===== From agage@csee.usf.edu: Wish you'd mentioned what raytracer you used...very pretty. ===== From xeo@home.com: Nice waves! ===== From manorton@tcnet.net: Nice water, to bad I dont know what you rendered it in. ===== From prizog@hotmail.com: Wow! I wold love to see this animated w/ a cooler sky! ===== From jerry@hoboes.com: As you mention, the sky needs work: Looks like it should have a lot more red if this is sunset with those clouds? Nice water, though, and a really nice sun reflection off of it. (Did you ever read a comic called "Meet Danny Ocean"?) ===== From Sean_Hamilton@amrcorp.com: I like the sun and the water is awesome. Too bad you didn't share how you made it. ===== From gregj56590@aol.com: Sea texture is so excellent that I lowered your score for not telling us how you did it! ===== From amason@cs.uct.ac.za: nice! simple but effective. water looks great. ===== From justin@scpmcs.org: Fantastic job. I would have sworn it was a picture at first glance. ===== From vogelap@email.uc.edu: The water looks great. ===== From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de: It would be nice to know what software you used. And "NURBS" and "displacement" are techniques, but "Tools" means e. g. what modellers and image processing software (if any) you used. I might have given a much higher score if only I knew what you did. The sea sure looks realistic. ===== From pdolan@jps.net: FANTASTIC! I love it! ===== From johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu: Stunning realism. Very minimalist, but right on point. ===== From jaime@ctav.es: Due to the lack of the RENDERER USED info, I must suppose this is an actual photography. :) Seriously, the sea looks awesome. Yes, the sky is nice, but not in the same level of realism than the ocean. Anyhow, a convincent sky it's much more easy to do than a so realistic sea, but this round topic is water, I know. Well, it's a pain that the poor tech info don't explain a bit more the process (specially what renderer was used) (BMRT?). ===== From Varyk@aol.com: Well! Nothing but water here. So much like a photo I at first thought it= WAS a photo. The surface of the water close-up is rather matte-finished= ? I wouldn't change the sky or anything. ===== From djohnston@iname.com: Nice waves, although I would have liked to know what renderer you used. ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: Amazingly real water surface. What renderer did you use, Kodak? ===== From Martial@Biosys.net: This image calm down... |-) Beautiful calm, and great space. ===== From jesse@kesmai.com: The water looks great! ===== From ethelm@bigfoot.com: An elegantly simple composition! ===== From chipr@niestu.com: This wasn't POV-Ray, was it? Very pretty. ===== From r@138.102.96.24: Notable for lighting ===== From r@spider-th084.proxy.aol.com: Stunning, gorgeous image, seems very real to me, I have to know how you did it Notable for composition, textures, modelling, lighting ===== From r@slater.ed.edu.jonkoping.se: The best water I have ever seen. Impressing. Notable for textures ===== From r@203.102.40.35: This is unbelievable!!!!perfection in textures Notable for composition, textures, lighting ===== From r@dialup-78-168.infoserv.net: This scene is a very good example of how can nurbs be used for creating other objects rather than the usual. The sea is spectacular! Notable for textures, lighting ===== From r@206-72-253.ipt.aol.com: Pretty simple image, but it looks real nice! Notable for composition, textures, modelling, lighting ===== From r@tk156239.telekabel.at: The water looks very real Notable for textures