===== From skipt1@aol.com: Abstract concept, which isn't a bad thing. The scene and lighting are on the simple side. Nice work for a beginner though. ===== From rgow@lanset.com: Not a bad first effort! Some variety in the colors between the 'desert' and the sky would help. ===== From ewaninthailand@yahoo.co.uk: Good to see you delving into some of the more complicated functions of Pov so early. Or perhaps it's just my poor maths that has my shying away still. :) Keep experimenting. Good luck. ===== From i-mcnamara@cornellcollege.edu: An interesting idea. I've always been a fan of mazes myself. Also, for someone who's just started to use pov-ray, I'm quite impressed with all the tricks that you've picked up on (especially radiosity, my favorite). It would have been nice though to see some more variation, be it something on top of the maze, a change in the height of the objects, maybe something above it all. Keep up the raytracing, and I hope to see some more of your work in future competitions. ===== From enrique.sahagun@uam.es: a good starting point in your raytracing future life. ===== From ericf@foothill.net: I like the different take on the topic, and I can appreciate the technical effort it took to get all those shapes into place. ===== From raytracing@grayproductions.net: Congratulations on your first entry. Looking forward to more in the future... ===== From darwallace@earthlink.net: This general idea, if employed with patterned heightfields, would work very nicely. That would be a good place to study. ===== From file: !!!! Back ground image ===== From file: Very interesting. The first thing I wanted to see, when I read your description, was the ground below the maze. I understand you want a feeling of depth, but there must be a camera angle that will show you that seemingly infinite space while also looking down into a crack. Some fog would be nice, to dim the strange effects of repeated patterns at a distance. Notable for modelling ===== From file: I've got an advice for you. You said it was your first image and it is good, but you have to work more with antialias. Notable for modelling