Thanks Stygg & Chris. I just had to finish it off.
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Thanks Stygg & Chris. I just had to finish it off.
Second attempt:
Egg, why did you discount the use of the Circular Envelope?
TG is failing me still on any upload, image or file!!!
Attachment 124980 took longer to upload and build.
It is just showing 16x16 gapped tiles as the concept.
Acorn
Because it never crossed my ancient brain cells to use it Acorn!
The way I see the original(or maybe the way I would do it) is it using a photo with the highlights or lens flare on it. The sphere and squares are using a transparency to show the photo high lights with some squares being more of a solid color like in Egg's example.
Ray
Now TG is working again, my concept image:
Attachment 124983
Acorn
I found that the Mould Tool Spherical envelope never quite does the job. Here is a ancient Workbook tutorial for how to create a vector spherical effect. http://archive.xaraxone.com/webxealo...kbook%205.html
Distorted image is hard to get quite right and the perspective will always look little distorted.
This was made with 3D software in couple minutes for a comparison purposes.
Attachment 125133
Reflections are from HDRI image mapped inside sphere, that was made camera invisible.
For a bitmap version, make a square bitmap, high resolution and apply an Photo Tool > FX > Distortion Bump/Dent -100