===== From tek@evilsuperbrain.com: You know, it might have been nice to try to replicate the sundog phenomenon using povray, rather than just this rough collage of photos. ===== From rgow@lanset.com: Rendered in PovRay? Why? I see nothing in here at all that looks 3d. Surely MS Paint could do just as well. ===== From fcueto@yahoo.com: Hmmm!!! ===== From ggargett@attbi.com: Huh? Is this even raytraced? ===== From maarten_hofman@hotmail.com: Is this a raytrace? Why are the dogs so pixely? ===== From the_dark_allies@hotmail.com: Quite the aliasing in this image. BTW, not to sound too harsh, but I don't think your using povray for what it was intended. ===== From klynn@telefish.net: No 3D models. Cool idea, though. ===== From sammyf@wanadoo.fr: as was pointed out in IRTC-L, you're not applying to the rules. Although you used PovRay, it could have been made exactly as it is with any 2D-Graphics package :\ Sorry. ===== From raytracing@grayproductions.net: A rereading of the rules, and more importantly following them, may improve future scores. ===== From jonathan@scudder.no: Nice photo, but not much 3d modelling or rendering it seems. ===== From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de: This may not be in violation of the letter of the rules, but it certainly is in violation of its spirit. I can give no points for this, as the image, as seen, is not really the output of a 3D rendering process. ===== From bpjackson@woh.rr.com: This is not exactly thought provoking. ===== From david.madore@ens.fr: This is a joke entry (in the sense that it is no raytracing at all - POVray having been used only as a pretext. The explanation about "sundogs", however, is interesting. ===== From dick@buckosoft.com: The dogs look terrible, they are too distorted in their enlarged size and the pixelated outline adds a less than good effect to an otherwise nice picture. ===== From clem@dhol.org: Rules violation. "Tricky" technicalities don't impress me. At least download the GIMP (free) and get rid of the jaggies if you are going to abuse the contest this way. ===== From p_chan@shaw.ca: Low technical score given as this image relies on 2D tools (paint, etc.) rather than being primarily a 3D rendered/raytrace using Pov-Ray (or other 3D program) to achieved desired effects. ===== From slone@hiwaay.net: This one had me laughing out loud for quite some time! Not really 3D but rendered within the rules of the competition. IRTC = IDIC! ===== From r@jerkweed.kiva.net: If you could have rendered sundogs in 3d, then this would have been a creditable image, but you took your images from other places.