Thank you for sharing your experiment, it's very interesting. I really liked these solid jets, especially in the company of a pretty girl). Yes, the method with cylinders is more similar to what the human eye sees. Although I am still sure that physically they are balls)). It's just that only balls are obtained on the render, not as in real life solid jets. It's all about the movement of droplets and blurring of glare when viewed. I will try to make a more complex chain of spheres and cylinders. So that there is a game of highlights. A mirror inside such miniature shapes seems to me an unrealistic idea. Because in a small size, the mirror loses its function, due to the large pixels of the render. You need to make a picture in very high quality to see the operation of the micro-mirrors. But I'll try and post the result here. Not soon, if possible. Earlier, I tried to make a jet using a landscape generator. I made a round room of 10 meters and stretched the top for a kilometer. But for some reason, with a transparency coefficient and a white color, glass did not work, the jets turned out to be gray and did not please. The balls are more cheerful and elegant, although they do not look like solid jets. I made them larger than a drop in reality so that the balls look like balls with highlights, the render also requires an increase in shapes, small shapes are not readable. I'll post the new result here later.
