===== From chris@bluelectrode.com: Wow, looks pretty cool. However I'm uncertain whether or not to give low marks for the use of a post-process filter. Aside from that exquisite image...very original in style. It looks like a mix between a hand-drawn cell and stained glass. The figure, bug-ship, house, and sign-post are incredibly detailed and intriquing in their design. However, as nice as the image is it's not related to gardens at all, so I have to give you a low theme score;) Nice try though. Keep up the good work. ===== From trioker@wanadoo.fr: We are supposed to do a ray traced picture. Theme is "gardens". ===== From bill@apocalypse.org: A very interesting effect. ===== From YaelParis@operamail.com: inappropriate link with the topic. Images must be made for IRTC ! ===== From rbyman@rockies.net: I kinda like this but, well, no garden ===== From gregj56590@aol.com: Wonderful scene. I love it. But it looks like you took a pre-existing scene which had nothing to do with gardens and renamed it. ===== From whhale@nvl.army.mil: I dont see a garden. Good job making it look like a comic. ===== From tom@tomandlu.force9.co.uk: Where's the garden? I do like the style - there's an artist who does 2000ad stuff like this. ===== From ameede@madmac.com: I really like the effect you achieved with your interest, but the one definig characteristic between an artist just starting out, as an artist, is breaking away from visual imagery that is intensely personal and creating works of art that act as bridges to a larger community. ameede@madmac.com ===== From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com: I really like the contour filter, as a matter of fact I was trying to figure out how to do that with POV-Ray. I think it should be relatively simple in principle, but there's a fair bit of work involved and other priorities get in the way. An idea to mature for POV anyway. Otherwise, this does not really look like a garden, but rather like a small backgarden scrap yard (well I've said the word, but this is not really relevant) or maybe more like a petrol station, or yet again like a small country side hotel. Just to say that I really not convinced by the concept. Technically I am unsure as my knowledge, I'm afraid is limited to POV, but it looks pretty well crafted. And it is rather artistic. ===== From albiaprime@aol.com: Technical - appears to be a fairly simple image Artistic - definately looks comic like Theme - difficult to see a garden here ===== From mar@physics.usyd.edu.au: Artistically this is quite a nice image. I'm intrigued by the comic strip quality. However, it seems to be totally off-topic, even given the explanation in the text file.