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From roth@ens.ascom.ch:
nice smoke
I guess it took you longer to write the text than to create the picture :)

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From djconnel@flash.net:

The modelling of the refinery is quite good, and substantial thought
seems to have gone into the subject, which is somewhat original,
but the rendering of the rest of the scene could use some.... err...
refinement (sorry...)


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From castlewrks@aol.com:
The image has components of a potentially great render.  The individual
parts of the refinery are very nice and if the composition was reorganized,
could potentially render an excellent picture.
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From sonya_roberts@geocities.com:
Interesting.  The modelling is fairly good, but I find the colours (notably the
grass) perhaps a touch garish.

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From beliaev@utu.fi:

The text is too long.
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From chipr@niestu.com:
Excellent detail, very authentic construction.  The setting and lighting make
it look like a model, a diorama, though--some focal blur and atmosphere would
have helped to establish the scale.  Very nice concept--you are right, the
refinery is an often-overlooked achievement vital to our modern world.

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
This is an ambitious scene.  Clearly a lot of effort went into it.
You are obviously very familiar with these installations.
Do your lights have a fade_distance on them?  They seem to
be illuminating the distant hills.  This combined with the high
viewpoint makes the scene look like a small model.

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From bobfranke@halcyon.com:
You obviously spent a lot of modeling time here and the detail looks pretty
good.  However the scene has to look of a toy model.  I think the problem is in
the lighting.  The shadows are too sharp.  Although it will be a killer in
rendering time, I think it will look better with area lights.  I really like
the night sky and the hills in the background. 

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From ethelm@bigfoot.com:
The high viewing angle and the cleanness of the image 
give the impression of a model in spite of the careful 
attention to detail.

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From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de:
The smoke/steam is way too bright for a night scene like this. In reality it
would hardly be visible. I think a real refinery has _much_ more tubes and
pipes.

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From lpurple@netcom.com:
The modelling on all the little pipelines and distillation towers are great!
The only things that take away are the too-perfect lawns, and the lack of
street signage. Lighting effects are very realistic.
 


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From r@cust160.webbernet.net>:
Nice scene, but by including so much you had to lose fine detail and got a
"model railroad layout" look.  This is OK, but I think your subject would have
been better served by focussing tightly on (part of) one tower and giving it
high detail, while letting the rest of the refinery be visible as background. 
This would give a better sense of the complexity of the enterprise.