Tina wrote:
> 
> Well, I'm glad the results are up, but I do believe that this may have
> been the most unrewarding experience in my life. Not only did I get scores
> I consider outright insulting, but I also garnered an entire two comments.
> My interpretation of this feedback and lack thereof is that the IRTC
> audience considers my work utter crap.

I would not interpret it in such a strict way.  When voting I try to
comment on most of the pictures and i know a lot of others who try the
same.  But NTL writing constructive comments can take quite a lot of time
when there are over 100 pictures to comment.  

What's most difficult for comments are often things like:

- What did the creator try to achieve (both in artistic and technical
matter)
- What are the problem he/she struggled with while creating the picture
- Why was a certain object/texture/... done this way, what is the artistic
message
- How were certain things done

You might also want to read:
http://www.irtc.org/stills/faq.html#q5.1 and following points

> 
> Since I've already put in a couple weeks of every day work on my current
> entry I will probably end up entering it despite this, but I do think it
> will be my last entry into the contest. I'll keep viewing the entries of
> course; it's a great deal of interesting work and sometimes I get useful
> knowledge from it. But... frankly, I give up any hope of /entering/ the
> contest being useful to me.

I remember that a lot of my beginning work with povray looked quite bad
and would probably have gained less points in the IRTC than yours.  At
that time i did not have the opportunity to take part in any kind of
contest and could rarely talk about raytracing with others.  Anyway things
developed and although i don't think i'm an overall expert, i think i have
gained quite some abilities in this matter over the times.  

Since you have the opportunity to enter your pictures in the competition,
to ask questions and see others' works in the povray newsgroups for
inspiration, i would really take this rather as a chance.

Christoph

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IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
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