===== From manorton@tcnet.net: Water needs work ===== From Sean_Hamilton@amrcorp.com: A good theme, but needs some better composition. Firstly the 'action' is too far away. The jagged white line across the top is distracting. the water texture has a neon look to it but since you're doing Escher I can accept a lot of surrealism. I'm just too far away from the action. ===== From jasondinger@hotmail.com: being a fan of m.c.escher i would have given you a 25 but they wouldn't let me go higher than 20. i like this a lot! ===== From amason@cs.uct.ac.za: pretty cunning. colours look a bit simple and saturated, but maybe that's what you want. wasn't the original picture in portrait mode? maybe this one should have been as well. plants are nice if a bit regular. nice off-center composition. central feature is perhaps too small ===== From justin@scpmcs.org: Neat. :) ===== From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de: The illusion works fine but the textures and the background are a bit dull and unconvincing. A more dramatic lighting would have improved the image alot. ===== From johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu: Like the Escher concept. The cattails, though are far too regular...they look like they're marching, not growing naturally. ===== From mmandl@aol.com: The blue is a little intense. ===== From jaime@ctav.es: Hmmm... interesting. I've no yet figured how you can do this! I expended a lot of time viewing the pic prior to read the txt. Was very amusing! ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: Well, you're up against some tough competition. Clever technique on the "steps", but many of the textures in the scene need work (particularly the blue ink, oops I mean water). Good spread of objects around the scene to keep the composition lively. ===== From r@tk156239.telekabel.at: Ahh, another Escher (I did Waterfall this round). Nice idea, doing 'Upstairs and downstairs' with water and fishes. I think modeling impossible buildings is much more interesting than raytracing something which could be done much better with a photo-camera. Notable for modelling