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From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 16 Jan 2019 06:47:28
Message: <5c3f19d0$1@news.povray.org>
On 16-1-2019 10:04, Paolo Gibellini wrote:
> 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

Quite true indeed!

-- 
Thomas


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