===== From denny1@home.com: Not sure how this is an imaginary world. ===== From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com: Interesting way to look at reality. where is the boundary between reality and imagination ? For pov, you'll have to work a bit on the wood texture and try some turbulence, and rotation. Maybe also a warp to make planks. It would have been fancier (although a lot more work) to input the whole periodic table by hand (hand coded text & colours). ===== From bobfranke@halcyon.com: Not really an imaginary world. This is a good start on an indoor lab scene. For improvement try adding more light sources and use area lights, after all this is indoors. Also try a smaller scale and small rotations of the wood grain. I like the modeling of the wide base beaker and the pencil it good. ===== From ethelm@bigfoot.com: Interesting concept. ===== From gshaw@monotix.co.za: Aaah, a chem lab!!! Brings back memories. Crystal is nice. Wood grain is a little too straight and too pronounced. try addling a little turbulance and adjusting the colormap. ===== From clem@dhol.com: The connection to the theme doesn't really come through in the image. That would probably require you to emphasize the strangeness of the ionic structure, perhaps by giving it a less prosaic setting. Maybe a salt shaker filled with copies of the structure rather than just little cubes. The wall needs some texture. The table texture needs some reflection and specular and, especially, some turbulence to modify the overly regular grain. The model would probably look better if the Na and Cl were contrasting colors. ===== From MMandl@aol.com: The wood texture has problems. Nice glass ===== From mar@physics.usyd.edu.au: Hmmm... interesting relation to topic... Nice glassware. The wood grain on the table could use some work... a bit of turbulence and a few more colours in the colour map. ===== From jull43@ij.net: Yes but it is also a textbook drawing.