Spock wrote:
> For some reason I found V2 much more compelling.  I could really feel 
> the little guy's struggle, and some of that has been lost in V3.  Why?
> 
> The only things I can think of are:
> 
> 1. The closed window made it clear that the rain was out of reach.

Huh.  That's interesting, two comments about rain - it's not raining 
outside, so I'm doing something wrong :)

The window has a perturbed normal, and it's dirty (a layer of bozo 
pigment filtered over the transparent glass).  It never looked like rain 
to me, but maybe I should fool around with the normal more.


> 2. The bricks and plain table made the interior seem bleaker and less 
> likely to support life.  The new wall and tablecloth? make me feel less 
> sorry for the flower.

I was planning on dirtying up the wall some more (burn marks, water 
stains, cracks, that sort of thing) which might help, but maybe I'll 
just have to find a way to get my bricks working.

> 4. The checkered tablecloth draws my attention away from the flower and 
> dilutes the impact.

Good point, I should replace that with something else then.

> is nice (but the shadow from the radiator is still too sharp... what 
> kind of light is mounted that low with no shade?).

I point light source is :)  I'll try it out with shadowless, but maybe 
I'll just have to bite the rendering time and make it an area light.

> And finally if you look at it from the right angle the jar appears to 
> have been cut out from some other picture and pasted in here.  I know it 
> hasn't, but I think the texture of the windowsill (no shadow, no 
> reflection) gives a sense that the jar is just hovering there.

What I really want to do with the jar is use photons, but for some 
reason they hang 3.7 and I haven't bothered figuring out why.  Until 
then, I guess I could either use a media inside the glass (slow, looks 
good), or filter the light a bit through it (fast, looks ok).

> Sounds like a critical response but I like the image and hope you 
> continue to evolve it.
> 
> Happy Tray Racing!


Thanks for the comments.

...Chambers

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