Paper pools, eh? Never heard of it, nor this Hockney fellow. So I searched 
and found a place with a book by a Ken Tyler--
http://www.nga.gov.au/InternationalPrints/Tyler/Detail.cfm?IRN=62448&BioArtistIRN=14120&MnuID=SRCH
 --probably not the same person we know around these POV-Ray newsgroups. It 
looks interesting. Just not as good as this rendering by you Rene, IMHO.

I like the muted tone, too, as someone else said already and the way it 
draws attention to the deep water. Leaving only a fraction of the poolside 
visible works really good. The wet diving board makes it great.

Some criticisms I have would be that the water is darker than most any pool 
I've ever seen, looks like a lake; and the water surface might be too 
disturbed, as if by a non-directional wind, not by rain drops. Concentric 
ripples of random size covering the surface could be better suited to this 
picture. Yet it still seems okay as it is now, but I think that's because I 
see it as a surreal scene and so a lake merged into a swimming pool fits 
nicely this way. I realize you said WIP, anyway, and it might be changed 
somehow later.

I'm not exactly sure what is meant by faux polaroids even after checking 
into it by searching the internet. I thought maybe it might be about 
manipulating the chemical emulsion layer by pressing on it, pushing it 
around. I had heard of that years ago.

Bob Hughes

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