This is a little job for a client (network security firm)
Its ment to be a graphic profile element…(not decided yet)
Please feel free to make comments critiques…
-Winberg
image:
Neetwork cable
epatnor
#2
Very nice! Good looking and great concept!
:applause: so far! Keep it up! (Is it finished?)
Marcel
#4
Very very impressive! I like the concept also!
The shine on the cable is very nice! Is it a specular shine, or did you use reflections and white cards?
One critique:
In my opinion the network plug seems a bit to transparent, and the index of refreaction is too high. I looks like glass, not plastic.
Maybe a bit more specular highlights or softer reflections on the plug would make it look more like plastic also.
Did it take long to render?
A very impressed,
Marcel Vijfwinkel
winberg
#5
The shine on the cable is a blured reflection, (white cards reflecting), Its rendered in Vray 1.07, and the rendering times took a while, there is some compositing involved…
I have to agree with the “glass” versus plastic though…
Anybody got the IOR for this kind of plastic?
equinoxx
#6
Material
IOR Value
Carbon Dioxide, Liquid
1.200
Ice
1.309
Acetone
1.360
Ethyl Alcohol
1.360
Sugar Solution 30%
1.380
Alcohol
1.329
Flourite
1.434
Quartz, Fused
1.460
Calspar2
1.486
Sugar Solution 80%
1.490
Glass
1.500
Glass, Zinc Crown
1.517
Glass, Crown
1.520
Sodium Chloride
1.530
Sodium Chloride (Salt) 1
1.544
Polystyrene
1.550
Quartz 2
1.553
Emerald
1.570
Glass, Light Flint
1.575
Lapis Lazuli
1.610
Topaz
1.610
Carbon Bisulfide
1.630
Quartz 1
1.644
Sodium Chloride (Salt) 2
1.644
Glass, Heavy Flint
1.650
Methylene Iodide
1.740
Ruby
1.770
Sapphire
1.770
Glass, Heaviest Flint
1.890
Crystal
2.000
Diamond
2.417
Chromium Oxide
2.705
Copper Oxide
2.705
Amorphous Selenium
2.920
Iodine Crystal
3.340
dunno which you need tho, but this is 3dsmax’s list of IOR 
Marcel
#9
Do some deep research (look at a CD jewel case… 
) and try to duplicate that. I think it’s about the same material and thickness.
Or look at your computers network plug. (That would mean being disconnected from the internet! :surprised: )
I really like the blurred reflections as specular highlight, works really well! I hope one day computers will be fast enough to do everything this way!
Greetings,
Marcel
winberg
#10
Oh, I did my research, I even hacked a network cable connector in half to get to the inner structure…
-Tom
winberg
#13
Thanx for all feedback, I am rendering a version with IOR 1.48, and a little bluring in the refractions…
-Tom
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