I seem to be suffering a bit of creative drought.

I had no idea what to POV next, but when I saw Gail Shaw's post I thought 
"ooh I'd like to do a space ship!", then I saw Skip Talbot's post and 
thought "ooh I'd like to fake a nebula in 2D on the sky_sphere". So in 
addition to ripping off their ideas I also decided to rip off the films 2001 
and Sphere. The only slightly original idea here was the black hole, though 
it's no coincidence that the idea occured after I saw the current 3Drtc 
topic: "the black cloak".

Uh... anyway... The cool black hole effect is achieved with a refractive 
object shaped so that it has no refraction at the edges when viewed from the 
camera's point of view, effectively making it a 2D distortion. I then use 
several such objects at different distances to create the event horizon, the 
"sucking" effect, and the smaller distortion on the ship.

Other than that it's all CSG on the spaceship, and the nebula, stars, and 
sun are just a layered pigment on the sky_sphere.

comments? questions?
-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com

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