"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "mirrorguy" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > Hello again, thanks for the responses. I don't think I quite get the photon
> > thing, but the trace suggestion sounds simple enough for me (no real experience
> > with 3d rendering). I think color coding a preliminary run to select some pixels
> > to analyze, then generating a scene that uses the trace process you describe
> > would be pretty workable. Thanks again.
>
> I mean, that's for a very analytical approach.
> If you just want to see what gets reflected through a chain of mirrors, then you
> could just apply primary, integer-valued colors to objects and see what comes
> out the other side to hit the camera.
>
> You could do several renders with an orthographic camera looking at every mirror
> individually, and see what those mirrors are reflecting.
>
> A diagram or something would really help specify what the necessary and
> sufficient conditions of your project are.
>
> - BW

The overall idea is to create images and videos with reflections of several
visually similar objects with labels distinguishing among them and their
reflections (with reflections labeled by path of reflection). It's an experiment
in machine learning.

I like the trace idea, seems like it will work. It sounds like I can just write
all the data generated in the tracing process to an ascii file and I'm set.
Thanks a lot.

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