Silver vs White Beauty Dishes - a virtual test

[jfrancis]

I thought it might be instructive to use the Maxwell Renderer to investigate the differences between a highly polished near perfect mirror-coated beauty dish (which as far as I know does not exist in the market), a typical silver beauty dish, and a white one.

To reveal the light paths, I ran a wall right through the center of the dishes, bisecting them in half like wall sconces. The virtual beauty dishes are ellipsoids - squashed hemispheres. They are not scientifically designed. The light is placed within the dish by eye, not at any special focal point, and no particular brand of beauty dish is being emulated here.







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