#FLAT LOOK FOR WINDOWBLINDS FULL#

it depends on the direction from P to the eye, and on the normal at P. When you look at a point P, what you see is the point on that sphere reflected across the normal vector at P. You can think of the environment as a large sphere enclosing the scene from 'infinitely far away'. Since a small image stretched over an area looks blurrier than a large image stretched over the same area, the flat cube looks blurrier than the smooth one. The other answers are correct: the difference is that the smooth cube reflects a large contiguous area of the room, while the flat cube reflects three small isolated areas of the room. All you can see is white from the curtain. In frame 125, the sphere is completely flat. In frame 89, the sphere is getting flat, you can see we are 'zooming in' on the window. In this frame, the sphere is fully round and half the room can be seen in a fish-eye panoramic view. The material is similar to the question, but I set specular to 1.0 for a better mirror effect.

#FLAT LOOK FOR WINDOWBLINDS FULL#

I set up a hemisphere with smooth shading and a shapekey to transition from a full hemisphere to a flat plane. I made a short youtube video demonstrating this phenomenon. Notice if we were to add a bevel modifier with a very high number of segments to the cube in the original question the difference between flat and smooth shaded would greatly decrease. The smooth normals function simulates this bending of the normals while leaving the geometry unchanged. In the animation below, you can see the surface normals (in light blue) bend as the shape moves from a square to a circle. Finally, your image shows the flat-shaded square pointing at the curtains, which are blurry from light bleed anyway.ДЄs I said in a comment, CAUTION: Objects in mirror are closer than they appear! A smooth shaded surface behaves like a convex-mirror, while a flat shaded surface behaves like a flat mirror. The built-in HDRI images are fairly low resolution, in addition, there is some blur added by default. You should see that the flat-shaded cube gives a very clear and detailed reflection of the object, whereas the smooth-shaded cube gives a smaller and very distorted reflection. Make sure you put it in a position where you can see its reflection in the flat-shaded cube. Try adding a small object next to both cubes. As a result, your eyes and brain falsely interpret these reflections as being clearer and more detailed. Because you can see the entire room, you can easily recognize most of the objects in the scene. The smooth-shaded cube, on the other hand, reflects the entire room (or, at least, a very large portion of the room). The top face of the cube is a very detailed reflection of a tiny piece of the ceiling the front face of the cube is a very detailed reflection of a tiny piece of the curtains and the side face of the cube is a very detailed reflection of a tiny piece of the floor, shoe moulding, and wall. In fact, however, the reflections are very detailed. Since it's hard to recognize what's in the reflections, your eyes and brain falsely interpret the reflections as being unclear and not detailed. The portions of the room which are reflected are so small that they're very difficult to recognize.

Actually, the flat-shaded cube has a reflection which is more clear and more detailed.Д«ut why doesn't the flat-shaded cube look detailed? It's because the flat-shaded cube reflects only a very small portion (or, rather, 3 very small portions) of the surrounding room.

Flat look for windowblinds