The rating system on Zazzle SHOULD be based on sales, not on votes.  No
sooner did I submit 2 images, and someone ran in and gave them both a rating
of 1, most likely because they wanted their own image at the top.  I don't
trust rating systems... I trust my own instincts and tastes.  You can tell
me that a bag of dog poop is a great work of art until you're blue in the
face, but if it doesn't do it for me it doesn't do it for me.  If you buy
into all that you are not thinking for yourself.

As far as this round is concerned, some of the results were surprising, but
I don't put a lot of weight into the scores.  Most of us enter because we
enjoy raytracing, most often with POV.  If you're in it to win, you are
probably better off searching for competitions that have a prize of some
sort.  Personally, I look forward to seeing entries by folks like Gilles,
Mick, Jaime, Christoph, etc... images like theirs are what got me into
raytracing in the first place.

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Doug Eichenberg
www.getinfo.net/douge
dou### [at] nlsnet

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