I once saw a graphics program in which an image (jpg, gif, etc) could be imported. Then you could create what appeared to be highly reflective silver(?) spheres and resize them, move them, up, down, left, right, forward, back and around, all the while the original image would be accurately reflected in the sphere(s).
What graphics program will do this? Are there any photoshop plug-ins that will do this???
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*Battery is charging again* Well in bryce you can upload 2d images and reflect them off spheres...or you can even use them as textures. I dont do this for 2 reasons:
I don't know if this adds any pertinent but the program could start with a real world photograph which could then be reflected in the spheres. The spheres could also be created with a click from a menu option. It was not necessary to begin with a wire frame object like in Bryce.
George..lol. Actually what your describing is exacly like Bryce...minus the wireframe part.
1) Open Bryce
2) Click on the Sphere button and it gives a wireframe <-- U might of remembered differently?
3) Click on edit textures
4) Go to the little button in the corner, something about import image as a texture. (eg. world)
5) It puts the texture/world onto the sphere (3d)
6) Press the render button and voila/wala!
Or, you may be thinking of Vue, Calgari, Blender, Autocad, etc...those also can do the same thing. (Never heard of Maya, so idk any info about that)..
Photoshop also does a fine job, but required more work...it has a nicer look to it in my opinion though.
Sorry if this didnt help much, but, it's all I can do. =(
I have seen images around here made with that app... I think this might be one of them: Lightwave image. I have seen others which are even closer to what you describe but apparantly they never made it to the perms, or have been deleted.
Wait, I take that back... this is the member I was searching for: ChopinLives. I'm not sure what app that is though, maybe he noted it somewhere on one of the images in his gallery.
In order for the image to be reflected in the sphere RAY TRACING needs to take place .. and this is no small feat ..
while I may not be up to speed on the use of Bryce, it may be possible that you just never saw it operate in wireframe mode ... There are several 3D programs similar to Bryce .. Lightwave, Maya, 3D-Studio-Max, etc .. of these, Bryce is probably the most affordable (between a $100 + $200)
HDRI = High Dynamic Range Imaging ... is, for lack of a real definition, the process of 'providing' a fake reflection to a glossy surface, similar to the way a professional studio flash box sometimes shows up in the shiney surfaces of an automobile
for the sake of example .. Figure 1 on this page shows a billiards ball on the right and the source HDRI image used to "light" it on the left ..... notice how the pool ball shows the same specular highlights as the source file
Cool... I'm going to try installing it again, even though I read in the reviews that someone else had exactly the same problem that caused me to stop using it in the first place. I guess I can always try the windows version if it still doesn't work.
What graphics program will do this? Are there any photoshop plug-ins that will do this???