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Hi,

my english is not good enough to make long small talk here. But I hope, you will like this funny effect of room lighting.

Since a long time I observe the lighting and shadowing in rooms and I have ask me, why it looks so full of live - so much colors and shadows. Than I find the secret - we are living in camera obscuras.

Last, the curtain of the window was open a little bit only, I have seen the image of the house from the other side of the street - reversed. Here a photo of the image at the wall and the original house in front of my window. Can you see it?



So, I think, if we like to render a room with a MXI emitter in the window, it is better to use a big plane outside the window. So we get different colors in different places of the Room. I think, it could be a nice improvement. Here a schematic:

isn't it simple blurry reflection ? considering you point of view, it's logical you see the other side of the street, in case it's effectively reflection.

Very interesting effect. A new Maxwell challenge. Ehm, Tom, what do you say?

HD

lwan wrote:isn't it simple blurry reflection ? considering you point of view, it's logical you see the other side of the street, in case it's effectively reflection.

Reflection ... no, the wall is diffuse and refections are not up-down-flipped.

This is a nice usage of MXI! Thank you Micha!

Hey Micha,

thanks for bringing this up, ... it's very interesting!


take care
Oleg

Micha,

This is a helpful exercise.
As a matter of fact, I was just considering how one might recreate a gobo light effect without building an elaborate lamp/emitter/lense setup.
Do you know what I mean when I say gobo light? It's a theatrical light fixture used to cast light and shadow. It's useful when you wish to cast shadowing similar to say, the branches and leaves of a tree.
Have you achieved this effect yet Micha?

Steve

Hallo Steven,

I have test a gobo effect with a camera obscura now. It is not useful for a sharp projection. I don't know how to archive this gobo effect in Maxwell. I think, you should post in the wish forum. I would call it a projector light source. If we try to simulate the optical part, than the rendering need extrem render times. I know from my biased renderer this kind of textured spot light, maybe we get it in Maxwell in the future.

At the moment I would like to get a simple spot light.


Micha

Good observation.