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From helene.dumur@free.fr:
Your stone sphere is really incredible ! I love it

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From ph.gibone@wanadoo.fr:
Pleasant atmosphere, texture on the big sphere is great

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From rgow@lanset.com:
Nice! Good modeling & lighting! The tree shadows itself though, a fill light to
one side would bring it out more.
(*How does POV-Ray figure 19 hrs 12 minutes total?  Surrealistic clock...)





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From kitsune_e@hotmail.com:
For the stone: if the iso-surface came out well then you probably could have
just used a simple pigment on the sphere.  As it is I think the mapped pigment
is working against the scene lighting.  For a greate tutorial on texture
concept see:
http://www.newtek.com/products/lightwave/tutorials/index.html#ST

under texturing for dummies.  It dosn't look like you need much help with
textures, but it may be interesting none the less.

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From douge@nls.net:
Really good image, one of the top entries.  Good use of textures and radiosity. 
The colors work very well together.  Nice use of Jaimes lightsys.inc too... the
shadows came out very well.  I'm impressed by the grass too... nice use of
Chris's includes (he has some nice includes). 

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From awilcox@dreampeach.com:
It's a good image.  It's ashame you left a hard horizon in the background.




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From marlo.steed@uleth.ca:
This is a great image.  Realistic but surreal at the same time.  The texturing
is superb and the bit of atmosphere just adds the right touch.
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From kingofmycastle@gmx.net:
Actually this is one of my most favorite.
I like the realism of this surrealism. :-)
The texturing is great. I especially like
the ball.

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From hildurka@simnet.is:
Great image growing out of a simple sphere/checker board scene. I like it very
much, especially the way you made it, very original. Good looking textures.
Great work.

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From jrcsurvey@msn.com:
Nicely realised, nice idea, adding surrealist stylizations to a well =
known motif.

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From p.gibellini@teinos.com:
Very good, indeed!
Will you make a tutorial on your site?
;-)

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From shay@simcoparts.com:
Beautiful, and the sphere over a checkered plane is an 
interestting place to start. The sphere is great, but I 
think that making the plane into a chess board is 
creatively too easy.