^eDimensional Caustics

Caustic Lighting Example

Total Running Time = 11 sec.   /   Total Size = 522 KB.

This video clip demonstrates caustic lighting effects, which allows an object in a scene to bounce its light and color information onto other scene objects. Notice the subtle 'glow' on the ground plane around the object. This is where light has bounced off of this reflective material onto the non-reflective surface below. This example clip was produced in 3D Studio Max 5.1, using the Light Tracer and specialized materials, and took 25 hours to render on a Dual Athlon MP system with 1.5 GB RAM