===== From chris@bluelectrode.com: Great concept and use of artistic license. Usually I detest abstracts but yours has won me over. Good job. ===== From bill@apocalypse.org: I immediately thought - "Monet Filter"! ===== From YaelParis@operamail.com: very impressive, I can't imagine such image produced by POV ! ===== From whhale@nvl.army.mil: Some of the highest marks I've given. I'm not a monet fan but I feel you have done his work justice. ===== From ianshumsky@hotmail.com: Wow - a ray traced oil painting! Great technique! ===== From eallen@highway1.com: Very nice. One of the best this round. A suggestion: Add a photorealistic frame and some bump-mapping for a brushstroke effect... On second thought, nah. It's great just the way it is. ===== From emediez@emediez.com: Excellent Job. Some near-Matisse-colors though, equally enhancing the whole composition. The "Blur" effect gives a complete new texture to the objects. Congratulations! ===== From tom@tomandlu.force9.co.uk: A wonderful image - I enjoyed guessing how you had accomplished the effect before reading the notes (I guessed a distorting mirror). A fraction to bright perhaps? PS - couldn't resist turning off "Matisse" and rendering. Half expected to find an in-joke. ===== From CHRIS_DARCY@YAHOO.COM: No depth. No shadow. ===== From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com: Definitely very artistic. I am in owe at the way you can achieve that with POV. The effect is excellent although not quite like Monet's paintings yet, but yes you are correct it looks "gratifyingly more like an oil painting than a raytracing". A very good submission. One of the top few. (Fifth ? but how's that for a judgement, this is highly subjective - I mean the top few are within a brace of each other). ===== From jaime@ctav.es: Impressive! I tried such efect, exactly the way you did, with a camera normal. But I never achieved so good results. Amazing! ===== From wozzeck@club-internet.fr: Another very nice attempt at 2D unrealism. I really like it, even if the results looks more like an underwater picture. ===== From albiaprime@aol.com: Technical - I don't like Monet's However, high marks earned for a very good reproductions Artistic - again not my taste in art, but high marks for excellent reproduction Theme - Full Marks!