===== From emediez@emediez.com: Outstanding. ===== From : I know this may seem harsh on your render time, but the mountain texture needs more fine detail. I suggest checking out Nathan Kopp's MegaPOV and its isosurface to add some rocky detail, then a slope_map texture. Very nice otherwise. ===== From batronyx@cadronhsa.com: Nicely done for a first time POV effort. I instantly recognized the location from various pictures I've seen. Effective use of simple geometry for the praying people. I suggest learning about POV's anti-aliasing features and/or Photoshop's control over JPEG output. ===== From tony@awmcs.net: Your lighting is well done. ===== From marlo.steed@home.com: Nice image, great detail but the quality of the image was rather poor... rendering needed some work. ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: Very nice. I like the sense of vastness that this scene conveys. The shaping on the two pillars (minars?) is good. The glow coming from the windows seems a little too defined, though. ===== From chris_hormann@gmx.de: It looks very impressive, the evening atmosphere is very interesting. Some parts of the texturing could be improved though IMO. The rendering time seems quite slow. You seem to use quite a lot of media. Maybe also try using only one Area light and radiosity for illumination. Extra point for the long text :-) ===== From youknow@ucan.foad.org: Possibly the scale is correct but it was not possible for me to tell those were people on the ground at first. I'm not sure there is anything you could do about that without composing a completely different image, conceptually, but only your text file alerted me to the presence of the worshippers. ===== From mark.wagner17@gte.net: Very detailed modelling! ===== From albiaprime@aol.com: Great Job!! ===== From delfeld@mailcity.com: Epistemology: Try to be concise. It is hard to get through your ramblings in the text. Is knowledge obtained only by explaining the subjective progression of thought? I know that Muhammed wrote this way, but we do not have to imitate that, since it is not clear. Axiology: Why submit? And why is that anything close to being worshipful? Ontology: Apparently, we are all pawns without name or meaning, and obedient only to a quite contradictory law text (the little I know of Muhammed's writings). ===== From file: Notable for modelling, composition, originality, lighting ===== From file: Notable for modelling, composition, originality, lighting