"Greg M. Johnson" <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote in message
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> Pretty cool.

Thanks... I thought so.

> If light beams are visible, it's not in dust-free, empty space, hence the
> beams have to be so big and powerful to get where they're going without
> substantial attentuation (where's yall's imagination??).

> Is it media?

No, just carefully textured planes. I set the normal of each plane to point
towards the camera. If you look at it long enough, the beams start looking
2D-ish, but I think the effect is nice nonetheless.

> Stylistically, the idea of the refracted image of the ball in the center
cube
> is pretty cool, although I would like to see it a bit bigger. I had to
give it
> a doubletake, because I thought the ball was just in the closest corner
cube
> for a sec...
>

Actually, that is the reflection of the 3 frontmost nozzles. It does look
like a ball though.


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