Piranesi Holiday Savings!

[Gary David Bouton]

I contacted a Mr. Robert Rowse about gettin g a demo disk, he agreed, and further, had this to say:

Please let everyone know that we have Piranesi 3 in stock, and they can
purchase it online at www.rowseco.com/piranesi. We are also offering a
special for those that want to upgrade from Piranesi 1 or 2: Normally $330;
now only $230 through December 31, 2002. Our commercial license pricing is
also aggressive: Normally $750; now only $650 through the end of the year.


Sounds good, eh?


My Best,

Gare

[Gary David Bouton]

I contacted a Mr. Robert Rowse about gettin g a demo disk, he agreed, and further, had this to say:

Please let everyone know that we have Piranesi 3 in stock, and they can
purchase it online at www.rowseco.com/piranesi. We are also offering a
special for those that want to upgrade from Piranesi 1 or 2: Normally $330;
now only $230 through December 31, 2002. Our commercial license pricing is
also aggressive: Normally $750; now only $650 through the end of the year.


Sounds good, eh?


My Best,

Gare

[Ross Macintosh]

That's who I bought my Piranesi from. They had the best prices in North America.

I've attached an image I created tonight. It is a Xara/Piranesi effort just done for fun.

Regards, Ross

<a href=http://www.designstop.com/>DesignStop.Com</a>

[Gary David Bouton]

Nice work, Ross. You know, it looks like those super-polished, inviting desktops BlueSky does for the Macintosh.

Make a collection, and I'll point you to a high bandwidth guy who can sell them!


My Best,
Gare

[gidgit]

nice rendition here Ross... [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] and a good offer in the making from the sound of things... [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] right on [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[Erik Heyninck]

What's Piranesi?
I do know the Italian etcher with the same name...

[Ross Macintosh]

is a non-realistic rendering program for use with models generated in your 3d modeling program of choice. In it you render a special 2d image where each pixel informs the program about its relative depth. So it is that when you paint a texture on part of the image the program has enough 'intelligence' to understand ideas like surfaces and perspective. In effect it automatically creates masks and applys fills (textures) with appropriate perspective scaling.

It is possible in it to produce fairly photorealistic renderings. It does that without raytracing etc. - your methodology would be more like creating photoreal effects in photoshop. Where the program is marketed, is aimed towards creation of non-realistic renderings. For example creating the look of a traditional watercolour. It uses that depth info when applying the filter effects so it is quite unique compared with just applying a filter in photoshop.

Visit the Piranesi website and see the example illustrations. I'm sure their explanation of the program is better than mine. Although the programs primary market is to architectural delineators, it really is a fresh concept that might well be useful to anyone who does 3d modelling and is interested in the creation of images.

Regards, Ross

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[Erik Heyninck]

Right, I see...

In fact it renders computer-simulations of architectural drawings.
Must say I visited an exhibition on this kind of works dating from the time the architects still made them with pencil, pen and watercolours...there were unbelievable beauties there...
I noticed that the same resellers also sell VectorWorks. Some say that this prog is much better than Autocad. Not that I know of as I don't see any personal use for either...