===== From darwallace@earthlink.net: The door hit the art score. A wood texture and raised panels (difference of box and 4 planes or prism with linear_sweep) would have helped. ===== From pbourke@swin.edu.au: Good artificial image, classical raytracing. Too bad about the unfortunate shadow of the dolphin. ===== From luisvaloyes@malditasea.zzn.com: very original ===== From dvnss@mega.ist.utl.pt: Nice decoration! ===== From douge@nls.net: I think this is one of the better entries this round. Despite the use of stock textures, the image is well lit, nicely modelled, and well composed. The color scheme is nice too. The focal blur is well used. ===== From tony@j4tb.com: This is a beautiful picture with a nice story line. I particularly like the textures used. An excellent first time entry! ===== From bbowen@cswnet.com: Not bad at all for a first entry. ===== From angelaperry@webcombo.net: A very creative picture. There's something about it that is very appealing: I think it's the combination of the detail and the story behind it. Very nice! ~A. Perry ===== From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com: I like it and the story ;-) ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: I really like the clock in this scene... the dolphin shape is very nice. The shaping on the object at the top of the scene is good, but the wood texture could use some work... it makes the object look less real than it should, especially compared to the other objects in the scene. ===== From sjlen@ndirect.co.uk: The text file bored the hell out of me, you spent about 50 lines telling me what I could already see from looking at the image. The whole text file could have been summarised in about ten liens without losing any information. This is very good work for a first entry, especially the dolphin. The render time was way over the top possibly caused by not manually bounding some of your more complicated CSG objects. The area lights make a big difference to an image like this and sadly the places where they havn't been applied or have been badly positioned stand out and catch the viewers attention. Keep up the good work. When it comes to text files, let the image tell the story (which this one does very well). ===== From delfeld@mailcity.com: Nice start for a ray-tracing competition. The text file helped quite a bit, but I (personally) prefer the image to speak for itself, especially if it's symbolic. I really like the shadow of the chain on the wall. ===== From file: great interpretation for the theme Notable for originality ===== From file: Notable for composition