Exploring symmetry, geometry & metallic reflections I

Exploring the near-infinite reflections of metals off various geometries in symmetric constellations. Here, it’s 4 metal spheres near a reflecting plane. The renders below differ in the type of metal (physically correct, “complex IOR”) that is chosen for each sphere, leading to various color schemes.

Inspired by an image by @kram10321



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And this is the setup:
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Scene is lit by the Nishita sky texture only

that’s pretty much exactly the setup I did too, nice

It’s called a Wada Basin if you’re interested. You could also add a bunch of extra spheres instead of, or in addition to a ground plane

Cool, I didn’t know it had a name :sunglasses:
I actually did all kinds of geometry to experiment

node setup???

Check the file available from the link in the first post, it has all the metals and more