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From cyberjoe@cytanet.com.cy:
This is but an insult to the IRTC. A waste of my time for all of us.

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From cdsi26@bupers.navy.mil:
Someone had to do it.  You would have gotten better marks from me by placing a couple of objects in the scene and the faintest hint of light.  While there is an inherent fear of the dark in all humans that fear is multiplied by what we interpret as our anchor stimuli.

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From timk@jtse.com:
Not to get too serious on you, but there are a zillion things you can do _with_
darkness to bring out the horror in it. Off the top of my head, Stanislaw Lem's
description of sensory deprivation in his story "The Conditioned Reflex" from
Tales of Pirx the Pilot. Even just odd shapes and imagined beings moving in the
shadows would've been something worth commenting on.

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From jcheves@ix.netcom.com:
Que is este caca? Gimme a break!!

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From dlauer@optonline.net:
I can't understand why it took so long to render.
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From dwallace@lynx.dac.neu.edu:
Reminds me of the commercial where the artist couldn't buy a brush....

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From tina@ripco.com:
I tried to talk a friend of mine into entering an all-dark picture. Good thing
he decided not to. I'm kinda surprised this was the only one, frankly.

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Not much of an image, but an interesting concept.

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From peter@table76.demon.co.uk:
I think the textures need more work.  Maybe better lighting, too.

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From sjlen@ndirect.co.uk:
Good render time there, must get me a 400Mhz machine. This seems to have 
suffered a bit from jpg compression.  I'd be interested to know if you've 
rendered a larger version as I'd like to use it as my windows wallpaper for 
a while.


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From file:
ah... I see... or not
Notable for lighting


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From file:
You image is pretty much like a philosophy subject regarding the no-thing.  The difference is that , to experience the no-thing you have to be in the every-thing first. Thus, to experience darkness there has to be light, and viceversa. Your image is the easy answer.


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From file:
This competition has very few original entries, but luckily there are some.  And I must say this is by far the most original.  Great lighting too!  Of course it's not really an entry for a raytracing competition, but still, nice work!
Notable for originality, lighting


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From file:
They did that a year ago and it was only kind of funny then.
Notable for lighting