Interesting effect, but I couldn't reproduce this.
I used 2 planes: one checkered, the other reflective; the camera looking at
the reflective plane. When a sphere with turbulent media (spherical mapping)
was added, the reflection of the checkered wall throug this media was not
warped at all. I tried all media types (scattering, emitting and absorbing).
Could you post your source code or give more specific info about your scene
(media settings etc.)?

Margus

Joshua Sullivan wrote:
> 
> I was fiddling around with media, trying to figure it out (who isn't)
> and I ran into an interesting issue. It would seem that all light
> passing through a turbulent media are warped. When I had a room with
> reflective walls, the reflection of everything on the far side of the
> media object (in this case, a fireball) is warped and crazy looking. Is
> there any way to introduce turbulence to a media object without messing
> up reflections? I know you can see through the media object without
> distortion, do the reflection rays follow a different series of
> modifiers? This isn't a particularly critical issue to me, mostly a
> point of curriosity.
> 
> Josh Sullivan

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