===== From scooby@pld.com: Incredible use of lighting and atmosphere. Very appealing. ===== From Sean_Hamilton@amrcorp.com: Another pic that just grabs you and won't let go. The black and white contrasts are so powerful and I don't care that it doesn't relate to the theme. And the Ark is in the third box to the right. ===== From gregj56590@aol.com: Off-topic. ===== From nx@chez.com: Too bad there's almost nothing in the foreground (bottom of the picture)... Nice pillar shapes, anyway, good dust atmosphere (may be long to render, uh?). ===== From bobfranke@halcyon.com: A very nice study in light. It's amazing what can be done with just a bunch of boxes. ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: Reeeeally thin connection to "elements". Nice image, though. I do like the theme, the colors, the lighting. ===== From arcana@sinbad.net: Hard as it would be to do this, I think this scene could have come to life more if you'd managed to give it more of a dusty, long-disused, feel. Add in some peeling paint and rust to the FEM's (do it all with layered textures, with normals to do the bumpiness of rust. Add in a few CSG's or bezier patches to simulate the peeling paint), some dust on the ground (something I'm hoping one day to perfect with my own experiments in texturing in POV), etc.. Still, I love the atmosphere (if you'll pardon the pun). ===== From djconnel@flash.net: Wow... I'd really like to see the render time on this one. This is an excellent experiment in atmosphere and light -- nicely done!!! A few comments, though : * the beams are too sharply defined. A little fuzziness would really be a nice touch on the square ones. The circular ones sort of take care of themselves. * The scene is a bit TOO achromatic. See "The Drama of Cinema" for the effect of applying subtle color to B&W images (it won the Entertainment round last year)... not the red rose, but the subtle use of color in the rest of the image. * The connection to the topic is rather .... stretched. ===== From wozzeck@club-internet.fr: I'm not totally convinced by the theme... Anyway, about the picture, some suggestion for further improvements: the effect is nice, but some parts look flat because of the lack of shadows (e.g. in the leftmost stack). Anoher point is that, while the outer limit of the spotlights is blurred (nice), the inner "cuts" are too "crisp". ===== From ekennedy@voyager.net: Love the black & white effect. "Finite element" was an interesting interpretation. ===== From 101741.541@compuserve.com: The interaction between the pillars and light is interesting, tough probably underexploited (I mean you don't play enough with that). The "one primitive" idea is interesting too. ===== From r@client8788.globalnet.co.uk: Notable for originality