===== From bobfranke@halcyon.com: Nice job on Venus and good use of data found on the Internet. The scrabble pieces and drink glasses came out good. The view window looks like it needs some glass, or maybe it uses a force field to keep the cabin pressurized. There is some nice modeling here, but I would like to see more attention to the small details. ===== From johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu: What a stunning amount of work...mos people would have just used an image map for the scrabble board. ===== From caleb@chemeng.uct.ac.za: Is 'axon' a word? ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: Nice try, but the scene misses the mark for me. Where did all the people go? Good clean modelling all around, but little details bother me, like: why are the Scrabble tiles exactly evenly spaced? Where are the unused tiles? Why is no score written after two turns? Where are the reflections in the window? Good textures. Good Venus. ===== From djconnel@flash.net: I really like this scene! The contrast between the spectacular view of Venus and the mundane SCRABBLE game is striking. A few comments: * The height field on Venus seems exagerrated. Assuming 10km altitude variation on an approximate 5Mm planetary radius with a visible radius of 100 pixels results in a peak-to-sea variation of 0.2 pixels. Yet the mountains in the image seem much larger than this. * The lighting in the cabin seems strange. * The poster is a bit to prominent. It seems to be glowing.... I would make it a bit more subdued. Still, as I noted, I really like the general image. The use of texture in the interior is quite nice. ===== From east103@dialaccess.com: Scene seems a little to stale. Dirty up the place a bit. Vary the texture on like objects a little. ===== From ethelm@bigfoot.com: The planet outside the window is great. The items inside the ship are good but look more holiday camp than 30th century space ship. More subtle lighting would help. ===== From blaineholmes@hotmail.com: Way cool looking planet. ===== From clem@dhol.com: An interesting idea. I like the choice of date. Given the date, the archaism of the lounge furnishings is peculiar. As if Skylab had been fitted with Elizabethan furniture. Incidentally, the attitude of the destination and the layout of the lounge, as well as the well behaved fluids, imply pretty sophisticated gravity and possibly inertia control. I note some minor aliasing, especially on the chair backs. The planet looks a bit too shiny and marble like but not bad. The starfield is good, but much too sparse for a view from space. The other objects in the scene are well modelled, with a good but not spectacular level of detail. Carbonation in the beverages would have been nice. The poster needs changing. As it is, it makes it seem that the real view is a poster too. ===== From r@haka.saunalahti.fi: The scrabble table looks good, as well as Venus, but the room is rather dull. It'd need some textures and other detail. Also some reflections from the window would indicate that it is indeed one, not just another poster.