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From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 14 Jan 2019 07:17:54
Message: <5c3c7df2$1@news.povray.org>
On 14-1-2019 10:29, Paolo Gibellini wrote:
> Thomas de Groot wrote on 10/01/2019 13:36:
>> I am afraid that, somehow, I am responsible for the heavy snowfall in 
>> Europe. Since December, I am working with Gilles Tran's MakeSnow macro 
>> and matters got seriously out of control. However, I am not sorry! :-)
>>
>> This is the state-of-the-art of the scene. It is loosely inspired by 
>> the work of French painter Jean-Pierre Ugarte: 
>> http://ugarte.pagesperso-orange.fr/ .
>>
>> In addition to Gilles Tran, I am indebted to macros by Brandon 
>> (isosurface tree trunks), PM_2Ring (Catenary) and Tim Nikias 
>> (Bsplines), not to mention the usual suspects: Poser, Poseray, Silo, etc.
>>
>> I have seriously reworked Brandon's macro from 2005, and I intend to 
>> make the MakeSnow macro able to write/read the calculated snow data 
>> to/from file.
>>
>> Don't ask about the title's meaning. I don't know. ;-)
>>
>> More to come later. Enjoy and shiver!
>>
> 
> A promising image!
> Interesting also the works of Jean-Pierre Ugarte. Some of those reminded 
> me the lithographs of Antonio Basoli (e.g. 
> http://www.italianways.com/lalfabeto-di-basoli-e-la-storia-infinita-2/).
> 
> Paolo

Thanks Paolo! In turn, Basoli reminds me of Piranesi of course, another 
of my inspiring artists.

-- 
Thomas


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