An Experiment with Caustics

This video is made purely for entertainment, and is far from perfect, cuz anyway, very little effort was put into it =X.

In this video, we look at how the Index of Refraction (IOR) affects the caustics produced by a transparent object. Caustics refer to the colorful patterns of light you get when you shine a light through a transparent object such as glass.

Modelled in Blender
Rendered in Yafray
Soundtrack produced with LMMS
Graphics made with GIMP
Video Cut using Flash

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• caustic
• caustics
• ray
• tracing
• raytracing
• light
• patterns
• color
• colors
• colour
• colours
• colorful
• colourful
• beautiful
• 3D
• CG
• Computer
• Graphics
• blender
• photon
• CGI
• yafray

[lcc0612]

Thanks for your comment!

Unfortunately my answer won't be helpful to you. I actually rendered everything, imported the frames to Adobe Flash, and then manually set a text box over the frames in Flash.

So unfortunately no, I wasn't using a script or anything like that.

If you need help I'd advise you to ask around the blender communities, I'm sure someone can help you.

[BnBGobo]

Stupid question, so forgive me:

The numbers in the text box raising in value like that, did you render them using a script or was that post? Do you mind directing me to a tutorial or guide, I need to do something very similar and I've been racking my brain trying to get Python to do something like that.

Thanks much!

[lcc0612]

Cheers! I'm glad it was helpful (I really only did this vid for fun =D)

[BnBGobo]

That was a great way to show off the affect IOR has on the caustic effect. Thanks for posting this! I hope I got the affect/effect right :p