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1:55 AM, Thursday January 13th 2022

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you unfortunately seem to have misunderstood what the "contact point" lines are for each ellipse. It appears that you drew lines passing through one contact point for each ellipse, resulting in lines that run along the length of the cylinder. That's not what's depicted here or demonstrated in the video.

Instead, as shown here on one of your box-cylinders, the lines we are to draw here connect the pairs of contact points for a single ellipse at a time. Thus, each ellipse has 3 lines of its own, one converging towards each of the box's vanishing points.

I know you tried hard for this one, but perhaps in your eagerness to complete the revisions correctly, you still may not have checked the instructions closely enough. I'm not going to reassign the same quantity of revisions from before, but we are still going to need to make sure you can apply the approach correctly - so let's do another 10.

Next Steps:

Please submit an additional 10 cylinders in boxes, with the line extensions applied correctly.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
4:00 PM, Thursday January 13th 2022

ahh, that is unfortunate, i admit i didn't rewatch the video for the extra 25 thinking i got it from looking at the diagram. i really did just want to be done with these. Now that i have rewatched the video i feel a lot of things i remember being confused by the first time clicked into place. I hope i have gotten it right this time. Thanks for keeping me honest

https://imgur.com/a/GRe2Ljq

1:31 PM, Friday January 14th 2022

This is definitely better. Just remember that you can (and should) extend both sets of contact lines for each ellipse - right now you're just extending one of them, towards one of the vanishing points. If you take a look at the correction I made on one of your previous attempts, I showed two lines being extended out from each ellipse. While the minor axis extends along the length of the cylinder, checking against one vanishing point, the contact point lines check against the other two.

Anyway, 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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