http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yrZpTHBEss&feature=relmfu

 

Pretty cool explanation about mirrors and eyes :)

Thanks for posting that. I wish my science teachers were that creative in their instruction. I might have actually understoon Physics!

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Yeah, but what I want to know is what colour does a Chamelion turn when it walks across a mirror???????

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Apparently a mirror is "bhleg"-colored.  Who knew?

 

Umm.  :unsure:

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an ideal mirror is no colour.  I tried to watch that vid, but IMVHO that guy needs less face time and more facts.

I thought nothing was actually a colour...

...apart from light. Which is every colour?

Okay that's gross over-simplification to the point of nonsense, I know...

So has anyone tried to do that mirror in mirror thing to get an increasing green tint?

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Now I did.

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:D

 

Looks good.  How may bounces is that?  I'm guessing 40-50.

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Quote - Now I did.

Cool. Is that the same or similar mirror shader as in your Dresser set, BB?

I was gonna use that for Geriatric Ninja Doris' Enter the Dragon style mirror scene...

WC - It was 50 bounces. Good eye.

MC - No - not similar to dresser set. It was just a single Reflect node. The materials I put out in my sets have render GC detection and auto shader GC, implement the Fresnel effect, have homogeneous Blinn+Reflect parameters, automatically manage reflection quality when you change the blur, and several other goodies most people never deal with.

To get the same using one of my set shaders, you want the color to be slightly green - I used 248, 250, 248.

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By the way, the guy in the video briefly shows a paper about the effect. You can read it here:

http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/raylee/papers/RLee_2004_mirrors_paper.pdf

The silver backing is not reflecting more green. It's the transmission of the glass that causes the tint. Some special mirrors have a backing made of other materials (aluminum) that produces a decreased amount of green reflection, which, when combined with the transmission characteristics of the glass, can flatten the reflected spectrum.

 

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Cool. Thanks... the green tinting would look good I think

First surface mirrors should have no colour...!

As BB says, the green is from second surface mirrors glass face.

@ypvs, my dad owned chamelions back in the 70's,when he put them infront of a mirror they would constantly change colour,im guessing cause they felt threatend.

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