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From: Paolo Gibellini
Date: 16 Jan 2019 04:04:57
Message: <5c3ef3b9$1@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot wrote on 14/01/2019 13:17:
> 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.
> 
A chain of artists... TDG -> JPU -> AB -> GPB -> Dürer -> Vitruvius...
:D
Paolo


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