===== From maarten_hofman@hotmail.com: This is the correct amount of darkness for the picture, which makes it better than many of the other pictures this round that use darkness. The objects in the room are slightly too much that: separate objects that don't really form a whole. I don't know how to fix this, though, and they all to contribute to the picture. ===== From ojamies@cs.helsinki.fi: Relyiing on radiosity on lightning might give good results. The red glow on left could perhaps be brighter. Shadows don't feel right. ===== From darwallace@earthlink.net: I'm not so sure about that wall. ===== From : This is not a bad image for your first entry. I am sorry that your radiosity runs did not turn out as expected. I think you could of improved the lighting a lot more than your current setup by getting the radiosity tweaked right. Hope to see more from you in the future. ===== From rgow@calweb.com: I'm not getting the connection to the theme. ===== From klynn@telefish.net: I hear Escher was huge in ancient Israel! ;-) ===== From beighton155@yahoo.com: its a nice picture and from your discription a nice idea but there was no indication of any elememts of loneliness. ===== From ruy@hipernet.com.br: It doesn't strike em as a fair depiction of the topic "loneliness". ===== From dapigg2000@yahoo.com: Pretty convincing ===== From glenn@mccarters.net: If that is David of biblical times, why is there an Escher image on the = wall? Perhaps a more traditional landscape or portrait would be more = fitting here. The overall color scheme is good, but some of the = textures (particularly the censor base) are too dull. This is a product = of texture choice, lighting strategy, and lack of radiosity. The robe = is good. The rug is much too thick. The figure looks like he's doing a = pushup. I question the wood floor, the doorknob, and the decorated door = -- are these authentic for the period? The wood and vase textures are = fine. ===== From p_chan@shaw.ca: The lighting in the scene looks very good. The only thing that really doesn't look right is that the light source for the censor seems too high up (based on it's shadow) to be realistically coming from the coals, but I understand that this was probably necessary to get proper lighting for the room. The wood texture makes fairly good fringes for the carpet, although the entire carpet, and especially the fringes, look too thinck in comparison to the robe. ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: Some nice work here... the robe and the plant look especially good. The dust in the light ray looks more like smoke than dust to me. I like the rough stone walls, but it seems a bit odd to me used for an interior wall. ===== From clem@dhol.org: The image is fairly well done, But I don't see the described subject in the image. I don't see that the subject is really all that much on topic either. You did a good job making the lighting work. The brazier needs either some discrete glowing coals or a few tongues of fire or both.