I feel that my ideas are not very clear. I started with the fact that glass as a material cannot be illuminated by light in the same way as an ordinary opaque material. Glass and ice are completely transparent and can only reflect the surrounding colored world. And the brighter it is, the brighter the splashes of glare on the edges of the glasses. The glass models that are made here are very complex and are connected from many rectangular elements (parallelepiped walls). For example, in snowflakes, polished reflective surfaces will be on all six faces of each segment. All of them can reflect their surroundings like a mirror. But the transparent segment itself will remain transparent and colorless, like glass. It is important. Now what I used to make the glass-ice figures shine in all colors and appear colored. The only one who can do this is a giant billboard with a bright pattern. Why is the large size of this billboard so important? Because it is impossible to calculate all the reflections, the angles of the faces in the figures are too different, and the larger the billboard, the higher the probability of reflected light from the faces to the viewer. If the billboard were small, then there would be much less colored splashes on the windows, and somewhere there would not be at all. You can illuminate such a billboard with an excellent tool - a unidirectional light panel (invisible). It needs to be rotated along the X axis by 90, figure out how it shines (to do this, stick its butt into the wall) and turn it towards the billboard. Such a panel can brightly illuminate a picture on a billboard and in no way interfere with the exposed light in the studio. In the next picture, I showed the general location in the studio, you can see where the camera is located, how the billboard lights up. Now how can the process be managed. I have already said that it is impossible to predict reflections completely, one can only assume the overall effect by the color of the highlights. And on poor quality, select the necessary positions of the glass figures. Snowflakes can be rotated slightly along two axes, it is enough to rotate by 2 degrees and the reflections will completely change. You can rotate the image on the billboard, this also completely changes the appearance of reflections. Is it possible to use such a billboard in a room? Yes! After all, an invisible unidirectional panel does not change the lighting in any way, but it is possible to give interesting reflections on shiny and glass surfaces. I will definitely try to apply this unusual method, if everything works out, I will show you the result in the interior of the room.
other pictures on the billboard, small orange fish in the blue sea
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