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From djconnel@flash.net:

Striking image, but very little of it is raytraced, and this is 
a raytracing competition.... the robot doesn't interact with his
environment at all.  Also, the robot shown is not an actual
engineering achievement.



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From castlewrks@aol.com:
The robot seems to be floating on a fuzzy world... the pedestal and back-
ground are all fuzzy renditions... that are equal in fuzziness, ruining
the camera depth while the robot is the only un-fuzzy part of the image.
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From sonya_roberts@geocities.com:
Interesting picture and concept, but I think too much of the image consisted on
manipulated image maps; I'd have been much more impressed if you'd used the
small photo of the studio to create at least a rough 3D model, rather then
using the image in it's very noticably "jpg artifact-y" glory.

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From chipr@niestu.com:
Good modeling on Tom; the background is too obviously an image map.  And
what's the achievement--robots made out of trash? <grin>

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Strange image!  I wish Tom were just a bit closer to the
camera so we could see more of the fine detail.

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From arcana@sinbad.net:
I would have liked to have seen more work on the rest of the scene. Maybe
actually 
duplicating the set, rather than using an image map.

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From bobfranke@halcyon.com:
An interesting image but it appears to be more of a collection of bit maps than
a rendered scene.  Also, if I read your description right, the image is post
processed... had to cut you down on technical merit.

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From ethelm@bigfoot.com:
This image is a bit of a puzzle.
It doesn't communicate very well.

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From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de:
You don't state whether the background was acutally rendered with the image.
Either way, it's not part of the scene and so I only judge the small robot
model,
which is not very impressive.

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From lpurple@netcom.com:
Great Tom Servo model; the background and pedestal look kind of flat though
(like texture-mapped Doom blocks). 


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From r@dial-up11.webbernet.net>:
I can't buy Tom Servo as the exemplar of a robot and this scene is way too
dependent on image maps for my taste.  The puppet model isn't bad, though.