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2:26 PM, Tuesday October 27th 2020

I really hate to tell you this but you effectively made the same mistake again. I can see that you've started extending the side edges of the cylinders, but that's not the important piece that was missing previously.

As explained in this video and in this section of the instructions, what we're trying to check against the box's own vanishing points are the three lines we get out of every ellipse: its minor axis, and the two lines defined by the 4 points at which it touches the plane around it. You didn't tackle these at all.

Now I don't want you to sit there grinding your cylinders forever, but I cannot stress enough just how important it is that you read and follow the instructions explicitly. This stuff is confusing, so I can understand you having difficulty with it, but in this diagram I explicitly lay out that you should be checking the convergence of the minor axes, and of the "contact points". If you don't understand something specific that is being instructed, ask, but don't barrel through another hundred cylinders just to find that you missed the instruction again.

I'm going to assign an additional 30 cylinders in boxes this time, rather than the full 100. I want to see that you understand those instructions.

Next Steps:

30 more cylinders in boxes.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
7:55 PM, Tuesday October 27th 2020

Understood. I'll read over the minutiae again and start work on them.

6:09 AM, Thursday October 29th 2020
3:24 PM, Thursday October 29th 2020

Yes, you appear to understand how to use those additional line extensions now. Be sure to continue practicing these as part of your regular warmups (you can replace the standard freely rotated boxes with these) so you can continue to build upon your ability to construct boxes that are proportionally square, but as it stands you're now moving in the right direction.

I'll go ahead and mark this challenge as complete.

Next Steps:

Move onto lesson 6.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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