Cornell Box: Physical Model

[Jozvex]

That's really nice!

You did a great job!

:thumbsup:

[playmesumch00ns]

Hehe cool! Now you just gotta model the stanford bunny and the buddha out of sculpey and put them in!

[Jozvex]

HA!

Now that would be cool! Or maybe he could surround the box with a sphere of transparent patterned glass, and create a real-life HDRI effect!! The possibilities are endless, and the universe is such a damn fast renderer!

(we're not making fun of you by the way Richard, in case you aren't sure)

[playmesumch00ns]

:thumbsup: How about you stick a big fat light shining straight on the chrome ball and see if you can get a lensflare!

[rendermaniac]

Surely you should have a shot with a shiny teapot in it ;)

Simon

[Jozvex]

Shake a dusty cloth around in there and create some volumetric lighting!

[playmesumch00ns]

Caustics! I wanna see caustics!

[rendermaniac]

How about fluid dynamics...

Simon

[TimC]

There's a couple I did here with caustics and sort of 'fluid dynamics'..

http://www.hypa.tv/tims/animations.html

I'm sure they're not physically accurate though :o)

cheers
TimC

[fraa]

totally amazing !!!!! Nice idea to push the cornell box enveloppe with a physical experiment ...

mmmh... make me think about an exercice for classrooms who want to be introduced to 3D rendering :

- divide the class in two teams
- give the team #1 such a physical model : a shoe box, a simple light set, some spheres / cubes inside the box, a camera obscura to watch the whole model. The task could be to produce a document that describe this model as accurately as possible with only one rule : only text is allowed, no drawing, no photo
- give this document to the team #2, some pencils, erasers and paper. They just have to make an accurate rendering of the model described (ie. what team #1 saw thru the camera obscura).

Basically, Team #1 is the modeler, Team #2 is the renderer.

Eventually, this "manual" rendering could be compared VS the original.

Well, i think i'd become crazy making such an exercice, but it might be funny though ...

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