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A New PaleoNet Forum article has been posted. This is a special PaleoNet
Forum (aren't they all!) in that this is a first stab at a PaleoNet virtual
art gallery exhibition. The artist is Michael Amesbury and the subject
matter is a series of 3D renderings of various paleontological and
archaeological subjects. The (quite appropriate) collective title of the
exhibit is "Ghost Dance."

Michael Amesbury has been working as a professional graphic artist for over
10 years, has had more than 30 single person and group exhibitions at art
galleries in the US and Europe, and has works in the permanent collections
of such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Spencer Gallery
(NY), the Reiss-Museum (Mannheim) an the Geological Institute of the
University of Heidelberg. For the last five years Mike has employed various
3D imaging software to reconstruct the topography, artifacts and fauna
found in various archaeological sites around the world. Mike takes a lot of
pains to make sure his illustrations are as scientifically accurate as
possible. The result is graphic paleo. data in an aesthetically pleasing
form - always a winning combination.

The current PaleoNet exhibition includes the following "galleries."

Reconstructions of Mammonteus primigenius.
Reconstructions of the "fossil" insect Xenoraptor avis.
Reconstructions of the 0.5 Ma Homo erectus site at Bilsingsleben in Germany.
Stills from an animated flight through the Paleolithic cave of Lascaux.
Reconstructions of the megalithic stone circle on the island of el Lennec.
Reconstructions of a passage grave in Brittany.
Sill life studies of various archaeological artifacts.

The site has been organized so that you view a series of increasingly
higher-resolution images of the same illustration as you move from page to
page. Hopefully with will help with download times by letting you preview
the images at lower levels of resolution. Download times will be helped a
lot, however, once we can get the PaleoNet Pages (West) site up. Look for
an announcement about that in a few days.

As always the PaleoNet Forum site can be accessed from the PaleoNet Pages
(East) home page...

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/paleonet/

or you can jump right to the Forum site using the following address...

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/paleonet/Forum/vol2no5/Amesbury.Html


Enjoy!



Norm MacLeod



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Norman MacLeod
Micropalaeontological Research
N.MacLeod@nhm.ac.uk (Internet)
N.MacLeod@uk.ac.nhm (Janet)

Address: Dept. of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum,
         Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD

Office Phone: 0171-938-9006
Dept. FAX:  0171-938-9277
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