Alex Kluchikov wrote:

>   Hm... Don't I have an imagination? There are a great deal, a MEGA lot of
> reflective spheres on checkered planes here! But I can not keep myself off
> posting another one. :)
>   Now some words about the scene. The sphere is just a sphere and the plane
> is just plane. 3 slightly colored lights and environment sphere are common
> for all scenes I made.
>   The real trick is plane texture. I found out a way to create checker bump.
> It is multiplication of 2 perpendicular sines (sin(x)*sin(z)), powered and
> normalized into range of (0, 1). This pattern looks like blurred checker and
> appears to be very suitable for bumping. If you want more detailed
> description, I'll post the source.
>   I'll be glad to receive comments.
>   By the way, I'm going to move to another city, Kiev, about 1000 km far
> from mine. I was suggested to become a game developer. I Hope, I will find
> time to create scenes and to post them here. Wish me good luck, please.
>   Sincerely Yours,
>   Alex Kluchikov.

It's the nicest sphere-on-reflective-plane image I've ever seen, anyway :-)
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Alex Kluchikov wrote:
> 
>   Hm... Don't I have an imagination? There are a great deal, a MEGA lot of
> reflective spheres on checkered planes here! But I can not keep myself off
> posting another one. :)
>   Now some words about the scene. The sphere is just a sphere and the plane
> is just plane. 3 slightly colored lights and environment sphere are common
> for all scenes I made.
>   The real trick is plane texture. I found out a way to create checker bump.
> It is multiplication of 2 perpendicular sines (sin(x)*sin(z)), powered and
> normalized into range of (0, 1). This pattern looks like blurred checker and
> appears to be very suitable for bumping. If you want more detailed
> description, I'll post the source.

If you look carefully, you'll see that the "tiles" appear shallow when viewed
at an angle, but deeper when viewed are a more direct angle.  Other than that,
it's a great effect.

Regards,
John

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Greaaatttttttttt: !!!!!!!!!!

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http://www.darkskull.net

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I love that plane

Alf

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> It's the nicest sphere-on-reflective-plane image I've ever seen, anyway
:-)

I second that. Awesome.

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"Alex Kluchikov" <klk### [at] ukrnet> wrote in message
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Beautiful render, Alex. Good luck with everything.

 -Shay

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That is probably the best checked plane & sphere thing I've ever seen. A 
simple concept, superbly executed. Excellent!

Andrew @ home.

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Alex Kluchikov wrote:
>   Hm... Don't I have an imagination? There are a great deal, a MEGA lot of
> reflective spheres on checkered planes here! But I can not keep myself off
> posting another one. :)
>   Now some words about the scene. The sphere is just a sphere and the plane
> is just plane. 3 slightly colored lights and environment sphere are common
> for all scenes I made.
>   The real trick is plane texture. I found out a way to create checker bump.
> It is multiplication of 2 perpendicular sines (sin(x)*sin(z)), powered and
> normalized into range of (0, 1). This pattern looks like blurred checker and
> appears to be very suitable for bumping. If you want more detailed
> description, I'll post the source.
>   I'll be glad to receive comments.
>   By the way, I'm going to move to another city, Kiev, about 1000 km far
> from mine. I was suggested to become a game developer. I Hope, I will find
> time to create scenes and to post them here. Wish me good luck, please.
>   Sincerely Yours,
>   Alex Kluchikov.
> 
> 
> 

if you create scenes for games as nice as this, you'll have a very 
enjoyable job for life and a good salary.

best of good luck to you

stephen

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\>   The real trick is plane texture. I found out a way to create checker
bump.
> It is multiplication of 2 perpendicular sines (sin(x)*sin(z)), powered and
> normalized into range of (0, 1). This pattern looks like blurred checker
and
> appears to be very suitable for bumping. If you want more detailed
> description, I'll post the source.

I'd be very interested.

>   I'll be glad to receive comments.
>   By the way, I'm going to move to another city, Kiev, about 1000 km far
> from mine. I was suggested to become a game developer. I Hope, I will find
> time to create scenes and to post them here. Wish me good luck, please.

I'd love to know which games so I can see more of your work!

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"Alex Kluchikov" <klk### [at] ukrnet> wrote in message
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[...]
>   The real trick is plane texture. I found out a way to create checker bump.
> It is multiplication of 2 perpendicular sines (sin(x)*sin(z)), powered and
> normalized into range of (0, 1). This pattern looks like blurred checker and
> appears to be very suitable for bumping. If you want more detailed
> description, I'll post the source.
[...]

Very nice!  Did you post source? If so, where?
I would appreciate if you do.
Thanks!

--Jim

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