===== From ewgr@abaddon.globalnet.co.uk: A lot of work must have gone in to getting the reflection of the buildings.. hence the technical merit score. ===== From agage@mines.edu: I'll give you points for writing your own raytracer :) The image is a bit simple, but that's understandable with a prototypical renderer. I'd suggest antialiasing, if it can be done. ===== From gregj56590@aol.com: When most people think of "Night," they might think of adventure, sensuality, style, romance, mystery, being around new people, elegance, machismo, etc. What did you depict? an ashtray! ===== From Martin.Magnusson.7121@student.uu.se: I like the title, it sounds sort of manic. ===== From jjanger@mail.cspp.edu: The image was not all that great but I scored you huge in the Technical category for writing your own raytracer. :) ===== From dormammu@erols.com: Not directly night related, but a good picture, especially considering you wrote the ray tracer yourself. ===== From ethelm@bigfoot.com: Congratulations on writing the Ray Tracing program. ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: You wrote the raytracer? I'm impressed. ===== From djconnel@flash.net: Nice cigarette! (the site of it makes me ill, so it must be realistic :)). The table texture needs some work, but congrats on using your own renderer -- nicely done! concept score is a bit lower than it might be -- this could as easily be done at high noon. Are you related to Craig, by any chance? djconnel@flash.net ===== From cfusner@enter.net: Geez, when we say "all coded by hand" very few of us mean we wrote the raytracer it rendered on as well. Really, Michael, there's such a thing as extreme fanatacism! ===== From r@dial-up30.webbernet.net: The image, artistically, is a bit simplistic, the subject is very marginal for topic, and since the image was apparently not created for this round, there may be a rules violation. Nonetheless, implementing your own ray tracer deserves some technical credit. Still ... isn't recompiling for each image a bit labor intensive? This comment by clem@dhol.com.