===== From tek@evilsuperbrain.com: Witty idea, nicely executed, and it looks good too. Nice. ===== From awebb@trans-tec.co.uk: A bit too cliche'd for me. ===== From maarten_hofman@hotmail.com: Obviously I am glad that you decided to join the competition. Your work matches your title. ===== From darwallace@earthlink.net: A nice idea that needs more object detail. ===== From : A very simplistic scene, but gets the theme across despite the crowdedness. Glad you decided to enter the irtc finaly, hope to see more from you in the near future. ===== From whitey@telefragged.com: wow. that must have taken you minutes. ===== From beighton155@yahoo.com: Nice picture, simple and effective ===== From ruy@hipernet.com.br: Gostei muito do conceito, Jo_o. Sua figura me parece ser bem original, ao inv_s de um clich_. ===== From p.olice@free.fr: A notable composition effort. The reading lines in your image are strong and balanced. On the other hand, this is a little...d_j_-vu! ===== From dapigg2000@yahoo.com: A good idea, I guess. It makes sense. I could even say it's applied well, but it reminds me alot of a regular raytracing test. It it pretty lonely and the choice of colours is appropriate. ===== From cfusner@enter.net: Very nicely executed for something that has such basic elements. I notice the cubes are kind of randomly rotated. The first thing I thought when I first saw this was that it would be cool if it looked like the cubes near the sphere were turning as if to "stare" at the oddball in their midst. ===== From daffy-duck@worldnet.att.net: Yay! Nice work. Keep entering the contest. ===== From tim.nikias@gmx.de: I would have thought that some more of us POVers would have come to this obvious idea, but instead, you made an excellent and only one! ===== From suso@suso.org: I like this image. It's simple, but your point is effective. And I find it esthetically pleasing. Glad you could get the lighting right from what you posted before to the newsgroup. ===== From glenn@mccarters.net: I like this image a lot. Clean and simple composition with a strong = message. Artistic illustration. Interesting that you bring up "racism" in the text file -- that = interpretation didn't occur to me at all. ===== From bill@apocalypse.org: That's me! I am that black ball! Get out of my head! Seriously, nice image... I love the clean simple ones. ===== From jinx@spodbox.fsnet.co.uk: Well put together, it works as a complete image. ===== From jamesrskemp@eml.cc: I think the sphere looks really cool actually... ===== From p_chan@shaw.ca: While having the cubes rotated differently is a nice effect, it might be better to have the all face the same way to create a greater sense of conformity. I find the horizon far too bright... I assume this is radiosity affecting the plane extending into the distance. It might be better to chop the plane of in the distance. ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: Good choice of camera angle... it makes a rather simple scene much more interesting. ===== From clem@dhol.org: Decent square/round theme realizatioon. I like the fact that the cubes are rotated differently. They are allowed to be "different" within strict limits.