===== From reinhard.pieper@web.de: Nice image. The reflection of the cut out looks a bit odd and the soft shadow looks a bit grainy. ===== From helene.dumur@free.fr: I don't think that this picture is "in" the topic, but I like it, it's a beautiful picture ===== From tek@evilsuperbrain.com: The world inside doesn't look like anything in particular, I didn't know what it was til I read your description, so the complexity isn't really obvious. The cloud layer is too dense to see the shape of countries clearly, and the red and green colours are too strong. You should compare it to satellite photos of the earth, which is usually subdued yellow, green, and brown tones. Also the idea of having an inverted world means it really needs to look realistic for people to see what it is (they're not expecting to see the earth inside-out. Having said all that, for someone who's only been using pov for 6 weeks, you've done a pretty good job! I recommend you look at the pov newsgroups to learn more skills (news.povray.org). ===== From marlo.steed@uleth.ca: The concept works well. This is a simple but nice looking image and rates high for concept and artistic merit. ===== From tomvw87@hotmail.com: Nice interpretation of the topic, simple, but it's really well done. ===== From file: Great idea - nicely executed. Welcome to the POV Ray community - hope to see lots more of your work. P.S. allow me to suggest some nifty freeware "Irfanview" for file conversions, gamma corrections etc. - http://www.irfanview.com/ Notable for composition, originality ===== From file: Notable for originality ===== From file: cool..