Tuesday, 14 October 2008

3D Experiments


Looking at the different parts of the bike I decided to create an illusion using the wheel, which I felt would be best achieved by using mirrors to mimick the bike. This idea furthered by using only halve a wheel against the mirror, this made the wheel appear whole when it was viewed from the correct angle however looking at the piece from different angles created various visual effects.

This model was made using Maya 3D software, by using the various shape tools I created the wheels and the mirror, then by adding a reflective texture and by rendering using mental ray I was able to create a object with the same qualities of a mirror.

I wanted to look at various ideas for creating optical illsuions so I took a further look into 2D visual effects. For this I will look at magic eye images and also images which appear to be moving when the image is actually still, my next experiments will be my attempts to recreate this effect using parts of a bicycle.

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