Thanks Giles, this is inspirational stuff!

Mick

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Gilles Tran <tra### [at] inapginrafr> wrote in message
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> Taking the opportunity of the next Japanese povray book, here are a few
> links about Japanese povray artists. Most of these galleries are in
> japanese, so non-japanese-speaking people will have to do some guessing
> and look for words like "Gallery" or "Links" or "Ken Tyler", but it's
> worth the investigation. After all the pov-script is international.
>
> Tsutomu (Tom) Higo' Cyberbust Gallery
> http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nj2t-hg/
> A must see. It contains a very large number of great math/abstract
> renderings, all with the povray source. Tom has added two new galleries
> in the past months, one with startling uses of the crackle pigment and
> another one with some strange algorithm that makes unusual objects and
> patterns.
>
> Shirow's (Shiro Nakayama) Povray studio : a gallery (also with abstract
> or near-abstract renderings, ) and various utilities (particularly a
> grass macro that makes realistic bunches of grass).
> http://www.koganet.or.jp/~sylow/pov/
> Just look at this one http://www.koganet.or.jp/~sylow/IMG/facet.jpg
> (don't look too close or you won't see nothing !). I can't figure out
> how it was done.
>
> Hideki Komuro's page (already in the povray links)
> http://www.win.ne.jp/~kom/indexe.html, author of the Japanese povray
> books and of several utilities (animation and color management).
>
> Kawashu's (Shuhei Kawachi)' page
> http://www.interq.or.jp/blue/kawashu/mainE.html
> It contains impressive math stuff, particularly the curves in the
> Gallery 3. The include files should be available but for now they aren't
> (I'll drop him a mail about this). There are hints and tips though.
>
> Ms. Ehry's page : http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~e-ri-/
> This one is Japanese only, and non-japanese-speaking people will have to
> do a lot of guessing to find the gems, for instance this "drop in water
> effect", something I never saw before in pov :
> http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~e-ri-/suikan.html
> The source given returns an error... but I've got a fix for those
> interested !
>
> Fukui's Love Earth http://www.aay.mtci.ne.jp/~makfukui/indexn.html
> The Pov Tech section contains some examples and tutorials about medias,
> textures and objects, all in Japanese but one media tutorial
> (http://www.aay.mtci.ne.jp/~makfukui/tech04.html) is clear enough for
> non-japanese-speaking people.
>
> G.
>
>
>

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