This is a simple tutorial that shows you to render chrome-textured objects into
real pictures, taken by your photo-camera.

You need:
-A camera (optional a stand)
-A Chrome-Ball
-Megapov

- Put the ball almost to the place, where you like to have the 3d-object.
- Make a Photo (best, from far away with a narrow angle. Otherwise, you see your
self..)
- Make a second picture without the ball from almost the same place (best with a
stand)
- Crop the Ball picture
- Use the cropped picture as image-map for the environment sphere
(shrinkwraped!!),"no_image"
- Use the other picture as image.map for the background-plane
(screen.inc),"no_reflection"

have fun :)

PS.: Compare the image-numbers in the scene with the numbers in the uploaded
image.

####################################################################################

#include "screen.inc"

Set_Camera_Location(<0.0, 0.5, -4.0>)
Set_Camera_Look_At(<0.0, 0.0,  0.0>)
Set_Camera_Aspect(image_width,image_height)
#declare T=texture{pigment{
image_map {
  jpeg "3.jpg"
  map_type 0
  interpolate 2
}}
finish{ambient 1}
}
object{
Screen_Plane (T, 1000, <0,0>, <1,1>)
no_reflection
}
sphere {
  0.0, 1
  texture {
    pigment {
image_map {
  jpeg "2.jpg"
  map_type 7
  interpolate 2
}
    }
finish{ambient 1}
  }
scale <-1,1,1>
scale 1000
rotate y*180
no_image
}

julia_fractal {
  <-0.083,0.0,-0.83,-0.025>
  quaternion
  cube
  max_iteration 4
  precision 20
finish{reflection 1}
//optional...
rotate <frame_number,frame_number*2,frame_number*4>
scale 0.3
translate <.35,-0.2,0>
}

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Attachments:
Download 'chrome-map.png' (112 KB)

Preview of image 'chrome-map.png'

This has tripped me up, but I believe that the image of the mirror ball, and the
megapov "maptype 7" mapping are different. Paul Debevec explains it on
http://www.debevec.org/probes/


steradians. Also note that the mapping being used is different than the mapping
one observes in a mirrored ball -- the mapping we're using avoids the problems
of poor sampling near the backwards-facing directions around the circumference
of the image."

Cheers,
Edouard.

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"Edouard Poor" <pov### [at] edouardinfo> wrote:
> This has tripped me up, but I believe that the image of the mirror ball, and the
> megapov "maptype 7" mapping are different.

They are different indeed.

For the plain viewing effect it doesn't make a difference though. And if you
need correct mapping, "HDRShop" is what you want to go for.

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That explaines a view strange things, I've had in a view scenes.

Thanx :)

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