Forum: 3D Modeling


Subject: prism and spectrum

frndofyaweh opened this issue on Sep 15, 2002 ยท 3 posts


RimRunner posted Sun, 15 September 2002 at 10:25 PM

The problem here is the properties of crystal. The software has yet to be able to take into account physical composition of a material. When light goes into a prism its bounced around inside and filtered, so that when it comes out again, you see the individual spectrum wave lengths. Now, you can fake this. By using lights hidden inside the crystal, you should be able to simulate the effect of the refraction. Would require a lot of setup time with the lights to get the effect right. It might be easier to get the basic white light to shine through the crystal, and then add the color spectrum in post-production. Lastly to get better coverage, and perhaps more ideas on how to do this Im going to move this message from the Challenge forum, over into the Modeling Forum, since I dont see a lighting forum. (going off to suggest this one right away too). - James Challenge Arena Moderator.

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