===== From roth@ens.ascom.ch: nice scene, poor dam. try using "grand" texturing for concrete walls ===== From djconnel@flash.net: The dam isn't badly modelled, and the boats a nice addition. The bush is nicely done, but is too clearly repeated. The falling water needs a lot of work. The water is nicely done. The sky is nice. ===== From castlewrks@aol.com: As a dam, the image is nice... as a rendition of hoover dam, the image is lacking... no graceful curve of the dam, the height and power of the real hoover dam is not conveyed by the perspective chosen... all of which would have helped the "interest" of the picture without adding the spillways which really detract from the image. ===== From sonya_roberts@geocities.com: Quite nice, though the bright blue of the spillways contrasts a little too much with the darker, more subtle colours of the lake and hills. ===== From kaustin@tgn.net: The trees/snow in the foreground are particular striking. Dam face and the water outlets in particular could use some texture, they are far too flat. The texture on the mountains is too smooth a transition. I imagine this is supposed to be a representation of the treeline, but the trees look more like grass. ===== From chipr@niestu.com: Good modeling on the dam. The spillways are too blue and perfect--some foam and some texture would have helped. Very nice trees/bushes in the foreground. ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: Boats and sailplane add lots of interest and scale. Scene would probably would be better without the spillways. But since they're there, how about a little froth at the bottom? ===== From arcana@sinbad.net: The water flowing down the outside ofhte dam should be more foamy and white than blue. Hard to render, I know. :{) ===== From bobfranke@halcyon.com: Very nice job on the landscape trees and lake. The dam needs more attention to small details. The sail plane and boats are the kind of small details that bring life to an image. Also, thanks for including the url for the DEM files, I may use them in them future. ===== From wozzeck@club-internet.fr: And now the spatio-temporal link: the "windows" in the middle of the dam are places to see the great wall through ;-)) Nice foreground (bushes). ===== From ethelm@bigfoot.com: Very well done but too sharply perfect to be realistic. ===== From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de: Really nice image. thin layers of water, however, like running down the spillways, do not look blue, but rather colorless and make a lot of white spray further down, esp. where they meet the lower water surface. The bushes on the slope in the foreground look way too big (esp. when looking at the boats on the lake). ===== From lpurple@netcom.com: Very pretty, well composed. Only nitpick is that the spillway water should be white, not cobalt blue. It's falling hundreds of feet; it should be all churned into foam. Similarly, the water at the dam's foot shouldn't be mirror smooth. ===== From r@cust169.webbernet.net>: The dam is good, the foreground hillside and bushes are very good and the sailboats are a nice touch. The spillway water needs to be 3d and more textured. The background mountains look too dirty, as if they are soot covered. Their texture also needs more detail.