Blend Swap | Cycles Light Dispersion Shader

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Fabulous prismatic rainbows of fabulousness. Not just RGB, THE WHOLE RAINBOW.

Sorry for the poor render, will render it overnight to see if the mess that is the interior converges properly.

Update: Organized the nodes, fixed some stuff.

Update 2: Changed the object to a triangular prism because duh.

Update 3: I don't like the lack of vibrance to the dispersion, upping the delta amount and seeing if that helps. New image.

glass Dispersion cycles Rainbows Prism

Kless

very cool I didn't know you can do that in blender.

Edited December 14, 2013
nburgin

Of course if you use LuxRender instead of Cycles you can get this effect natively, without heavy node setups. Still, this is an interesting case study demonstrating what the node system can accomplish if you push it to the limit, you have effectively implemented a new feature (dispersion) for the renderer using just the node editor.

Edit: oops, meant to post this as a general comment and not as a reply to the above comment.

Written May 20, 2014
Roninja

Yeah me too! That's a really great innovation/technique!

Written January 10, 2014