blender/glass

A bunch of things exploring glass and refraction; with 8 name series things, sorted by. interestingness.

parallax

This is called parallax for. worldbuilding reasons. These are all built off an X looking shape that intersects into losenges and i love how these turned out, especially after burnout.

1. Kinda basic and. doesnt even have much refraction but i put this and the next one here for completeness' sake. With a plane cutting up the color lights that have a super pleasing color scheme, kinda like the tritanopia colors. Feels sweet

2. Same thing but seen from the side. Looks weirdly like a physical metal thing, i like it!

3. The first one with actual refraction and with a different color scheme. You can barely differentiate the shapes, it's just semi-repeating patters, it's cool!

4. I'm actually using this one as my wallpaper as i type this. A bit different coloscheme from the first 2, but now with what i realized are basically the panafrican colors. Also i discovered depth of field in blender so some places are nicely out of focus! nice

glass cube

One of my favorite series i've done!

1. 3 nested glass cubes... if you can tell. This and 2 and 3 are too noisy.

2. Same thing, but we're looking straight on the outer cube's face, so it's a square!.

3. Again, but seen from the side now, and there might be a plane making the reflection.

5. This and the next ones all have a bunch of bars behind it! And they have smooth shading, hence the gradient. Also the number 4 was this but denoised.

6. 5 but with another cube inside. You can even see the reflection on the bottom side!

7. Same thing but a vertex faces the camera, so it looks like a hexagon! Some neat refractions.

8. One of my favorites (of the favorites), with the bars all tilted and meeting each other in neat places, especially near the bottom.

9. Similar to the first, but rotated and 16:9.

10. Here i tried somehting a bit different with a light background that i'd. probably never use. This one refracts some bars inside the cube.

11. Zoom into the center with a bit of rotation to make it more interesting.

12. Just a tube and a cube, all inside a glass cube that gives them a bit of a bend and a nice blurry thing. A bit too much noise though

13. This is 2 intersecting glass cubes meeting at a vertex with one's face facing the camera, making a cool square hexagon shape thing.

14. The same 2 cubes but rotated a bit and with a plane splitting the cubes and making a neat shadow.

These arent technically glass cubes, but they also have the bars behind them, so they're here too.

basic12. Now it's a sphere, and the bars go inside it this time!

basic13. Now a tilted cyllinder, and refracting the bars in neat wave patterns!

basic14. A bunch of nested cyllinders. A bit too much reflection

globo signoff

These are based off an old signoff id used by the brasilian tv channel in 1979. Made with actual physical glass cubes and towers moved around. It's kinda cool and. creepy. Number 1 was too boring, idk what happened to number 3.

2. Pretty simple, just a cube with a sphere inside it, with the glass faces splitting up and stretching the sphere inside.

4. The glass towers that appeared in the ident, actually exactly recreated from the ident. Bc they're lit up on the bottom with a slanted top, the top lights up too like the ident! cool

5. The same buildings now seen from above and with a slight grue color and a yellow sphere on the right, i don't really like this one

6. The same as number 5 but without the sphere! better

7. The same buildings now seen from alomst 90 degrees from the side with lots of cool refractions and reflections.

8. Back to the glass cube with a sphere, with a bunch of them filling up the screen. Maybe with less noise i'd actually use this as a wallpaper.

prisms

These i tried during the burnout after the parallax ones. These are all made of the same glass building block sort of.

1. 2 neat shapes where some glass surfaces are self intersecting so blender freaks out and makes them black and neat.

2. The more interesting shape now seen from the side and with a mirror sphere on the side to make it more interesting. Kinda looks like a modernist building.

3. Same thing now with a tilted mirror reflecting the prisms and the sphere.

nonagon

I like the nonagon, it's odd and interesting. This is using a kind of glass nonagonal prism but twisted so all the faces intersect neatly in the middle! Some of my favorites

1. This first one just shows the middle with the intersecting sides and the light shining from the side. Super neat!

2. I think this is looking into the prism's inside with a light shining through the back with a glass sphere making the circle in the middle. weird

3. The light's now shining from the bottom! Super cool

4. Looking from above again, you can really see the nine sides here. Nice and pointy

dodecahedron

One of if not my favorite polyhedron.

1. Just a dodecahedron with a point light inside it.

2. Different angle, sun light.

3. Now with a 16:9 ratio and another neater angle with 3 pentagons!.

4. The dodecahedron now very close to another sphere; looks like an asteroid about to impact.

basic

The first 6 images in the basics were. too basic.

7. Good ol' rough sphere. It sits on a plane that you can see on the reflection; but you cant see the plane bc orthographic projection.

8. Similar to the previous, but with an icosphere, and a sun light shining through it

9. Now the sun is shining from the bottom, and we see it shine through the top! Also, this and the previous image were basically remade but in gif form in the button renders page!