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For 3D computer art, I looked at the artist known as Chaotic Atmospheres from Switzerland. They have made digital art since 2012. As their name implies, Chaotic Atmospheres makes atmospheres and landscapes but alters them in a surrealist way. Specifically, for their project “Shapes in Nature”, their environments will often be large in scale, have exaggerated features of the environment being depicted, and some large geometric shape in the middle that is reflective. The reason I find their work so impressive is their attention to detail. They make both art from scratch and art made from imported textures, both of which are laborious tasks, either writing code to create the images or writing code to take the textures and create realistic environments out of them. Additionally, creating the reflection must be difficult, whether it be algorithmic like ray tracing or hard-coded into the work.
