Reflex drawing viewer

[perro_abombao]

Hi.
I just wanna share a experiment.
I made a 3 weeks exercise with my students from first year course in architecture school..... based in renaissance drawing camera.
They had to design, draw , and build this device...for drawing purposes in the next level of the exercise.
It's A little different of pinhole camera experiments because, a glass lens is present, and the light reflects in a mirror, and finally the image appears in a translucent surface (paper in reality) over a transparent glass(not present in this images)
Some of them knows sketchup and share to me his models...and, I try in max/octane, to see what happens....the lens is not exactly the same, I just play with a deformed half sphere, and IOR values in specular material ...and adjust the focal length.

[dotcommer]

Wow, thats fascinating that the materials in Octane are able to reproduce the same physical effect you'd expect in real-world to this degree. Makes me wonder about possibly bouncing light off multiple mirrors to create an effect like something out of a lost temple in indiana jones or something.

[ssouth]

Wow, thats fascinating that the materials in Octane are able to reproduce the same physical effect you'd expect in real-world to this degree. Makes me wonder about possibly bouncing light off multiple mirrors to create an effect like something out of a lost temple in indiana jones or something.

Like this? Playing with Specular Depth adjusts the number of reflections...

[glimpse]

Wow, thats fascinating that the materials in Octane are able to reproduce the same physical effect you'd expect in real-world to this degree. Makes me wonder about possibly bouncing light off multiple mirrors to create an effect like something out of a lost temple in indiana jones or something.

if we talk 'bout that scene where light ray was bounced from the mirrors.. well, You ain't gonna do it =) Think myth buster tried to replicate that with real world object without Hollywood cheating & failed greatly =)

Nice test Perro! =)

[dotcommer]

The method of bouncing light off of multiple mirrors is definitely possible. You can even see the effect i'm talking about in the mytbusters episode you mention:


And thats all I was thinking of would be possible; bouncing a visible beam of light off of multiple mirrors.