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From roth@ens.ascom.ch:
wasn't it Leonardo DaVinci who wrote backwards?

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From swl7m@virginia.edu:
I notice the writing is backwards... If this was Leonardo that would make sense,
as it is, it just 
looks like a misapplication of an image map..
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From mwhite@concourse.net:
Nice idea 

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From gmol@my-dejanews.com:

Nice idea, I can apprciate how hard it is modelling hands...
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From jsaxton@folio.com:
Good concept, interesting idea.
On a technical and artistic level, more attention to detail would have paid off.
For example, the pen seems to be floating above the hand. The floor and wall
textures are monotanous, could have been broken up with something interesting
(multi-colored rug, a tapestry, etc.)
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From skywise@fix.net:
Conceptually great, artistically and technically not so great... From reading
your textfile, though, I think you realised 
this... 

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From 93johnst@scar.utoronto.ca:
Interesting idea, but the room looks too empty.

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
I had to look twice to find the "unobtanium" -- besides being just a glow, it
isn't positioned very prominently in the scene.  Candle flame is really fine,
but upside down (blue should be on bottom)?

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From djconnel@flash.net:
Good job for a personal lesson!!!  The use of shadows is also quite good.

Some suggestions:

* The arm needs some work,
* The flame needs some turbulence
* More details are needed --- the room is too empty, the
  candle isn't dripping, the location of light sources is
  puzzling...
* The pages need to be smoothed -- the discrete angles
  are evident in the banding of the diffuse reflection.

Still, it is a promising scene!

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From wozzeck@club-internet.fr:
Interesting media{} experiment.
Are you sure Galileo wrote leftwards?


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From r@cust193.webbernet.net:
Interesting concept.  Modelling and textures really should have more work,
experiment or no.  That the hand isn't really holding the quill is jarring. 
The journal is fairly nice.  Given the story, the Unobtainium should simply
have disappeared!  This comment by clem@dhol.com.