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From digitalburn@totalise.co.uk:
Excellent.

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From darwallace@earthlink.net:
Good plan, but doesn't work with the sky.

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From pbourke@swin.edu.au:
Excellent job, good to see something different in this competition.
Full marks for originality.

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From panthus@xtra.co.nz:
This is the most innovative use of rendering tools I have seen and I am
awesomely impressed. While others are pursuing the 'reality' of objects and
light this eschew toward high-art and abstracts stands out as an example to
all. Fabulous, technical and imaginative.



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From dvnss@mega.ist.utl.pt:
UaU

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From marlo.steed@uleth.ca:

Different.... I think I like it.
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From douge@nls.net:
Best entry this round.  I like the idea of the colored spotlights... it works
very well.  Excellent use of blobs... the waves look great!  The only problem I
can see is the bright spot in the center foreground.


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From frepe@ifm.liu.se:
This must be the coolest and most innovative submission this round.
You have really catched the atmosphere in the original painting.
And the waves are just wonderfully modeled.

Perfect...



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From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com:
Yeah, I like it.
Very good.

I rated the top few as follows (overall ranking) :
1/ Moby Duck
2/ Shipwreck near La Guaira
3/ Atlantic Still Life
4*2/ Sinking, Le Grand Bleu
5*2/ Missing Maine, The Great Wave
The others are well distanced.

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From jrcsurvey@aol.com:
Nice idea, I have also been tempted to interpret this woodcut. =20

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
Captures the essence of the sea very well in a 
purposefully 'non-realistic' way.  Good use of colored 
lighting.  The oddly-shaped wavelets work well when in 
bunches, but are a little less effective where they are 
spread out in the lower left foreground.

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From sjlen@ndirect.co.uk:
Beautiful image, it has areal moving, living feel to it.  It makes me think
of childrens story books, dark winter evenings etc. There's not much more I
can say, amazing.  

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From delfeld@mailcity.com:
Wow!  I am completely amazed.  (The artistic merit is less only because I can't
get the idea of the original out of my mind.  However, I am still debating the
idea of 'copying' vs. 'improvization on a theme' (plagarism vs. jazz). . . your
version is substantial artistically, even without reference to the original).
You are right about more color, and I find the mountain in the background center
is a little bright, especially with the shodow next to it - the contrast brings
too much attention; and there seems to be a washed out (thus ambiguous) area
near the bottom center.
The blobs look great as waves.  With the rendering times, however, can you
select certain blobs to focus on, turning all the others off?  Is it possible
to substitute something simpler, like spheres or even triangles, for testing? 

When you get it finished, I would like a signed hard copy.  Please contact me to
hash out costs.