{"id":7557,"date":"2021-12-09T11:26:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniepstein.com\/daniepstein\/?p=7557"},"modified":"2021-12-09T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:26:35","slug":"fake-caustics-in-blender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniepstein.com\/daniepstein\/fake-caustics-in-blender\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake caustics in Blender"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' width='584' height='329' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U7AZrXHEM-g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Caustics are those interesting highlights caused by light refracting through glass, water or optically similar media. Creating caustics in CGI is not only tricky and time consuming, it also takes a considerable amount of computing power and time to render. Being able to fake this is a useful technique. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I came across a great technique in <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7gMI8M91uWw\">this video<\/a> by Polyfjord and simply had to have a go. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caustics are those interesting highlights caused by light refracting through glass, water or optically similar media. Creating caustics in CGI is not only tricky and time consuming, it also takes a considerable amount of computing power and time to render. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniepstein.com\/daniepstein\/fake-caustics-in-blender\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2UnW3-1XT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniepstein.com\/daniepstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniepstein.com\/daniepstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniepstein.com\/daniepstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniepstein.com\/daniepstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniepstein.com\/daniepstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniepstein.com\/daniepstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7558,"href":"https:\/\/daniepstein.com\/daniepstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions\/7558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniepstein.com\/daniepstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniepstein.com\/daniepstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniepstein.com\/daniepstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}