Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Reflected Teapot

After a bit of my usual fiddling with this and that, I came up with this 3d rendering of a teapot sitting on a table and reflected in 2 mirrors. This was created in Autodesk 3dsMax.

The interesting thing about it is what the mirrors show. Normally, a mirror in 3dsMax does not reflect its own of other mirror's image. So you don't get the effect of seeing in one mirror, what is reflected in another mirror.

This animation uses a special technique explained in a tutorial by Sushant Sudame on http://www.3dtotal.com/ww.3dtotal.com/ and uses a unique ray-tracing material for the mirror surfaces.

Here's the same scene with the mirrors rearranged so that they are facing one another.