How about only those who enter the challenge can vote? (But not for themselves.) Re my earlier post in this thread. Thanks for the encouragement, vasquex and AlleyCat. Yes, vasquez, I agree with you that the challenge is against myself. But when I spent hours and hours and hours working with metaballs for the first time ever for my entry into the last challenge, I felt pretty discouraged, nonetheless, by the kind of work I saw created by those who were doing Boolean work. (Nothing personal humorix - I really loved your image.) Even so, I recently posted in another forum to someone to look at entering challenges as being like playing tennis. The better your opponent, the more you will learn. I truly believe that. Guess I'm just having a "poor me" moment. Sipapu, the eternal optimist