Another material ball...

[DriesV]

Here is my twist on the 'KeyShot material ball' concept.

Dries

[Despot]

  Nice Dries, Did you use the geometry from Chad's second mat ball for the 'frame' or have you modelled this ?

Just curious that's all...

J

[DriesV]

I did a remodelling in SolidWorks.
I'll post my model and a KS package later on...

Dries

[Despot]

Ok cool, I've got a use for it 

J

[DriesV]

OK, I confess.
I made it specifically as a fractal light cage.

Dries

[Despot]

Dries... I am going to kill you 

I think you knew that's what I had in mind...

Lovely stuff...

J

p.s. I'm not really going to kill you

[guest84672]

Lovely - now it needs to be animated ...

[KeyShot]

Cool

[DriesV]

Okay, as promised: a KeyShot package ready for you to fool around with.
It has the full material ball (some parts hidden when you open it in KeyShot) + a nicely centered & configurable fractal. Oh, I also added a 360 deg animation on the light cage, in case you really have too much time on your hands.
Have fun!

KeyShot package:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw6BI0tv_sN8bGl0Q3FTMmcySk0/edit?usp=sharing
SolidWorks model:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw6BI0tv_sN8cUdkTWZPQktLc2M/edit?usp=sharing
STEP model:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw6BI0tv_sN8VG5tRF9vTDVmNmc/edit?usp=sharing

Dries

[DriesV]

All files are now uploaded.
See previous post for links.

Please, check the y position and overall scale of the fractal model. Somehow these parameters are not maintained when saving and reopening the bip file.
Check the screenshot for the right values.

Dries

[Despot]

Also Dries, I don't know if you've realised but the fractals 'D' parameter is never saved with the BIP, it always resets itself to zero... If you don't make a note of this value, your fractal will look different on re-opening. I tend to make a note and tag this value on to the filename when saving the file initially.

Check it out...

J

[DriesV]

John, I didn't notice about the 'D' value. Thanks for pointing out.

Anyway, here you have another quick rendering.
It kind of reminds me of a hatching maggot...

Dries

[DriesV]

I'm puzzled.
Somehow the area light doesn't interact with materials when roughness is greater than 0.
Even with a slight roughness of 0,005 the area light looks pitch black in the reflections.

I seem to have this issue with every scene. (4.0.74)

Dries

[Despot]

Yes Dries, I've had that issue as well, but to be honest it doesn't concern me too much as I'm not keen on the light emitter itself being reflected - I generally disable that option.

J

[DriesV]

Another version of the material ball.
Now with a bevelled outer rim and an external light rim.

*KeyShot package:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw6BI0tv_sN8dUhaREN0OUtKOVk/edit?usp=sharing
*SolidWorks model:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw6BI0tv_sN8TXhQcjJRWTRpTmc/edit?usp=sharing
*STEP model:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw6BI0tv_sN8eXB6QkRVekdCbnM/edit?usp=sharing

Dries