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From bobfranke@halcyon.com:
Nice job on Venus and good use of data found on the 
Internet.  The scrabble pieces and drink glasses came 
out good.  The view window looks like it needs some 
glass, or maybe it uses a force field to keep the cabin 
pressurized.  There is some nice modeling here, but I 
would like to see more attention to the small details.

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From johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu:
What a stunning amount of work...mos people would have just used an image map for the scrabble board.

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From caleb@chemeng.uct.ac.za:
Is 'axon' a word?

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Nice try, but the scene misses the mark for me.  Where did all the people go?
Good clean modelling all around, but little details bother me, like: why are the Scrabble tiles exactly evenly spaced?  Where are the unused tiles?  Why is no score written after two turns?  Where are the reflections in the window?
Good textures.  Good Venus.

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From djconnel@flash.net:
I really like this scene!  The contrast between the 
spectacular view of Venus and
the mundane SCRABBLE game is striking.  A few 
comments:

* The height field on Venus seems exagerrated.  
Assuming 10km altitude variation
  on an approximate 5Mm planetary radius with a visible 
radius of 100 pixels results
  in a peak-to-sea variation of 0.2 pixels.  Yet the 
mountains in the image seem
  much larger than this.

* The lighting in the cabin seems strange.

* The poster is a bit to prominent.  It seems to be 
glowing.... I would make it a bit
  more subdued.

Still, as I noted, I really like the general image.  The use 
of texture in the
interior is quite nice.


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From east103@dialaccess.com:
Scene seems a little to stale.  Dirty up the place a bit.  Vary the texture
on like objects a little.

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From ethelm@bigfoot.com:
The planet outside the window is great. The items inside 
the ship are good but look more holiday camp than 30th 
century space ship. More subtle lighting would help.

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From blaineholmes@hotmail.com:
Way cool looking planet.

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From clem@dhol.com:
An interesting idea.  I like the choice of date.  Given the 
date, the archaism of the lounge furnishings is peculiar.  
As if Skylab had been fitted with Elizabethan furniture.  
Incidentally, the attitude of the destination and the 
layout of the lounge, as well as the well behaved fluids, 
imply pretty sophisticated gravity and possibly inertia 
control.  I note some minor aliasing, especially on the 
chair backs.  The planet looks a bit too shiny and marble 
like but not bad.  The starfield is good, but much too 
sparse for a view from space.  The other objects in the 
scene are well modelled, with a good but not 
spectacular level of detail.  Carbonation in the 
beverages would have been nice.  The poster needs 
changing.  As it is, it makes it seem that the real view is 
a poster too.


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From r@haka.saunalahti.fi:
The scrabble table looks good, as well as Venus, but the room is rather dull. It'd need some textures and other detail. Also some reflections from the window would indicate that it is indeed one, not just another poster.