway1.com: the use of image maps for major parts of your image (no matter how well done), detract from the spirit the competition ===== From bobfranke@halcyon.com: The outside image works great. The floor seems too shinny, I found the image very confusing. Now for the bad news. The image is post-processed and only gets a one for the technical score. Claire could have been easily added as an image map. ===== From arcana@sinbad.net: Addition of an image after rendering is, by my interpretation of the rules, a violation of the post processing rules. Beyond that, the image is a nice one, but does not take advantage of the ray tracing medium very much. The outer scene and the figure of the girl could have been produced with the renderer itself (using height fields, csg's, etc..) rather than resorting to image maps. ===== From ethelm@bigfoot.com: Floor too reflective. Does not fit rules as not final ray traced. ===== From bill.marrs@pureatria.com: The image of the child is nice, but a violation of the rules. ===== From msfl.bf@fasonet.bf: Unfortunately, I cannot rate this image, as the adding of Claire in Photoshop goes against the rules of the competition. Nevertheless a nicely made image. ===== From r@ww-td04.proxy.aol.com>: It appears you used a lot of post-processing (among other things) ===== From r@regulus.its.uu.se>: Looks nice, but is a bit simple. Why did you have to cheat? It could have been all done in the renderer.